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T  O    T  H  E 


READER. 


HE  Author  of  thefe  Memoirs  be- 
gan early  to  diftinguijh  himfelf  in 
martial  Affairs,  otherwife  he 
could  not  have  feen  fuch  Variety 
of  ASlions  both  by  Sea  and  Land. 
After  the  I  aft  Dutch  War  he  went 
into  Flanders,  where  he  not  only  ferved  wider 
the  Command  of  his  Higbnefs  the  Prince  of 
Orange,  whilft  he  was  Generaliffmo  of  the  Dutch 
Forces,  but  likewife  all  the  Time  he  reigned  King 
of  Great  Britain.  Moft  of  the  confiderable  Paf 
fages  and  Events,  which  happened  during  that 
Time,  are  contained  in  the  former  Part  of  this 
Book, 

In  the  Tear  1705,  the  Regiment,  in  which 
he  ferved  as  Captain,  was  ordered  to  embark  for 
the  Weft  Indies;  and  he,  having  no  Inclination 
to' go  thither,  changed  with  an  Half  pay  Captain °> 
and  being  recommended  to  the  Earl  of  Peter- 
borough by  the  late  Lord  Cutts,  went  with  him 
upon  that  noble  Expedition  into  Spain. 

When  the  Forces  under  his  Lordfhifs  Com- 
mand were  landed  near  Barcelona,  the  Siege  of 

A  2  that 


To  the  Reader. 

that  Place  was  thought  by  fever al  impracticable^ 
not  only  for  Want  of  experienced  Engineers,  but 
that  the  Befeged  were  as  numerous  as  the  Be- 
Jiegers ;  yet  the  Courage  of  that  brave  Earl  fur - 
mounted  thofe  Difficulties,  and  the  Siege  was  re- 
f dived  upon.     . 

Our  Author  having  obtained,  by  his  long  Ser- 
vice, fome  Knowledge  of  the  PraBick  Pari  of 
an  Engineer,  and  feeing  at  that  critical  Time 
the  great  Want  of  fuch,  readily  acled  as  one, 
which  gave  him  the  greater  Opportunity  of  being 
an  Eye-Wit?iefs  of  his  Lordjhif s  Ac-lions ;  and 
confequently  made  him  capable  of  fetting  them 
forth  in  thefe  his  Memoirs. 

It  may  not  be,  perhaps,  improper  to  mention 
that  the  Author  of  thefe  Memoirs  was  born  at 
Ewelme  in  Oxfordfhire,  defended  from  an  an- 
cient and  an  honourable  Family.  The  Lord  Dudley 
Carleton,  who  died  Secretary  of  State  to  King 
Charles  I,  was  his  Great  Uncle -}  and  in  the  fame 
Reign  his  Father  was  Envoy  at  the  Court  of 
Madrid,  whilfl  his  Uncle,  Sir  Dudley  Carleton, 
was  Embaffador  to  the  States  of  Holland;  Men 
in  thofe  Days  refpeSted  both  for  their  Abilities 
and  Loyalty. 


MEMOIRS 


MEMOIRS 


OF    AN 


Englifh  Officer,  SSc. 


N  the  Year  one  Thoufand  fix 
Hundred  feventy  two,  War 
being  proclaimed  with  Hol- 
land, it  was  looked  upon, 
among  Nobility  and  Gentry, 
as  a  Blemifh,  not  to  attend  the  Duke  of 
Fork  aboard  the  Fleet,  who  wTas  then  de- 
clared Admiral.  With  many  others,  I,  at 
that  Time  about  twenty  Years  of  Age,  en- 
tered my  feif  a  Voluntier  on  board  the 
London ,  commanded  by  Sir  Edward 
Sprage,  Vice-  Admiral  of  the  Red. 

The  Fleet  fet  Sail  from  the  Buoy  of  the 
Nore  about  the  beginning  of  May,  in  order 
to  join  the  French  Fleet,  then  at  Anchor  in 
St.  Helleii.s  Road,  under  the  Command  of 

£  the 


t>3 

the  Count  de  Eftrh.  But  in  executing  this 
Defign  we  had  a  very  narrow  Efcape  :  For 
De  Ruyter,  the  Admiral  of  the  "Dutch 
Fleet,  having  Notice  of  our  Intentions, 
waited  to  have  intercepted  us  at  the  Mouth 
of  the  River,  but  by  the  Afliftance  of  a 
great  Fog  we  pafs'd  Trover  before  he  was 
aware  of  it;  and  thus  he  mifcarried,  with 
the  poor  Advantage  of  taking  [only  one 
fmall  Tender. 

A  D  a  y  or  two  after  the  joining  of  the 
'English  and  Trench,  we  failed  dire&ly  to- 
wards the  Dutch  Coaft,  where  we  foon 
got  fight  of  their  Fleet  -y  a  Sand  called  the 
Galloper  lying  between.  The  Dutch 
feem  a  willing  there  to  exped:  an  Attack 
from  us :  But  in  regard  the  Charles  Man 
of  War  had  been  loft  on  thofe  Sands  the 
War  before;  and  that  our  Ships  drawing 
more  Water  than  thofe  of  the  Enemy,  an 
Engagement  might  be  render'd  very  difad- 
vantagious ;  it  was  refoiv'd  in  a  Council  of 
War  to  avoid  coming  to  a  Battle  for  the 
prefent,  and  to  fail  diredily  for  Solebayy 
which  was  accordingly  put  in  Execution. 

W  e  had  not  been  in  Solebay  above  four 
or  five  Days,  when  De  Ruyter,  hearing  of 
it,  made  his  Signal  for  failing  in  order  to 
furprize  us  ;  and  he  had  certainly  had  his 
Aim,  had  there  been  any  Breeze  of  Wind 
to  favour  him.  But  though  they  made  ufe 
of  §U  their  Sailc5  there  was  fo  little  Air  ftir- 
2  ring 


[  3  1 

ring,  that  we  could  fee  their  Fleet  making 
towards  us  long  before  they  came  up  ,-  not- 
withftanding  which,  our  Admirals  found 
difficulty  enough  to  form  their  Ships  into  a 
Line  of  Battle,  foas  to  be  ready  to  receive 
the  Enemy. 

I  t  was  about  Four  in  the  Morning  of  the  EngHfh 
28th  of  May,  being  Tuefday  in  Wbitfon^f^ 
Week,  when  we  firft  made  the  Difco very *  gag'd  m 
and  about  Eight  the  fame  Morning  theSokbay. 
Blue   Squadron,    under  the  Command  of 
the  Earl  of  Sandwich,    began  to  engage 
with  Admiral  Van  Ghent,  who  command- 
ed the  Amflerdam  Squadron,-  and  about 
Nine  the  whole  Fleets  were  under  a  general 
Engagement.     The  Fight  lafted  till  Ten  at 
Night,  and  with  equal  Fury  on  all  Sides, 
the  French  excepted,  who  appeared  Ration- 
ed there  rather  as  Spectators  than  Parties  $ 
and  as  unwilling  to  be  too  much  upon  the 
Offenfive,    for  fear    of    offending  them- 
felves. 

During  the  Fight  the  Englijh  Admi- 
ral had  two  Ships  difabled  under  him  ;  and 
was  obliged  about  Four  in  the  Afternoon 
to  remove  himfelf  a  third  Time  into  the 
London,  where  he  remain'd  all  the  reft  of 
the  Fight,  and  till  next  Morning.  Never* 
thelefs,  on  his  Entrance  upon  the  London, 
which  was  the  Ship  I  was  in,  and  on  our 
Hoifting  the  Standard,  De  -Rttyter  and  his 
Squadron  feem'd  to  double  their  Fire  upon 
B  2  her, 


[  +  ] 

her,  as  if  they  refolv'd  to  blow  her  out  of 
the  Water.  Notwithftanding  all  which  , 
the  Duke  of  Tork  remain'd  all  the  time  up- 
on Quarter  Deck,  and  as  the  Bullets  plenti- 
fully whizz'd  around  him,  would  often  rub 
his  Hands,  and  cry,  Sprage*  Sprage*  they 
follow  us  ftilL  I  am  very  fenfible  later  Times 
have  not  been  over  favourable  in  their  Sen- 
timents of  that  unfortunate  Prince's  Valour, 
yet  I  cannot  omit  the  doing  a  Piece  of  Ju- 
stice to  his  Memory,  in  relating  a  Matter 
of  Fa£t,  of  which  my  own  Eyes  were  Wit- 
neffes,  and  faying,  That  if  Intrepidity,  and 
Undauntednefs,  may  be  reckon  a  any  Parts 
of  Courage,  no  Man  in  the  Fleet  better  de- 
ferv'd  the  Title  of  Couragious,  or  behav'd 
himfelf  with  more  Gallantry  than  he  did. 

The  Englijb  loft  the  Royal  James* 
commanded  by  the  Earl  of  'Sandwich* 
which  about  'twelve  (after  the  ftrenuous 
Endeavours  of  her  Sailors  to  difengage  her 
from  two  Dutch  Fire  Ships  plac'd  on  her, 
one  athwart  her  Hawfers,  the  other  on  her 
Star-board  Side)  took  Fire,  blew  up,  and 
perifh'd ;  and  with  her  a  great  many  brave 
Gentlemen,  as  well  as  Sailors ;  and  amongft 
the  reft  the  Earl  himfelf,  concerning  whom 
I  fliall  further  add,  that  in  my  PaiTage  from 
Harwich  to  the  Sri  11*  a  Year  or  two  af- 
ter, the  Matter  of  the  Pacquet  Boat  told 
me,  That  having  obferv'd  a  great  Flock 
of  Gulls  hovering  in  one  particular  Part  of 

the 


C  5  ]  ■ 

*he  Sea,  he  order'd  his  Boat  to  make  up  to 
it;  when  difcovering  a  Corpfe,  the  Sailors 
would  have  return'd  it  to  the  Sea,  as  the 
Corpfe  of  a  'Dutch  Man ;  but  keeping  it 
in  his  Boat,  it  proved  to  be  that  of  the 
Earl  of  Sandwich.  There  was  found 
about  him  between  twenty  and  thirty  Gui- 
neas, fome  Silver,  and  his  Gold  Watch  ; 
reftoring  which  to  his  Lady,  fhe  kept  the 
Watch,  but  rewarded  their  Honefty  with 
all  the  Gold  and  Silver. 

This  was  the  only  Ship  the  EngliJJj  loft 
in  this  long  Engagement.  For  although 
the  Katherine  was  taken,  and  her  Com- 
mander, Sir  John  Cbicbeley,  made  Prifo- 
ner,  her  Sailors  foon  after  finding  the  Op- 
portunity they  had  watch'd  for,  feizd  all 
the  Dutch  Sailors,  who  had  been  put  in 
upon  them,  and  brought  the  Ship  back  to 
our  own  Fleet ,  together  with  all  the 
Dutch  Men  Prifoners ;  for  which,  as  they 
deferv'd,  they  were  well  rewarded.  This 
is  the  fame  Ship  which  the  Earl  of  Mul- 
grave  (afterwards  Duke  of  Buckingham) 
commanded  the  next  Sea  Fight,  and  has 
caus'd  to  be  painted  in  his  Houfe  in  St. 
James's  Tark. 

I  Must  not  omit  one  very  remark- 
able Occurrence  which  happened  in  this 
Ship,  There  was  a  Gentleman  aboard  her, 
a  Voluntier,  of  a  very  fine  Eftate,  general- 
ly known  by  the  Name  of  Hodge  Vaughan. 
B  3  This 


[6] 

This  Perfon  receiv'd,  in  the  beginning  of 
the  Fight,  a  confiderable  Wound,  which 
the  great  Confufion,  during  the  Battle, 
would  not  give  them  leave  to  inquire  into  ,• 
fo  he  was  carried  out  of  the  Way,  and  dif- 
pofed  of  in  the  Hold.  They  had  fome 
Hogs  aboard  ,  which  the  Sailor ,  under 
whofe  Care  they  were,  had  negleded  to 
feed  j  thefe  Hogs,  hungry  as  they  were, 
found  out,  and  fell  upon  the  wounded  Per- 
fon, and  between  dead  and  alive  eat  him 
up  to  his  very  Scull,  which,  after  the 
Fight  was  over,  and  the  Ship  retaken,  as 
before,  was  all  that  could  be  found  of 
him. 

Another  Thing,  lefs  to  be  account- 
ed for,  happen'd  to  a  Gentleman  Voluntier 
who  was  aboard  the  fame  Ship  with  my 
felf.  He  was  of  known  perfonal  Courage, 
in  the  vulgar  Notion^pf  it,  his  Sword  ne- 
ver having  fail'd  him  in  many  private 
Duels.  But  notwithftanding  all  his  Land- 
mettle  ,  it  was  obferv'd  of  him  at  Sea, 
that  when  ever  the  Bullets  whizz'd  over 
his  Head,  or  any  way  incommoded  his 
Ears,  he  immediately  quitted  the  Deck,  and 
ran  down  into  the  Hold.  At  firft  he  was 
gently  reproach'd  ;  but  after  many  Repeti- 
tions he  was  laugh'd  at,  and  began  to  be 
defpis'd  ,-  fenfible  of  which,  as  a  Teftimo- 
nial  of  his  Valour,  he  made  it  his  Requeft 
to  be  ty'd  to  the  Main  Mart.     But  had  it 

been 


C  7  I 

been  granted  him,  I  cannot  fee  any  Title 
he  could  have  pleaded  from  hence,  to  true 
Magnanimity ;  fince  to  be  ty'd  from  run- 
ning away  can  import  nothing  lefs,  than 
that  he  would  have  £1111  continued  thefe 
Signs  of  Cowardice,  if  he  had  not  been  pre- 
vented. There  is  a  Bravery  of  Mind 
which  I  fanfy  few  of  thofe  Gentlemen 
Duellifts  are  poffefs'd  of  True  Courage 
cannot  proceed  from  what  Sir  Walter  Ra- 
leigh  finely  calls  the  Art  or  Thilofophy  of 
Quarrel.  No !  It  muft  be  the  Iffue  of 
Principle  ,  and  can  have  no  other  Bafis 
than  a  fteady  Tenet  of  Religion.  This 
will  appear  more  plain,  if  thofe  Artifts  in 
Murder  will  give  themfelves  leave  cooly 
to  confider,  and  anfwer  me  this  Queftion^ 
Why  he  that  had  ran  fo  many  Rifques  at 
his  Sword's  Point,  fhould  be  fo  ihamefullye 
intimidated  at  the  Whiz  of  a  Cannon 
Ball? 

The  Names  of  thofe  Englifli  Gentlemen  who- 
loft  their  Lives,  as  I  remember,  in  this 
Engagement. 

Commissioner  Cox,  Captain  of  the 
Royal  Trince,  under  the  Command  of  the 
Admiral ;  and  Mr.  Travanian,  Gentleman 
to  the  Duke  otTork  j  Mr.  jDigby,  Captain 
of  the  Henry i  fecond  Son  to  the  Earl  of 
Sriftol ;  Sir  Fletchvile  Ho/lis,  Captain  of 
B  4  the 


[8] 

the  Cambridge,  who  loft  one  of  his  Arms 
in  the  War  before,  and  his  Life  in  this  ; 
Captain  Saddleton ,  of  the  Dartmouth ; 
the  Lord  Maidftone,  Son  to  the  Earl  of 
Winchelfea,  a  Voluntier  on  board  the 
Charles,  commanded  by  Sir  John  Harman, 
Vice-Admiral  of  the  Red. 

Sir  Thilip  Carteret,  Mr.  Herbert,  Mr. 
Cotterel,  Mr.  Peyton,  Mr.  Gofe,  with  fe- 
veral  other  Gentlemen  unknown  to  me,  loft 
their  Lives  with  the  Earl  of  Sandwichy  on 
board  the  Royal 'James  ;  Islv.Vaughan,  on 
board  the  Katherine^  commanded  by  Sir 
John  Chicheky. 

In  this  Engagement,  Sir  George  Rook 
was  youngeft  Lieutenant  to  Sir  Edward 
Sprage ;  Mr.  Rtijjel,  afterwards  Earl  of 
Or  ford,  was  Captain  of  a  -fmall  Fifth  Rate, 
called  the  Phoenix ;  Mr.  Herbert,  after- 
wards Earl  of  Torrington,  was  Captain  of 
a  fmall  Fourth  Rate,  called  the  Monck; 
Sir  Harry  Duttcn  Colt,  who  was  on  board 
the  ViUory,  commanded  by  the  Earl  of 
OJJlry,  is  the  only  Man  now  living  that  I 
can  remember  was  in  this  Engagement. 

But  to  proceed,  the  Dutch  had  one 
Man  of  War  funk,  though  fo  near  the 
Shore ,  that  I  faw  fome  part  of  her 
Main  Maft  remain  above  Water ;  with 
their  Admiral  Van  Ghent,  who  was  flain 
in  the  clofe  Engagement  with  the  Earl  of 

Sand- 


C93 

Sandwich.  This  Engagement  lafted  four- 
teen Hours,  and  was  look'd  upon  the 
greateft  that  ever  was  fought  between  the 
Engliflj  and  the  Hollander. 

I  cannot  here  omit  one  Thing,  which 
to  fome  may  feem  trifling  •  though  I  am  apt 
to  think  our  Naturalifts  may  have  a  diffe- 
rent Opinion  of  it,  and  find  it  afford  their 
Faniles  no  undiverting  Employment  in 
more  curious,  and  lefs  perilous  Reflexions. 
We  had  on  board  the  London^  where,  as 
I  have  faid,  I  was  a  Voluntier,  a  great 
Number  of  Pidgeons,  of  which  our  Com- 
mander was  very  fond.  Thefe,  on  the 
firft  firing  of  our  Cannon,  difpers'd,  and 
flew  away,  and  were  feen  no  where  near 
us  during  the  Fight.  The  next  Day  it 
blew  a  brisk  Gale,  and  drove  our  Fleet 
fome  Leagues  to  the  Southward  of  the 
Place  where  they  forfook  our  Ship,  yet 
the  Day  after  they  all  returned  fafe  aboard ; 
not  in  one  Flock,  but  in  fmall  Parties  of 
four  or  five  at  a  Time.  Some  Perfons  at 
that  Time  aboard  the  Ship  admiring  at  the 
Manner  of  their  Return,  and  fpeaking  of 
it  with  fome  Surprize,  Sir  Edward  Sprage 
told  them,  That  he  brought  thofe  Pid- 
geons with  him  from  the  Streights ;  and 
that  when,  purfuant  to  his  Order,  he  left 
the  Revenge  Man  of  War,  to  go  aboard 
the  London^  all  thofe  Pidgeons,  of  their 
own  accord,  and  without  the  Trouble  or 

Care 


[IO] 

Care  of  carrying,  left  the  Revenge  like- 
wife,  and  removed  with  the  Sailors  on 
board  the  London,  where  I  faw  them ;  All 
which  many  of  the  Sailors  afterwards 
confirm'd  to  me.  What  Sort  of  Inftinft 
this  could  proceed  from,  I  leave  to  the  Cu- 
rious. 

Soon  after  this  Sea  Engagement  I  left 
the  Fleet.  And  the  Parliament  the  Winter 
following,  manifefting  their  Refentments 
againft  two  of  the  Plenipotentiaries,  viz* 
^Buckingham  and  Arlington,  who  had  been 
fcnt  over  into  Holland y  and  expreiTmg, 
withal.,  their  great  Umbrage  taken  at  the 
prodigious  Progrefs  of  the  French  Arms  in 
the  United  'Provinces ;  and  warmly  remon- 
flrating  the  inevitable  Danger  attending 
England  in  their  Ruin.  King  Charles 
from  all  this,  and  for  want  of  the  expe&ed 
Supplies,  found  himfelf  under  a  Neeeflky  of 

leacewith  clapping  up  a  fpeedy  Peace  with  Holland. 

Holland.  This  Peace  leaving  thofe  youthful 
Spirits,  that  had  by  the  late  Naval  War 
been  rais  a  into  a  generous  Ferment,  under 
a  perfed  Ina&ivity  at  Home,-  they  found 
themfelves,  to  avoid  a  Sort  of  Life  that  was 
their  Averfion,  oblig'd  to  look  out  for  one 
more  a&ive,  and  more  fuitable  to  their  vigo- 
rous Tempers  Abroad 

I  must  acknowledge  my  felf  one  of 
that  Number,-   and  therefore  in  the  Year 
1674, 1  refolv'd  to  go  into  Flanders,  in  or- 
der 


En] 

der  to  ferve  as  Voluntier  in  the  Army  com- 
manded by  his  Highnefs  the  Prince  of 
Orange.  I  took  my  Paffage  accordingly 
at  T)o<ver  for  Calais,  and  fo  went  by  way 
of  ^Dunkirk  for  BruJJels. 

A  r  r  i  v  i  n  g  at  which  Place,  I  was  in- 
form'd  that  the  Army  of  the  Confederates 
lay  encamp'd  not  far  from  Nwelle ;  and  un- 
der the  daily  Expe&ation  of  an  Engagement 
with  the  Enemy.  This  News  made  me 
prefs  forward  to  the  Service  ^  for  which 
Purpofe  I  carry'd  along  with  me  proper 
Letters  of  Recommendation  to  Sir  Waiter 
Vane,  who  was  at  that  time  a  Major-Gene- 
ral. Upon  further  Enquiry  I  underftood, 
that  a  Party  of  Horfe,  which  was  to  guard 
fome  Waggons  that  were  going  to  Count 
Mont  erf  s  Army,  were  to  fet  out  next  Morn- 
ing -3  fo  I  got  an  Irijh  Priefl:  to  introduce 
me  to  the  Commanding  Officer,  which  he 
readily  oblig'd  me  in  5-  and  they ,  as  I 
wifli'd  them,  arriv'd  in  the  Camp  next  Day. 

I  had  fcarce  been  there  an  Hour,  when 
happen'd  one  of  the  moft  extraordinary  Ac- 
cidents in  Life.  I  obferv'd  in  the  Eaft  a 
ftrange  dufty  colour'd  Cloud,  of  a  pretty 
large  Extent,  riding,  not  before  the  Wind 
(for  it  was  a  perfect  Calm)  with  fuch  a  pre- 
cipitate Motion,  that  it  was  got  over  our 
Heads  almoft  as  foon  as  feen.  When  the 
Skirts  of  that  Cloud  began,  to  cover  our 
Camp,  there  fuddenly  arofe  fuch  a  terrible 

Hur- 


Hurricane,  or  Whirlwind,  that  all  the 
Tents  were  carry'd  aloft  with  great  Vio- 
lence into  the  Air ;  and  S6ldiers  Hats  flew 
fo  high  and  thick,  that  my  Fanfy  can 
refemble  it  to  nothing  better  than  thofe 
Flights  of  Rooks,  which  at  Dusk  of  E- 
vening,  leaving  the  Fields,  feek  their 
roofting  Places.  Trees  were  torn  up  by  the 
very  Roots ;  and  the  Roofs  of  all  the  Barns, 
fie.  belonging  to  the  Prince's  Quarters, 
were  blown  quite  away.  This  lafted  for 
about  half  an  Hour,  until  the  Cloud  was 
wholly  paft  over  us,  when  as  fuddenly  en- 
fued  the  fame  pacifick  Calm  as  before  the 
Cloud's  Approach.  Its  Courfe  was  feem- 
ingly  dire6lly  Weft ;  and  yet  wTe  were  foon 
after  inform  d,  that  the  fine  Dome  of  the 
great  Church  at  Utrecht  had  greatly  fuffer'd 
by  it  the  fame  Day.  And,  if  I  am  not 
much  miftaken,  Sir  William  Temple^  in  his 
Memoirs,  mentions  fomewhat  of  it,  which 
he  felt  at  Lillo^  on  his  Return  from  the 
Prince  of  Oranges  Camp,  where  he  had 
been  a  Day  or  two  before. 

A  s  foon  after  this,  as  I  could  get  an  Op- 
portunity, I  deliver'd,  at  his  Quarters,  my 
recommendatory  Letters  to  Sir  Walter  Vane ; 
who  received  me  very  kindly,  telling  me  at 
the  fame  time,  that  there  were  fix  or  feven 
Engli/h  Gentlemen,  who  had  enter'd  them- 
felves  Voluntiers  in  the  Prince's  own  Com- 
pany of  Guards :  And  added,  that  he  would 
i  imme- 


C  13] 

immediately  recommend  me  to  Count  Solmes^ 
their  Colonel.  He  was  not  worfe  than  his 
Word,    and  I    was   enter'd   accordingly* 

Thofe  fix  Gentlemen  were  as  follows,  

Clavers->  who  fince  was  better  known  by 
the  Title  of  Lord  "Dundee  >  Mr.  Collier ',  now 
Lord  Tortmore ;  Mr.  Rooke,  fince  Major- 
General  j  Mr.  Hales ,  who  lately  died,  and 
was  for  a  long  time  Governor  of  Chelfea- 
Hofpital  y  Mr.  Vernier,  Son  of  that  Venner 
remarkable  for  his  being  one  of  the  Fifth- 
Monarchy  Men  $  and  Mr.  Hoyce.  The  four 
firft  rofe  to  be  very  eminent  j  but  Fortune 
is  not  to  all  alike  favourable. 

In  about  a  Week's  Time  after,  it  wzsrie  Arz% 
refolv'd  in  a  Council  of  War,  to  march  to-marcheth 
wards  Sincb,  a  fmall  wall'd  Town,  about  gg? 
four  Leagues  from  Nwelle  -,  the  better  to 
cut  off  the  Provifions  from  coming  to  the 
Prince  of  Condi's  Camp  that  Way. 

Accordingly,  on  the  firft  Day  of 
Jiiguft)  being  Saturday,  we  began  our 
March  j  and  the  E?igliflj  Voluntiers  had 
the  Favour  of  a  Baggage  Waggon  appoint- 
ed them.  Count  Souches^  the  Imperial 
General,  with  the  Troops  of  that  Nation, 
led  the  Van ;  the  main  Body  was  composed 
oCDutcb,  under  the  Prince  of  Orange,  as 
Generaliilimo  ;  and  the  Spaniards*,  under 
Prince  Vaudemont,  with  fome  Detachments, 
made  the  Rear  Guard. 


As 


cm 

A  s  we  were  upon  our  March,  I  being 

among  thofe  Detachments  which  made  up 

the  Rear  Guard,  obferv'd  a  great  Party  of 

the  Enemy's  Horfe  upon  an  Afcent,  which, 

I  then  imaging  as  it  after  prov'd,  to   be 

the  Prince  of  Conde  taking  a  View  of  our 

Forces  under  March.     There  were  many 

Defiles,  which  our  Army  muft  neceffarily 

pafs  j  through  which  that  Prince  politickly 

enough  permitted  the  Imperial  and  "Dutch 

Forces  to  pafs  unmolefted.  But  when  Prince 

Vatidemont)  with  the  Spaniards^  and  our 

Detachments,    thought  to  have  done  the 

Trince  of  ^ke.,   ^  Prince  of  Conde  fell  on  our  Rear 

conde V  Guard  5  and,  after  a  long  and  fharp  Dif- 

tireiy  routs  pUte^  entirely  routed 'em,-  the  Marquifs  of 

tf\uZn-4jfentar.>    a  Spanijh  Lieutenant-General  , 

federate       dying  UpOtt  the  Spot. 

Mmy.  H  a  d  the  Prince  of  Conde  contented  him- 

felf  with  this  Share  of  good  Fortune,  his 
Victory  had  been  uncontefled  :  But  being 
pufli'd  forward  by  a  vehement  Heat  of 
Temper  (which  he  was  noted  for)  and 
flufh'd  with  this  extraordinary  Succefs,  he 
refolv'd  to  force  the  whole  Confederate 
Army  to  a  Battle.  In  order  to  which,  he 
,  immediately  led  his  Forces  between  our  Se- 
cond Line,  and  our  Line  of  Baggage  5  by 
which  means  the  latter  were  entirely  cut 
oft,  and  were  fubjefted  to  the  Will  of  the 
Enemy,  who  fell  djrectly  to  plunder*  in 
which  they  were  not  a  little  aflifted  by  the 

routed 


[  i5] 

routed  Spaniards  themfelves,  who  did  not 
difdain  at  that  time  to  ihare  with  the  Enemy 
in  the  plundering  of  their  Friends  and 
Allies. 

The  EngliJJo  Voluntiers  had  their  Share 
of  this  ill  Fortune,  with  the  reft,-  their 
Waggon  appointed  them  being  among  thofe 
intercepted  by  the  Enemy  ;  and  I,  for  my 
Part,  loft  every  Thing  but  Life,  which  yet 
was  faved  almoft  as  unaccountably  as  my 
Fellow-Soldiers  had  loft  theirs.  The  Bag- 
gage, as  I  have  faid,  being  cut  off,  and  at 
the  Mercy  of  the  Enemy,  every  one  endea- 
vour'd  to  efcape  through  ,  or  over  the 
Hedges.  And  as  in  all  Cafes  of  like  Con- 
fufion,  one  endeavours  to  fave  himfelf  upon 
the  Ruins  of  others :  So  here,  he  that  found 
himfelf  ftopt  by  another  in  getting  over  the 
Gap  of  a  Hedge,  pull'd  him  back  to  make 
way  for  himfelf,  and  perhaps  met  with  the 
fame  Fortune  from  a  Third,  to  the  Deftruc- 
tion  of  all.  I  was  then  in  the  Vigour  of 
my  Youth,  and  none  of  the  leaft  a£ive,  and 
perceiving  how  it  had  far'd  with  fome  be- 
fore me,  I  clapt  my  left  Leg  upon  the 
Shoulders  of  one  who  was  thus  contending 
with  another,  and  with  a  Spring  threw  my 
felf  over  both  their  Heads  and  the  Hedge 
at  the  fame  time.  By  this  Means  I  not  only 
fav'd  my  Life  (for  they  were  all  cut  to 
Pieces  that  could  not  get  over)  but  from  an 
Eminence,  which  I  foon  after  attaind,   I 

had 


[  »6] 

had  an  Opportunity  of  feeing,  and  making 
my  Obfervations  upon  the  remaining  Part  of 
that  glorious  Conflict. 

I  t  was  from  that  advantagious  Situation, 
that  I  prefently  difcover'd  that  the  Imperia- 
lifts,  who  led  the  Van,  had  now  join'd  the 
main  Body.     And,  I  confefs,  it  was  with 
an  almoft  inexpreilible  Pleafure,  that  I  be- 
held,  about  three  a-Clock,  with  what  in- 
trepid Fury  they  fell  upon  the  Enemy.     In 
Tie  Battle  flhort,   both  Armies  were  univerfally  en- 
tfSeneff.  gag'd,  and  with  great  Obftinacy  difputed 
the  Vi&ory  till  Eleven  at  Night,  At  which 
Time  the  French,  being   pretty  well  fur- 
French     feited,   made  their  Retreat.     Neverthelefs, 
lfelthe    to  fecure  it  by  a  Stratagem,  they  left  their 
lighted   Matches  hanging   in  the  Hedges, 
and  waving  with  the  Air,  to  conceal  it  from 
the  Confederate  Army. 
Cafede-       A  b  o  u  t  two  Hours  after,  the  Confede- 
rate  Army  rate  Forces  follow'd  the  Example  of  their 
+«tm  eff.EnemieSj  ancj  drew  off.     And  tho'  neither 
Army  had  much  Reafon  to  boaft  ,•  yet  as 
the  Prince  of  Orange  remain'd  laft  in  the 
Field  ,♦  and  the  French  had  loft  what  they 
before  had  gain'd,  the  Glory  of  the  Day 
fell  to  the  Prince  of  Orange  ;  who,  altho 
but  twenty-four  Years   of  Age,    had  the 
Suffrage  of  Friend  and  Foe,    of  having 
play'd  the  Part  of  an  old  and  experienc  d 
Officer. 

There 


[^73 

There  were  left  that  Day  on  the  Field 
of  Battle,  by  a  general  Computation,  not 
lefs  than  eighteen  Thoufand  Men  on  both 
Sides,  over  and  above  thofe,  who  died  of 
their  Wounds:  The  Lofs  being  pretty 
equal,  only  the  French  carried  off  molt 
Prifoners.  Prince  Waldeck  was  fhot  through 
the  Arm,  which  I  was  near  enough  to  be 
an  Eye-witnefs  of:  And  my  much  lamented 
Friend,  Sir  Walter  Vane^  was  carried  off 
dead.  A  Wound  in  the  Arm  was  all  the 
Mark  of  Honour,  that  I  as  yet  could  boaft 
of,  though  our  Cannon  in  the  Defiles  had 
(lain  many  near  me. 

The  Prince  of  Condi  (as  we  were  next 
Day  inform'd)  lay  all  that  Night  under  a 
Hedge,  wrapp'd  in  his  Cloke :  And  either 
from  the  Mortification  of  being  difappointed 
in  his  Hopes  of  Vi&ory  5-  or  from  a  Refle- 
xion of  the  DifTervice,  which  his  own  na* 
tural  over  Heat  of  Temper  had  drawn  upon 
him,  was  almoft  inconfolable  many  Days 
after.  And  thus  ended  the  famous  Battle 
of  Seneff. 

But  though  common  Vogue  has  given 
it  the  Name  of  a  Battle,  in  my  weak  Opi- 
nion, it  might  rather  deferve  that  of  a  con- 
fus'd  Skirmifh ;  all  Things  having  been  for- 
cibly carried  on  without  Regularity,  or 
even  Defign  enough  to  allow  it  any  higher 
Denomination  :  For,  as  I  have  faid  before, 
notwithftanding  I  was  advantagioufly  fta- 
C  tioned 


C  18] 

tioned  for  Obfervation,  I  found  it  very  of- 
ten impoffible  to  diftinguifli  one  Party  from 
prince  of  another.     And  this  was  more  remarkably 
o^y*  evident  on  the  Part  of  the  Prince  of  Orange, 
1/ thl      whofe  Valour  and  Vigour  having  led  him 
French     jnto  the  Middle  of  the  Enemy,  and  being 
Amy'      then  fenfible  of  his  Error,   by  a  peculiar 
Prefence   of   Mind ,    gave   the    Word   of 
Command  in  French,  which  he  fpoke  per- 
fectly well.     But  the  French  Soldiers,  who 
took  him  for  one  of  their  own  Generals, 
making  Anfwer,  that  their  Powder  was  all 
fpent,  it  afforded  Matter  of  Inftru&ion  to 
him  to  perfift  in  his  Attack  ;  at  the  fame 
Time,  that  it  gave  him  a  Leffon  of  Cauti- 
on,   to  withdraw  himfelf,    as  foon  as  he 
could,  to  his  own  Troops. 
March*  to     However,  the  Day  after  the  Prince 
Chiang-    Qf  Qrcmge  thought  proper  to  march  to  Qyta- 
rigVcVh  a  Village  within  a  League  of  Mons; 
where  he  remain'd  fome  Days,  till  he  could 
be  fupply'd  from  cBruJ[els  with  thofe  Necef- 
faries  which  his  Army  flood  in  need  of. 
Marches  to     F  r  o  m  thence  we   march'd  to   Valen- 
Vaiena-    ciennes,  where  we  again  encamp'd,  till  we 
Tefmes  ;  could  receive  Things  proper  for  a  Siege. 
Oudenard-Upon  the  Arrival  whereof,  the  Prince  gave 
Orders  to  decamp,  and  march'd  his  Army 
with  a  Defign  to  befiege  Aeth.     But  having 
Intelligence  on  our  March,  that  the  Ma- 
refchal  2)<?  Humiers  had   reinforc'd   that 
Garrifon,    we  march'd  directly  to  Oude* 

nard> 


[  *9  ] 

mrc?)    and  immediately   invefted  it. 

This  Siege  was  carried  on  with  fuch 
Application  and  Succefs,  that  the  Befiegers 
were  in  a  few  Days  ready  for  a  Storm; 
but  the  Princcjof  Qmdi  prevented  them,  by 
coming  up  to  its  Relief.     Upon  which  the 
Prince  of  Orange*  purfuant  to  the  Refolution 
of  a  Council  of  War  the  Night  before,  drew 
off  his  Forces  in  order  to  give  him  Battle  • 
and  to  that  purpofe ,   after    the   laborious 
Work  of  filling  up  our  Lines  of  Contraval- 
lation3   that  the   Horfe  might  pafs  more 
freely,  we  lay  upon  our  Arms  all  Night. 
Next  Morning  we  expe&ed  the  Imperial 
General,  Count  Souches*   to  join  us,-   but 
inftead  of  that,   he  fent  back  fome  Very 
frivolous  Excufes,    of  the  Inconveniency  of 
the  Ground  for  a  Battle  ;   and  after  that, 
inftead  of  joining  the  Prince,  marched  off 
quite  another  wTay  $   the  Prince  of  Orange* 
with   the  'Dutch    and    Spaniffo    Troops, 
marched  directly  for  Ghent;    exclaiming 
publickly  againft  the  Chicanery  of  Souches* 
and  openly  declaring.    That  he  had  been 
advertis'd  of  a  Conference  between  a  French 
Capuchin    and   that    General,    the  Night 
before.     Certain   it  is,   that  that  General 
lay  under  the  Difpleafure   of  his   Mafter, 
the  Emperor,  for  that  Piece  of  Manage- 
ment {  and  the  Count  de  Sporck  was  imme- 
diately appointed  General  in  his  Place. 

C  2  The 


[so] 

ptinceof  The  Prince  of  Orange  was  hereupon 
gotgfo  leaving  the  Army  in  great  Difguft,  till  pre- 
leave  the  vaifd  upon  by  the  Count  de  Montery^  for 
M?Jn  the  general  Safety,  to  recede  from  that  Re- 
?  folution.     However,   feeing  no  likelihood 

of  any  Thing  further  to  be  done,  while 
Souches  was  in  Command,  he  refolv'd  up- 
on a  Poft  of  more  Action,  though  more 
dangerous;  wherefore  ordering  ten  Thou- 
fand  Men  to  march  before,  he  himfelf  foon 
after  followed  to  the  Siege  of  Grave. 
carries  on      The  Grave^  a  ftrong  Place,  and  of  the 
the  siege  flrfl;  Moment  to  the  Hollanders ,  had  been 
;/Glave*  block'd  up  by  the  Dutch  Forces  all  the 
Summer;  the  Prince  of  Orange  therefore 
leaving  the  main  Army  under  Prince  Wal- 
deck  at  Ghent \  follow'd  the  Detachment 
he  had  made  for  the  Siege  of  that  impor- 
tant Place,  refolving  to  purchafe  it  at  any 
Rate.     On  his  Arrival  before  it,    Things 
began  to  find  new  Motion ;  and  as  they 
were  carried  on  with  the  utmoft  Applica- 
tion and  Fury,  the  Befieged  found  them- 
felves,  in  a  little  Time,  oblig'd  to  change 
their  haughty  Summer  Note  for  one  more 
fuitable  to  the  Seafon. 
'Mi takes      The  Prince,  from  his  firft  coming,  ha- 
if-  ving  kept  thofe  within  hotly  ply 'd  with  Ball, 

both  from  Cannon  and  Mortars,  Monfieur 
Chamiltyy  the  Governor,  after  a  few  Days, 
being  weary  of  fuch  warm  Work,  defired 
to  capitulate  •    •         -^ivv,  Hoftages  were 


[  »■  ] 

exchanged,  and  Articles  agreed  on  next 
Morning.  Purfuant  to  which,  the  Garri- 
fon  march'd  out  with  Drums  beating  and 
Colours  flying,  two  Days  after,  and  were 
conducted  to  Charleroy. 

By  the  taking  this  Place,  which  made 
the  Prince  of  Orange  the  more  earneft  up- 
on it,  the  French  were  wholly  expell'd 
their  laft  Year's  aftoniftiing  Conquefts  in 
Holland.  And  yet  there  was  another  Con- 
fideration,  that  render 'd  the  Surrender  of  it 
much  more  confiderable.  For  the  French 
being  fenfible  of  the  great  Strength  of  this 
Place,  had  there  depofited  all  their  Can- 
non and  Ammunition,  taken  from  their 
other  Conquefts  in  Holland ,  which  they 
never  were  able  to  remove  or  carry  off3 
with  tolerable  Profpeft  of  Safety,  after  that 
Prince's  Army  firft  took  the  Field. 

The  Enemy  being  march'd  out,  the 
Prince  enter'd  the  Town,  and  immediately 
order'd  publick  Thankfgivings  for  its  happy 
Reduction.  Then  having  appointed  a  Go- 
vernor, and  left  a  fufficient  Garrifon,  he 
put  an  End  to  that  Campaign,  and  return'd 
to  the  Hague  >  where  he  had  not  been  long 
before  he  fell  ill  of  the  Small  Pox.  The 
Confirmation  this  threw  the  whole  Coun- 
try into,  is  not  to  be  exprefs'd :  Any  one 
that  had  feen  it  would  have  thought,  that 
the  French  had  made  another  Inundation 
greater  than  the  former.  But  when  the 
C  3  Dan- 


[« ] 

Danger  was  over,  their  Joy  and  Satisfa&i- 
on,  for  his  Recovery,  was  equally  beyond 
Expreflion. 

l!^Uedgh  ^HE  Year  l67*>'  yielded  very  little  rc- 
In/Lken  markahle  in  our  Army.  Limhtrgh  was  be- 
by  the  fieged  by  the  French,  under  the  Command 
Frenc  .    Qf  ^  j)uke  0f  jingUien^  which  the  Prince 

of  Orange  having  Intelligence  of,  immedi- 
ately decamp'd  from  his  fine  Camp  at  Tieth- 
lem,  near  Louvain,  in  order  to  raife  the 
Siege.     But  as  we  were  on  a  full  March  for 
that    purpofe ,    and   had   already  reach'd 
Ruremond,  Word  was  brought,  that   the 
Place    had    furrender'd  the    Day   before. 
Upon  which   Advice,  the   Prince,  after  a 
fhort  Halt,  made  his  little  Army  (for  it 
confifted  not  of  more  than  thirty  Thoufand 
Men)  march  back  to  Brabant.     Nothing 
of  moment,    after  this,    occurr'd  all  that 
Campaign. 
MaefirJch      In  the  Year  1675.  the  Prince  of  Orange 
begged  fy  having ,    in   concert  with  the  Spaniards, 
ofolZge. refolv'd  upon  the  important  Siege  of  Mae- 
ftricb  (the  only  Town  in  the  Stitch  Pro- 
vinces, then  remaining  in  the  Hands  of  the 
French)  it  was  accordingly  inverted  about 
the  middle  ofcjune,  with  an  Army  of  twen- 
ty Thoufand  Men,   under  the  Command  of 
his   Highnefs    Prince    Waldeck ,    with  the 
grand   Army  covering  the  Siege.     It  was 
fome  Time  before  the  heavy  Cannon,  which 
we  exj eCted  up  the  Maes,  from  Holland, 

am- 


[  n  1 

arrived  ,•  which  gave  Occafion  to  a  Piece  of 
Raillery  of  Montieur  Cafoo,  the  Governor, 
which  was  as  handfomely  repartee'd. 
That  Governor,  by  a  Meflenger,  intima- 
ting his  Sorrow  to  find,  we  had  pawn'd 
our  Cannon  for  Ammunition  Bread.  An- 
fwer  was  made,  That  in  a  few  Days  we 
hoped  to  give  him  a  Tafte  of  the  Loaves, 
which  he  fhould  find  would  be  fent  him  in- 
to the  Town  in  extraordinary  plenty.  I 
remember  another  Piece  of  Raillery,  which 
pafs'd  fome  Days  after  between  the  Rhin- 
grave  and  the  lame  Cafoo.  The  former 
fending  Word,  that  he  hoped  within  three 
Weeks  to  faiute  that  Governor's  Miftrefs 
within  the  Place.  Cafoo  reply'd  ,  He'd 
give  him  leave  to  kifs  her  all  over,  if  he 
kifs'd  her  any  where  in  three  Months. 

But  our  long  expe&ed  Artillery  being  at 
laft  arriv'd,  all  this  Jeft  and  Merriment  was 
foon  converted  into  earneft.  Our  Trenches 
were  immediately  open'd  towards  the 
'Dauphin  Baftion ,  againfl:  which  were 
planted  many  Cannon,  in  order  to  make 
a  Breach ;  my  felf  as  a  Probationer  being 
twice  put  upon  the  forlorn  Hope  to  faci- 
litate that  difficult  Piece  of  Service.  Nor 
was  it  long  before  fuch  a  Breach  was  ef- 
fe&ed,  as  was  efteenfd  practicable,  and 
therefore  very  foon  after  it  was  ordered  to 
be  attack'd. 

C  4  The 


The  Difpofition  for  the  Attack  was 
thus  ordered;  two  Serjeants  with  twenty 
Grenadiers,  a  Captain  with  fifty  Men,  my 
felf  one  of  the  Number  j  then  a  Party  car- 
rying Wool  Sacks,  and  after  them  two 
Captains  with  one  Hundred  Men  more,- 
the  Soldiers  in  the  Trenches  to  be  ready  to 
fuftain  them ,  as  Occafion  fliould  re- 
quire. 

The  Signal  being  given,  we  left  our 
Trenches  accordingly,  having  about  one 
Hundred  Yards  to  run,  before  we  could 
reach  the  Breach,  which  we  mounted  with 
fome  difficulty  and  Lofs  ;  all  our  Batteries 
firing  at  the  fame  inftant  to  keep  our  A&ion 
in  countenance,  and  favour  our  Defign. 
When  we  were  in  Poffeifton  of  the  Baftion, 
the  Enemy  fir'd  moft  furioufly  upon  us  with 
their  fmall  Cannon  through  a  thin  brick 
Wall,  by  which,  and  their  hand  Grena- 
does,  we  loft  more  Men  than  we  did  in  the 
Attack  it  felf 

But  well  had  it  been  had  our  ill  For- 
tune ftopp'd  there  $  for  as  if  Difafter  muft 
needs  be  the  Concomitant  of  Succefs,  we 
foon  loft  what  we  had  thus  gotten,  by  a 
fmall,  but  very  odd  Accident.  Not  being 
furnifhed  \yith  fuch  Scoopes  as  our  Ene- 
mies made  ufe  of,  in  toffing  their  hand 
Grenadoes  fome  diftance  off,  one  of  our  own 
Soldiers  aiming  to  throw  one  over  the 
Wall   into   the    Counterfcarp  among  the 

*   '         £ne~ 


C  *5  3 

Enemy,  it  fo  happen'd  that  he  unfortunate- 
ly mifs'd  his  Aim,  and  the  Grenade  fell 
down  again  on  our  fide  the  Wall,  very 
near  the  Perfon  who  fir'd  it.  He  ftart- 
ing  back  to  fave  himfelf,  and  fome  others 
who  faw  it  fall,  doing  the  like,  thofe  who 
knew  nothing  of  the  Matter  fell  into  a  fud- 
den  Confufion,  and  imagining  fome  greater 
danger  than  there  really  was,  every  body 
was  (truck  with  a  panick  Fear,  and  endea- 
vour'd  to  be  the  firft  who  Ihould  quit  the 
Baftion,  and  fecure  himfelf  by  a  real  Shame 
from  an  imaginary  Evil.  Thus  was  a  Ba- 
ftion, that  had  been  glorioufly  gain'd,  in- 
advertently defertedj  and  that  too,  with 
the  Lofs  of  almoft  as  many  Men  in  the  Re- 
treat, as  had  been  flain  in  the  Onfet,  and 
the  Enemy  moft  triumphantly  again  took 
Poffeffion  of  it. 

Among  the  Slain  'on  our  Side  in  this 
A&ion,  was  an  Enfign  of  Sir  John  Fen- 
wick's  Regiment  $  and  as  an  Approbation 
of  my  Services  his  Commiflion  was  bellow- 
ed upon  me. 

A  f  e  w  Days  after  it  was  refolv'd  again 
to  ftorm  that  Baftion,  as  before ;  out  of 
three  Englijh,  and  one  Scotch  Regiment, 
then  in  the  Camp3  a  Detachment  was  fe- 
lefted  for  a  frefh  Attack.  Thofe  Regi- 
ments were  under  the  Command  of  Sir 
John  Fenwick  (who  was  afterwards  be- 
headed) 


[  .6  ] 

headed)  Colonel  Ralph  Widdrington,  and 
Colonel  Afloley,  of  the  EngUJh ;  and  Sir 
Alexander  Collier^  Father  of  the  prefent 
Lord  'Portmore,  of  the  Scotch.  Out  of 
every  of  thefe  four  Regiments,  as  before, 
were  detach'd  a  Captain,  a  Lieutenant,  and 
an  Enfign,  with  fifty  Men  :  Captain  Jn- 
tbony  'Barnwell,  of  Sir  John  Fenwictts  Re- 
giment, who  was  now  my  Captain,  com- 
manding that  Attack. 

A  t  break  of  Day  the  Attack  was  be- 
gun with  great  Resolution  -y  and  though 
vigoroufly  maintain'd,  was  attended  with 
the  defir'd  Succefs.  The  Baftion  was  again 
taken,  and  in  it  the  commanding  Officer, 
who  in  Service  to  himfelf,  more  than  to  us, 
told  us,  that  the  Center  of  the  Baftion 
would  foon  be  blown  up ,  being  to  his 
Knowledge  undermin'd  for  that  purpofe. 
But  this  Secret  prov'd  of  no  other  ufe,  than 
to  make  us,  by  way  of  Precaution,  to  keep 
as  much  as  we  could  upon  the  Rampart.  In 
this  Attack  Captain  Barnwell  loft  his  Life  ; 
and  it  happened  my  new  Commiflion  was 
wetted  (not,  as  too  frequently  is  the  Cu- 
ftom,  with  a  Debauch)  but  with  a  Bullet 
through  my  Hand ,  and  the  Breach  of 
my  Collar  Bone  with  the  Stroke  of  a 
Halberd.      - 

After  about  half  an  Hour's  PofTeflion 

of  the  Baftion,  the  Mine  under  it,  of  which 

i  the 


C  v  j 

the  French  Officer  gave  us  warning,  was 
fprung ;  the  Enemy  at  the  fame  Time  ma- 
king a  furious  Sally  upon  us.  The  Mine 
did  a  little,  though  the  lefs,  Execution, 
for  being  difcover  a  ,•  but  the  Sally  no  way 
anfwer'd  their  End,  for  we  beat  them  back, 
and  immediately  fix'd  our  Lodgment  ,- 
which  we  maintaind  during  the  Time  of 
the  Siege.  But  to  our  double  Surprize,  a 
few  Days  after  they  fir'd  another  Mine  un- 
der, or  afide,  the  former,  in  which  they 
had  plac'd  a  quantity  of  Grenadoes,  which 
did  much  more  Execution  than  the  other : 
Notwithftanding  all  which,  a  Battery  of 
Guns  was  prefently  ere&ed  upon  that  Ba- 
ftion,  which  very  conliderably  annoy 'd  the 
Enemy. 

The  Breach  for  a  general  Storm  was 
now  rendered  almoft  practicable  ^  yet  be- 
fore that  could  be  advifably  attempted,  there 
was  a  ftrong  Horn-work  to  be  taken.  Upon 
this  Exploit  the  T)tttcb  Troops  only  were 
to  fignalize  themfelves  ,•  and  they  anfwer'd 
the  Confidence  repos'd  in  them  •  for  though 
they  were  twice  repulsed,  at  the  third  Onfet 
they  were  more  fuccefsful,  and  took  Poffef- 
fion  ;  which  they  likewife  kept  to  the  Rai- 
ling of  the  Siege. 

There  was  a  Stratagem  lay'd  at  this 
Time,  which  in  its  own  Merit  one  would 
have  thought  fliould  not  have  fail'd  of  a 

good 


on 

good  Effed ,-  but  to  ftiew  the  Vanity  of  the 
higheft  human  Wifdom,  it  mifcarry'd.  On 
the  other  fide  of  the  AZ^.r,  oppofite  to  Mae- 
Jfricb3  lies  the  ftrong  Fortrefs  of  Wyck%  to 
which  it  is  join'd  by  a  ftone  Bridge  of  fix 
fair  Arches.  The  Defign  was,  by  a  falfe 
Attack  on  that  regular  Fortification  to 
draw  the  Strength  of  the  Garrifon  to  its 
Defence,  which  was  but  very  natural  to 
Imagine  would  be  the  Confequence.  Rea- 
dy to  attend  that  well  concerted  falfe  At- 
tack, a  large  flat  bottom' d  Boat,  properly 
furnifh'd  with  Barrels  of  Gun-Powder,  and 
other  Neceffaries,  was  to  fall  down  under 
one  of  the  middle  Arches,  and  when  fix'd 
there,  by  firing  the  Powder  to  have  blown 
up  the  Bridge,  and  by  that  means  to  have 
prevented  the  Return  of  the  Garrifon  to  op- 
pofe  a  real  Attack  at  that  inftant  of  Time 
to  be  made  upon  the  Town  of  Maeftricb  by 
the  whole  Army. 

The  falfe  Attack  on  Wyck  was  accord- 
ingly made,  which,  as  propos'd,  drew  the 
Main  of  the  Garrifon  of  Maeftricb  to  its  De- 
fence, and  the  Boat  fo  furnifli'd  fell  down 
the  River  as  proje&ed,  but  unfortunately, 
before  it  could  reach  the  Arch,  from  the 
Darknefs  of  the  Night ,  running  upon  a 
Shoal,  it  could  not  be  got  off;  for  which 
Reafon  the  Men  in  the  Boat  were  glad  to 
make  a  hafty  Efcape  for  fear  of  being  dif- 

eover'd ; 


cover'd^  as  the  Boat  was,  next  Morning, 
and  the  whole  Defign  laid  open. 

This  Stratagem  thus  mifcarrying,  all 
Things  were  immediately  got  ready  for  a 
general  Storm,  at  the  main  Breach  in  the 
Town ;  and  the  rather,  becaufe  the  Prince 
of  Orange  had  receiv'd  inconteftable  Intelli- 
gence, That  Duke  Schomberg,  at  the  Head 
of  the  French  Army,  was  in  full  march  to 
relieve  the  Place.  But  before  every  Thing 
could  be  rightly  got  ready  for  the  intended 
Storm  (though  fome  there  were  who  pre- 
tended to  fay,  that  a  Difpute  rais'd  by  the 
Spaniards  with  the  Dutch,  about  the  Pro- 
priety of  the  Town,  when  taken,  was  the 
Caufe  of  that  Delay)  we  heard  at  fome  di- 
ftance  feveral  Guns  fir'd  as  Signals  of  Re- 
lief; upon  which  we  precipitately,  and,  as 
moft  imagined,  fhamefully  drew  off  from  prince  of 
before  the  Place,  and  join'd  the  grand  Ar-0ran8eV 
my  under  Prince  Waldech  But  it  wasfr^^. 
Matter  of  yet  greater  Surprize  to  moft  on  before 
the  Spot,  that  when  the  Armies  were  f0Maeftrich* 
joyn'd,  we  did  not  ftay  to  offer  the  Enemy 
Battle.  The  well  known  Courage  of  the 
Prince,  then  Generaliffimo,  was  fo  far  from 
folving  this  Riddle,  that  it  rather  puzzled 
all  who  thought  of  it ;  however,  the  pre- 
vailing Opinion  was,  that  it  was  occafion'd 
by  fome  great  Mifunderftanding  between 
the  Spaniards  and  the  T)fitch.  And  Ex- 
nerience  will  evince,  that  this  was  not  the 

onl 


C3°l 

only  Difappointment  of  that  Nature,  occa- 
fion'd  by  imperfeft  Underftandings. 

Besides  the  Number  of  common  Soldi- 
ers (lain  in  this  Attack,  which  was  not  incon- 
fiderable,  we  loft  here  the  brave  Rbingrave, 
a  Perfon  much  lamented  on  account  of  his 
many  other  excellent  Qualifications,  as  well 
as  that  of  a  General.     Colonel  Ralph  Wid- 
drington,  and  Colonel  Tloleman  (who  had 
not    enjoy'd     Widdringtons     Commiflion 
above  a  Fortnight)  Captain  'Douglas,  Cap- 
tain ^Barnwell,  and  Captain  Lee,  were  of 
the  Slain  among  the  Engliflj -y   who,   in- 
deed, had  born  the  whole  brunt  of  the  At- 
tack upon  the  "Dauphins  Baftion. 

I  remember  the  Prince  of  Orange, 
during  the  Siege,  receiv'd  a  Shot  through 
his  Arm  ,•  which  giving  an  immediate  Alarm 
to  the  Troops  under  his  Command,  he  took 
his  Hat  off  his  Head  with  the  wounded 
Arm,  and  fmiling,  wav'd  it,  to  lhew  them 
there  was  no  danger.     Thus,  after  the  molt 
gallant  Defence  againft  the  moll  couragi- 
ous  Onfets,  ended  the  Siege  of  Maeftrich  ; 
and  with  it  all  that  was  material  that  Cam- 
paign. 
Cambray       Early   in  the  Spring,    in  the  Year 
andstb'e°'  i6jj.  the  French  Army,   under  the  Duke 
fiegedby    of  Orleans,  befieged  at  once,   both  Cam- 
theFrench  frray  ancl    Saint  Omers.      This    laft    the 
Prince  of  Orange  feem'd  very  intent  and 
refolute  to  relieve.    In  order    to    which, 

well 


[  3'  ] 

well  knowing  by  fad  Experience,  it  would 
be  to  little  purpofe  to  wait  the  majeftick 
Motions  of  the  Spaniards,  that  Prince  got 
together  what  Forces  he  could  ,  all  in 
^Dtttch  Pay,  and  marching  forward  with  Prime  tf 
all  fpeed,  refolv'd,  even  at  the  Hazard  of°ranse 

_r-7  J1       -,^./-  i        r--  attempts  i® 

a  Battle,  to  attempt  the  Railing  the  bi£g€.raife &e 
Upon  his  appearing  the  Duke  of  0rleans/le&6fm- 
to  whofe  particular  Condud  the  Care  of£/^?£ 
that  Siege  was  committed,  drew  off  from  retreat. 
before  the  Place,  leaving  fcarce  enough  of 
his  Men  to  defend    the    Trenches.      The 
Prince  was  under  the  NecelTity  of  march- 
ing his  Forces    over   a  Morafs;   and  the 
Duke,  well  knowing  it,    took  care  to  at- 
tack him  near  Mont  Cajfel,    before  half  his 
little  Army  were  got  over.     The  Difpute 
was  very  fharp,  but  the  Prince  being  much 
out  numbered,  and  his  Troops  not  able,  by 
the  Straitnefs  of  the  Paffage,  to  engage  all 
at  once,    wTas  oblig'd  at    laft  to   retreat, 
which  he  did  in  pretty  good  Order.     I  re- 
member the  *Dutch  Troops  did  not  all  alike 
do  their  Duty  ,•  and  the  Prince  feeing  one 
of  the  Officers  on  his  fulled  fpeed,  call'd  to 
him  over  and  over  to  halt  ^  which  the  Offi- 
cer in  too  much  hafte  to  obey,  the  Prince 
gave  him  a  Slafh  over  the  Face,  faying,  jBy 
this  Mark  I  floall  know  you  another  T'ime. 
Soon  after  this  Retreat  of  the  Prince,  Saint st.Omen 
Qmers  was  furrender'd.  >mw*»* 

Up  o  n 


Upon  this  Retreat  the  Prince  marching 
back,  lay  for  fome  Time  among  the  Boors, 
who  from  the  good  Difcipline,  which  he 
took  care  to  make  his  Troops  obferve,  did 
not  give  us  their  cuftomary  boorifh  Recep- 
tion. And  yet  as  fecure  as  we  might  think 
our  felves,  I  met  with  a  little  Paflage  that 
confirmed  in  me  the  Notions,  v^Jiich  the  ge- 
nerality, as  well  as  I,  had  imbib'd  of  the 
private  Barbarity  of  thofe  People,  when- 
ever an  Opportunity  falls  in  their  Way.  I 
was  ftroling  at  a  Diftance  from  my  Quar- 
ters, all  alone,  when  I  found  my  felf  near 
one  of  their  Houfes  ;  into  which,  the  Doors 
being  open,  I  ventur'd  to  enter.  Ifaw  no 
body  when  I  came  in,  though  the  Houfe 
was,  for  that  Sort  of  People,  well  enough 
furnifh'd,  and  in  pretty  decent  Order.  I 
call'd,  but  no  body  anfwering,  I  had  the 
Curioiity  to  advance  a  little  farther,  when, 
at  the  Mouth  of  the  Oven,  which  had  not 
yet  wholly  loft  its  Heat,  I  fpy'd  the  Corpfe 
of  a  Man  fo  bloated,  fwoln  and  parch'd,  as 
left  me  little  room  to  doubt,  that  the  Oven 
had  been  the  Scene  of  his  Deftiny.  I  con- 
fefs  the  Sight  ftruck  me  with  Horror  $  and 
as  much  Courage  and  Security  as  I  entered 
with,  I  withdrew  in  hafte,  and  with  quite 
different  Sentiments,  and  could  not  fanfy 
my  felf  out  of  Danger  till  I  had  reached  our 
Camp.  A  wife  Man  fliould  not  frame  an 
Accufation  on  Conjectures  -,  but,  on  Inquiry, 

2  I 


[  33  J 

I  was  foon  made  fenfible,  that  fuch  bar- 
barous Ufage  is  too  common  among  thofe 
People  •  efpecially  if  they  meet  with  a 
Straggler,  of  what  Nation  foevcr. 

This  made  me  not  very  forry  when  we 
decamp'd,  and  we  foon  after  received  Or- 
ders to  march  and  invert  Charkroy  ,♦  before 
which  Place  we  ftay'd  fomewhat  above  a 
Week,  and  then  drew  off.  I  remember 
very  well,  that  I  was  not  the  only  Perfon 
then  in  the  Camp  that  was  at  a  Lois  to  dive 
into  the  Reafbn  of  this  Inveftiture  and  De- 
campment :  But  fince  I  at  that  time,  among 
the  Politicians  of  the  Army^  never  heard  a 
good  one,  I  fhall  not  venture  to  offer  my 
Sentiments  at  fo  great  a  Diftance. 

We,  after  this,  marchM  towards  Moris  ;Arrfjy 
and,  in  our  March,  pafs'd  over  the  very  gardes  to- 
Grounds  on  which  the  Battle  of  Senejf  h^Mont 
been  fought  three  Years  before.  It  was  with 
no  little  Pleafure,  that  I  re-furvey'd  a  Place, 
that  had  once  been  of  fo  much  Danger  to 
me  ]  and  where  my  Memory  and  Fanfy  now 
repeated  back  all  thofe  Obfervations  1  had 
then  made  under  fome  unavoidable  Confu- 
fion.  Young  as  I  was,  both  in  Years  and 
Experience,  from  my  own  Reflections,  and 
the  Sentiments  of  others,  after  the  Fight 
was  over,  methought  I  law  vifibly  before 
me  the  well  order'd  Difpofition  of  the 
Prince  of  Cond'e  •  the  inexpreifible  Difficul- 
ties which  the  Prince  of  Oravge  had  to  cn- 

D  counter 


£  34  ] 

counter  with  ;  while  at  the  fame  Moment  I 
could  not  omit  to  repay  my  Debt  to  the 
Memory  of  my  firft  Patron,  Sir  Walter 
Vane-*  who  there  loofing  his  Life,  left  me 
a  folitary  Wanderer  to  the  wide  World  of 
Fortune. 

But  thefe  Thoughts  foon  gave  place  to 
new  Objects,  which  every  Hour  prefented 
themfelves  in  our  continu'd  March  to  En- 
ghien,  a  Place  famous  for  the  fineft  Gardens 
in  all  Flanders,  ^  near  which  we  encamp1d3 
on  the  very  fame  Ground  which  the  French 
chofe  fome  Years  after  at  the  Battle  of 
Steenkirk:  of  which  I  fhall  fpeak  in  its 
proper  Place.  Here  the  Prince  of  Orange 
left  our  Army,  as  we  afterwards  found,  to 
pafs  into  England ;  where  he  marry'd  the 
Princefs  Mary,  Daughter  of  the  Duke,  of 
Torh  And  after  his  Departure,  that  Cam- 
paign ended  without  any  thing  further  ma- 
terial, 
peace  con-  Now  began  the  Year  1678,  famous  for 
eluded.  tke  Peace,  and  no  lefs  remarkable  for  an 
A&ion  previous  to  it,  which  has  not  faifd 
to  employ  the  Talents  of  Men,  varioufly, 
as  they  flood  affe&ed.  Our  Army,  under 
the  Prince  of  Orange,  lay  encamp'd  at 
Soignies,  where  it  was  whifper'd  that  the 
Peace  was  concluded.  Notwithftanding 
which,  two  Days  after,  being  Sunday  the 
17th  Day  of  Augufi^  the  Army  was  drawn 
out,  as  moft  others  as  well  as  my  felf  appre- 

hendedr 


[35] 

hended,  in  order  to  a  feux  de  Joye  ;  but  iri 
lieu  of  that,  we  found  our  March  ordered 
towards  St.  ^Dermis,  where  the  Duke  of 
Luxemburg  lay,  as  he  imaging  fafe  in 
inacceffible  Entrenchments. 

About  three  of  the  Clock  our  Army  zf-Prwe$ 
riv'd  there,   when  we  receiv'd  Orders  to°ran§e 
make  the  Attack.     It  began  with  a  moft  vi- stBennist 
gorous  Spirit,   that  promis'd  no  lefs  thana"dhet>ins 
the    Succefs    which    enfu'd.      The   three  theAttack> 
Englijh  and  three  Scotch  Regiments,  under 
the  Command  of  the  ever  renowned  Earl 
of  Offbry,    together    with    the  Prince    of 
Orange's  Guards,  made  their  Attack  at  a 
Place  call'd  the  Chateau ;  where  the  French 
took  their  Refuge  among  a  Parcel  of  Hop- 
Poles  ;    but  their  Refource  was  as  weak  as 
their  Defence ;  and  they  were  foon  beaten 
out  with  a  very  great  Slaughter. 

It  was  here  that  a  French  Officer  having 
his  Piftol  direded  at  the  Breaft  of  the  Prince, 
Monfieur  Ttduverquerque  interpos'd,  and 
Ihot  the  Officer  dead  upon  the  Spot 

The  Fight  lafted  from  three  in  the  After-  Duke  of 
noon  till  Nine  at  Night ;    when  growing  f-uxenj- 
dark,   the   Duke  of  Luxemburg  forfook^Xfj;w 
his  Entrenchments,  into  which  we  march'd****^- 
next   Morning.      And  to    fee  the   fudder/7*^ 
Change   of   Things !    that   very    Spot    of 
Ground,  where  nothing  but  Fire  and  Fury 
appear'd  the  Day  before,,   the  next  faw  fo- 
lae'd  With  the- Proclamation  of  a  Peace. 

D  2  About 


[36  ] 

About  an  Hour  before  the  Attack  be- 
gan, the  Duke  of  Monmouth  arriv'd  in  the 
Army,  being  kindly  receiv'd  by  the  Prince 
of  Orange*  bravely  fighting  by  his  Side  all 
that  Day.    The  Woods,  and  the  Uneven- 
nefs  of  the  Ground,  render'd  the  Cavalry 
almoft  ufelefs  -y  yet  I  faw  a  Standard,  among 
fome  others,    which  was  taken  from  the 
Enemy,    being    richly    embroidered   with 
Gold  and  Silver,  bearing  the  Sun  in  the 
Zodiack,  with  thefe  haughty  Words,  Nihil 
objlabit  etmte.     On  the  News  of  this  unex- 
pected Vi&ory,  the  States  of  Holland  fent 
to  congratulate  the  Prince ;    and  to  teftify 
how  much  they   valued   his   Prefervation, 
they  prefented  Monfieur  T5  Auverqtterque^ 
who  had  fo  bravely  refcued  him,    with  a 
Sword,  whofe  Handle  was  of  maflfy  Gold  fet 
with  Diamonds.  1  forgot  to  mention  that  this 
Gentleman  reeeiv'd  a  Shot  on  his  Head  at 
the  Battle  of  Seneff ;  and  truly  in  all  A&ions, 
which  were  many,  he  nobly  diftinguifhed 
himfelf  by  his  Bravery.      He  was  Father  of 
this  prefent  Earl  of  Grantham. 

The  Names  of  the  EngliJJj  Officers  which 
1  knew  to  be  killed  in  this  A&ion. 

Lieut.  Col.  Archer*      Capt.  Temfeld, 
Capt.  Charleton,  Lieut.  Charkton* 

Capt.  Richard/on,         Lieut,  barton* 
Capt.  Fijher*  Eniign  Ccfcile. 

With 


C37l 

With  feveral  others,  whofe  Names  I  have 
forgot. 

Lieut.  Col.  cBabington^  who  began  the 
Attack,  by  beating  the  French  out  of  the 
Hop  Garden,  was  taken  Prifoner.  CoL 
Hales,  who  was  a  long  time  Governor  of 
Chelfea  College,  being  then  a  Captain,  re- 
ceived a  Shot  on  his  Leg,  of  which  he  went 
lame  to  his  dying  Day. 

-The  War  thus  ended  by  the  Peace  of 
Nimeagen,  the  Regiment  in  which  I  ferv'd, 
was  appointed  to  lie  in  Garrifon  at  the 
Grave.  We  lay  there  near  four  Years,  our 
Soldiers  being  moftly  employ 7d  about  the 
Fortifications.  It  was  here,  and  by  that 
Means;,  that  I  imbib'd  the  Rudiments  of 
Fortification,  and  the  praftick  Part  of  an 
Enginier,  which  in  my  more  advane'd 
Years  was  of  no  fmall  Service  to  me. 

Nevertheless,  in  the  Year  1684,  our 
Regiment  received  Orders  to  march  to 
Harelip  near  Smfels  $  where,  with  other 
Forces,  we  encarop'd,  till  we  heard  that 
Luxemburg^  invaded  by  the  French,  in  a 
Time  of  the  profoundeft  Peace,  had  fur- 
render'd  to  them.  Then  we  decamp'd,  and 
march'd  to  Mechlin  ;  where  we  lay  in  the 
Field  till  near  November.  Not  that  there 
was  any  War  proclaim'd  ;  but  as  not  know- 
ing ,  whether  thofe  who  had  committed 
fuch  Afe  of  Hoftility  in  time  of  Peace, 
D  3  might 


C  38 1 

plight  not  take  it  in  their  Heads  to  proceed 
yet  further.  In  November  we  march'd  into 
that  Town,  where  Count  Nwelle  was  Go- 
vernor: The  Marquifs  de  Grana^  at  the 
fame  time,  governing  the  Netherlands  in 
the  Jurifdi&ion  of  Spain. 

Nothing  of  any  Moment  happen'd  after 

this,  till   the  Death  of  King   Charles  II, 

The  Summer  after  which,  the  three  Englijh 

Engiifh    and  three  Scotch  Regiments  receiv'd  Orders 

^Scotch to  pafs  over  into  England^  upon  the  Occa- 

Kegimems  fi     0{  Monmouth's  Rebellion ;  where,  upon 

fa/j  over  *       •       1  •    ■>  1    ^    j 

mo  E»g-  our  Arrival,  we  receiv  d  Orders  to  encamp 
Jindo  •'  on  Hounjlow-Heath*  But  that  Rebellion 
being  foon  ftified,  and  King  James  having 
no  farther  Need  of  us,  thofe  Regiments 
were  order' d  to  return  again  to  Holland^ 
into  the  proper  Service  of  thofe  who  paid 
them. 

Tho'  I  am  no  ftiff  Adherer  to  the  Doc- 
trine of  Predeftination,  yet  to  the  full  Affu- 
rance  of  a  Providence  I  never  could  fail  to 
adhere.  Thence  came  it,  that  my  natural 
Defire  to  ferve  my  own  native  Country 
prevailed  upon  me  to  quit  the  Service  of  an- 
other, though  its  Neighbour  and  Allie, 
Events  are  not  always  to  direct  the  Judg- 
ment j  and  therefore  whether  I  did  bed  in, 
following  thofe  fondling  Di&ates  of  Nature^ 
I  fhall  neither  queftion  nor  determine. 

However,  it  was  not  long  after  my  Ar- 
rival in  England  before  I  had  9  Commiffion 

giveq 


[  39  ] 

given  me  by  King  James,  to  be  a  Lieute- 
nant in  a  new  rais'd  Regiment  under  the 
Command  of  Colonel  Tufton,  Brother  to 
the  Earl  of  Thanet.  Under  this  Commif- 
fion  I  fojourn'd  out  two  peaceable  Cam- 
paigns on  Hounjlow-Heath ;  where  I  was  an 
Eye- Witnefs  of  one  mock  Siege  of  Buda : 
After  which  our  Regiment  was  order'd  to 
Berwick,  where  I  remained  till  the  Revo- 
lution. 

King  James  having  abdicated  the*. jamea 
Throne,  and  the  Prince  of  Orange  accepting  at^f'fref 
the  Adminiftration,  all  Commiffions  were 
order'd  to  be  renew'd  in  his  Name,  The 
Officers  of  our  Regiment,  as  well  as  others, 
feverally  took  out  theirs  accordingly ,-  a 
very  few  excepted,  of  which  Number  was 
our  Colonel ,-  who  refufing  a  Compliance, 
his  Commiflion  was  given  to  Sir  James 
Lefley. 

The  Prince  of  Orange  prefently  after prince  of 
was  declar'd  and  proclaim'd  King,  and  his°ran§e 
Princefs  Queen,  with  a  conjun&ive  Power.  2ing™ 
Upon  which  our  Regiment  was  order'd  into 
Scotland,  where  Aftairs  appear'd  under  a 
Face  of  Difquietude.     "We  had  our  Quar- 
ters at  Leith,  till  the  Time  the  Caftle  of 
Edinburgh  then  under  the  Command  of  the 
Duke  oi  Gordon,  had  furrender'd.      After 
which,    purfuant    to    frefh    Orders,     we 
march'd  to  Imernefs,  a  Place  of  no  great 
Strength.,  and  as  little  Beauty^  though  yet 
D  4  1  think 


[4*1 

I  think  I  may  fay,  without  the  leaft  Danger 
of  an  Hyperbole^  that  it  is  as  pleafant  as 
mod  Places  in  that  Country.  Here  we  lay 
two  long  Winters,  perpetually  harrafs'd 
upon  Parties,  and  hunting  of  fomewhat 
wilder  than  their  wildeft  Game,  namely, 
the  Highlanders ,  who  were,  if  not  as 
nimble  footed,  yet  fully  as  hard  to  be 
found. 

But  General  Mackay  having  receiv'd 
Orders  to  build  a  Fort  at  Inverlochy,  our 
Regiment,  among  others,  was  commanded 
to  that  Service.  The  two  Regiments  ap- 
pointed on  the  fame  Duty,  with  fome  few 
Dragoons,  were  already  on  their  March, 
which  having  join'd,  we  march'd  together 
through  Louquebar.  This  fure  is  the  wildeft 
Country  in  the  Highlands,  if  not  in  the 
"World.  I  did  not  fee  one  Houfe  in  all 
our  March ;  and  their  Oeconomy,  if  I  may 
callitfuch,  is  much  the  fame  with  that  of  the 
Arabs  or  Tartars.  Hutts,  or  Cabins  of 
Trees  and  Traih,  are  their  Places  of  Habi- 
tation,-  in  which  they  dwell,  till  their  half- 
honf  d  Cattle  have  devour'd  the  Grafs,  and 
then  remove,  Haying  no  where  longer  than 
that  Convenience  invites  them. 

In  this  March,  or  rather,  if  you  pleafe, 
mod  difmal  Peregrination,  we  could  but 
very  rarely  go  two  on  a  Breaft  ;  and  oftner, 
like  Gccze  in  a  String,  one  after  another. 
So  that  our  very  little  Army  had  fometimes, 

or 


L  4»  J 

or  rather  moft  commonly,  an  Extent  of 
many  Miles  ;  our  Enemy,  the  Highlanders^ 
firing  down  upon  us  from  their  Summits  all 
the  Way.  Nor  was  it  poflible  for  our  Men, 
or  very  rarely  at  leaft,  to  return  their  Fa- 
vours with  any  Profpeft  of  Succefs ;  for  as 
they  pop'd  upon  us  always  on  a  fudden,  they 
never  ftay'd  long  enough  to  allow  any  of 
our  Soldiers  a  -  Mark  ;  or  even  time  enough 
to  fire :  And  for  our  Men  to  march,  or 
climb  up  thofe  Mountains,  which  to  them 
were  natural  Champion,  would  have  been 
as  dangerous  as  it  feeirTd  to  us  impracticable. 
Neverthelefs,  under  all  theie  difheartning 
Difadvantages,  we  arriv'd  at  Inverlochy, 
and  there  perform'd  the  Task  appointed, 
building  a  Fort  on  the  fame  Spot  where 
Cromwell  had  rais'd  one  before.  And  which 
wras  not  a  little  remarkable,  we  had  with 
us  one  Hill)  a  Colonel,  who  had  been  Go- 
vernor in  Oliver  s  Time,  and  who  was  now 
again  appointed  Governor  by  General  Mac- 
kay.  Thus  the  Work  on  which  we  were 
fent  being  effe&ed,  we  march'd  back  again 
by  the  Way  of  Gillycrancky,  where  that 
memorable  Battle  under  'Dundee  had  been 
fought  the  Year  before. 

Some  time  after,  Sir  Thomas  Levmgftcn, 
afterwards  Earl  of  Tiviot,  having  receiv'd 
Intelligence  that  the  Highlanders  intended 
to  fall  down  into  the  lower  Countries,  in 
a  confiderabie  Body,    got  together  a  Party 

of 


£4*3 

of  about  five  Hundred  (the  Dragoons,  call'd 
the  Scotch  Greys ,  inclufive)  with  which  he 
refolv'd,  if  poilible,  to  give  them  a  Meet- 
ing. We  left  Invemefs  the  laft  Day  of 
Jpril,  and  encamp'd  near  a  little  Town 
call'd  Forrefi,  the  Place  where,  as  Tradi- 
tion ftill  confidently  avers,  the  Witches  met 
Mackbeth^  and  greeted  him  with  their  dia- 
bolical Aufpices.  But  this  Story  is  fo  natu- 
rally difplay'd  in  a  Play  of  the  immortal 
Shake/pear ,  that  I  need  not  defcend  here 
to  any  farther  Particulars. 

Here  Sir  'Thomas  receiv'd  Intelligence, 

that  the  Highlanders  defign'd  to  encamp 

upon  the  Spey,  near  the  Laird  of  Grant's 

Caftle.     Whereupon  we  began  our  March 

about  Noon  ,-  and  the  next  Day,  about  the 

Break  thereof,    we   came  to  that  River, 

where  we  foon  difcover'd  the  Highlanders 

by  their  Fires.     Sir  Thomas  immediately, 

on  Sight  of  it,  iffued  his  Orders  for  our 

fording  the  River,  and  falling  upon  them  as 

High-      foon  after  as  poffible.  Both  were  according- 

ianeiers     ]y  perform'd,  and  with  fo  good  Order,  Se- 

JSfi      crecy  and  Succefs,  that  Cannon  and  <Balfoary 

their  Commanders,   were  obliged  to  make 

their  Efcape  naked. 

They  were  about  one  Thoufand  in  Num- 
ber, of  which  were  kill'd  about  three  Hun- 
dred j  we  purfued  them,  till  they  got  up 
Crcwdak-Hi/l,  where  we  loft  them  in  a 
fog.     And,  indeed^  fo  high  is  that  Hill, 

that 


C  43  ] 

that  they,  who  perfectly  knew  it,  affured 
me,  that  it  never  is  without  a  little  dark 
Fog  hanging  over  it.  And  to  me,  at  that 
Inftant  of  Time,  they  feem'd  rather  to  be 
People  receiv'd  up  into  Clouds,  than  flying 
from  an  Enemy. 

Near  this  there  was  an  old  Caftle,  calFd 
Lethendy-i  into  which  about  Fifty  of  them 
made  their  Retreat,  moft  of  them  Gentle- 
men, refolving  there  to  defend  themfelves 
to  the  laft.  Sir  Thomas  fent  a  Meffenger 
to  them,  with  an  Offer  of  Mercy,  if  they 
would  furrender  :  But  they  refus'd  the 
profer'd  Quarter,  and  fir'd  upon  our  Men, 
killing  two  of  our  Grenadiers,  and  wound- 
ing another.  During  my  Quarters  at  the 
Grave,  having  learnt  to  throw  a  Grenado3 
I  took  three  or  four  in  a  Bag,  and  crept 
down  by  the  Side  of  a  Ditch,  or  Dyke,  to 
an  old  thatch'd  Houfe  near  the  Caftle,  ima- 
gining, on  my  mounting  the  fame,  I  might 
be  near  enough  to  throw  them,  fo  as  to  do 
execution.  I  found  all  Things  anfwer  my 
Expectation  ;  and  the  Caftle  wanting  a 
Cover,  I  threw  in  a  Grenado,  which  put 
the  Enemy  immediately  into  Confufion. 
The  Second  had  not  fo  good  Succefs,  falling 
fliort ;  and  the  Third  burft  as  foon  as  it  was 
well  out  of  my  Hand,  though  without  Da- 
mage to  my  fel£  But  throwing  the  Fourth 
in  at  a  Window,  it  fo  increas'd  the  Confu- 
fion3  which  the  firft  had  put  them  into,  that 
%  they 


[  44  ] 

they  immediately  calFd  out  to  me,  upon 
their  Parole  of  Safety,  to  come  to  them. 

Accordingly  I  went  up  to  the  Door, 
which  they  had  barricaded,  and  made  up 
with  great  Stones ;  when  they  told  me  they 
were  ready  to  furrender  upon  Condition 
of  obtaining  Mercy.  I  returned  to  Sir 
Thomas  ;  and  telling  him  what  I  had  done, 
and  the  Confequence  of  it,  and  the  Meflage 
they  had  defied  me  to  deliver  (a  great 
many  of  the  Highland  Gentlemen,  not  of 
this  Party,  being  with  him)  Sir  ^Thomas, 
in  a  high  Voice,  and  broad  Scotch,  beft  to 
be  heard  and  underftood,  order 'd  me  back 
to  tell  'em,  He  would  cut  them  all  to  Pieces, 
for  their  Murder  of  two  of  his  Grenadiers, 
after  hisTrofer  of  Quarter. 

I  was  returning  full  of  thefe  melancholy 
Tidings,  when  Sir  Thomas,  advancing  after 
me  a  little  Diftance  from  the  reft  of  the 
Company ;  Hark  ye,  Sir,  fays  he,  /  be- 
lieve there  may  be  among  "emfome  of  our  old 
Acquaintance  (for  we  had  ferv'd  together 
in  the  Service  of  the  States  in  Flanders) 
therefore  tell  them  they  JJoall  have  good 
Qiiarter.  I  very  willingly  carry 'd  back  a 
Meffage  fo  much  chang'd  to  my  Mind  ;  and 
upon  delivering  of  it,  without  the  leaft  He- 
iitation,  they  threw  down  the  Barricado, 
open'd  the  Door,  and  out  came  one  Srody, 
who,  as  he  then  told  me,  had  had  a  Piece 
of  his  Nofe  taken  off  by  one  of  my  Gre- 

nadoes. 


[  45  ] 

nadoes.  I  carry 'd  him  to  Sir  Thomas,  who 
confirming  my  MefTage,  they  all  came  out, 
and  furrendered  themfelves  Prifoners.  This 
happen'd  on  May  Day  in  the  Morning ;  for 
which  Reafon  we  return'd  to  Invernefs 
with  our  Prifoners,  and  Boughs  in  our  Hats; 
and  the  Highlanders  never  held  up  their 
Heads  fo  high  after  this  Defeat. 

Upon  this  Succefs  Sir  Thomas  wrote  to 
Court,  giving  a  full  Account  of  the  whole 
Adtion.  In  which  being  pleasM  to  make 
mention  of  my  Behaviour,  with  fome  Parti- 
cularities, I  had  foon  after  a  Com  million 
ordered  me  for  a  Company  in  the  Regiment 
under  the  Command  of  Brigadier  Tiffin. 

My  Commiflion  being  made  out,  fign'd, 
and  fent  to  me,  I  repaired  immediately  to 
Tortfinouth)  where  the  Regiment  lay  in 
Garrifon.  A  few  Days  after  I  had  been 
there.  Admiral  Ruffel  arrived  with  the  Fleet, 
and  anchor'd  at  St.  Helleiis^  where  he  re- 
main'd  about  a  Week.  On  the  18th  of 
May  the  whole  Fleet  fet  Sail ,-  and  it  being 
my  Turn  the  fame  Day  to  mount  the  Main 
Guard,  I  was  going  the  Rounds  very  early, 
when  I  heard  great  fhooting  at  Sea.  I  went 
direftly  to  acquaint  the  Governor,  and  told 
him  my  Sentiments,  that  the  two  contending 
Fleets  were  actually  engaged,  which  indeed 
prov'd  true  ;  for  that  very  Night  a  Pinnace, 
which  came  from  our  Fleet,  brought  News 
that  Admiral  Ruffe i  had  engag'd  the  French 

Admiral 


[46] 

Admiral  Turvile ;  and,  after  a  long  and 
fliarp  Difpute,  was  making  after  them  to 
their  own  Coafts. 

The  next  Day,  towards  Evening,  fe ve- 
ra! other  Expreffes  arriv'd,  one  after  an- 
other, all  agreeing  in  the  Defeat  of  the 
French  Fleet,  and  in  the  Particulars  of  the 
burning  their  Rifing  Sun,  together  with 
many  other  of  their  Men  of  War,  at  la 
Hogue.  All  which  Expreffes  were  imme- 
diately forwarded  to  Court  by  Mr.  Gibfon, 
our  Governor. 

About  two  Months  after  this,  our  Re* 
giment,  among  many  others^  was,  according 
to  Order,  ftiipp'd  off  on  a  Secret  Expedi^ 
tion,  under  the  Command  of  the  Duke  of 
Leinfter^  no  Man  knowing  to  what  Place 
we  were  going,  or  on  what  Defign  ;  no,  not 
the  Commander  himfelf.  However,  when 
we  were  out  at  Sea,  the  General,  according 
to  Inftru&ions,  opening  his  Commiifton,  we 
were  foon  put  out  of  our  Sufpence,  and  in- 
form'd,  that  our  Orders  were  to  attack 
^Dunkirk.  But  what  was  fo  grand  a  Secret 
to  thofe  concern'd  in  the  Expedition,  having 
been  intrufted  to  a  Female  Politician  on 
Land,  it  was  foon  difcover'd  to  the  Enemy ; 
for  which  Reafon  our  Orders  were  counter- 
manded, before  we  reach'd  the  Place  of 
Aftion,  and  our  Forces  receiv'd  Directions 
to  land  at  Oftend. 

Soon 


C  47  3 

Soon  after  this  happen'd  that  memorable  Battle** 
Battle  at  Stcenhrk,  which  as  very  few  atSt€enkirka 
that  Time  could  dive  into  the  Reafon  of, 
and  miftaken  Accounts  of  it  have  pafs'd  for 
authentick,  I  will  mention  fomewhat  more 
particularly  :  The  Undertaking  was  bold  • 
and,  as  many  thought,  bolder  than  was 
confident  with  the  Character  of  the  wife 
Undertaker.  Neverthelefs ,  the  French 
having  taken  Namure  -,  and,  as  the  Male- 
contents  alledg'd,  in  the  very  Sight  of  a  fu- 
perior  Army  ;  and  nothing  having  been 
done  by  Land  of  any  moment,  Things 
were  blown  into  fuch  a  dangerous  Fermen- 
tation, by  a  malicious  and  lying  Spirit, 
that  King  William  found  himfelf  under  a 
Neceflity  of  attempting  fomething  that 
might  appeafe  the  Murmurs  of  the  People. 
He  knew  very  well,  though  fpoke  in  the 
Senate,  that  it  was  not  true,  that  his  Forces 
at  the  Siege  of  Namure  exceeded  thofe  of 
the  Enemy  ;  no  Man  could  be  more  affii&ed 
than  he  at  the  overflowing  of  the  Mebaigne^ 
from  the  continual  Rains,  which  obftru&ed 
the  Relief  he  had  defign'd  for  that  important 
Place  ;  yet  fince  his  Maligners  made  an  ill 
Ufe  of  thefe  falfe  Topicks,  to  infinuate  that 
he  had  no  Mind  to  put  an  End  to  the  War, 
he  was  refolv'd  to  evince  the  contrary,  by 
ftiewing  them  that  he  was  not  afraid  to  ven- 
ture his  Life  for  the  better  obtaining  what 
was  fo  much  deflred. 

To 


t  4*  1 

To  that  Purpofe,  receiving  Intelligence 
that  the  Duke  of  Luxemburg  lay  ftrongly 
encamp'd  at  Steenhrk^  near  Evghien  (tho* 
he  was  fenfible  he  muft  pafs  through  many 
Defiles  to  engage  him;  and  that  the  many 
Thickets  between  the  two  Armies  would 
frequently  afford  him  new  Difficulties)  he 
refolv'd  there  to  attack  him.     Our  Troops 
at  firft  were  forc'd  to  hew  out  their  Paflage 
for  the  Horfe ;  and  there  was  no  one  Diffi- 
culty that  his  Imagination  had  drawn  that 
was  leffen'd   by  Experience  ;   and  yet  fo 
profperous  were  his  Arms  at  the  Beginning, 
that    our    Troops    had    made    themfelves 
Matters  of  feveral  Pieces  of  the  Enemy's 
Cannon.     But  the  farther  he  advanced,  the 
Ground  growing  ftraiter,  fo  ftrait  as  not  to 
admit  his  Army's  being  drawn  up  in  Bat- 
talia,  the  Troops   behind  could  not  give 
timely  Succour  to  thofe  engag'd,  and  the 
Cannon  we  had  taken  was  forcibly  left  be- 
hind in  order  to  make  a  good  Retreat.    The 
French  had  loft  all  their  Courage  in  the 
Onfet ;  for  though  they  had  too  fair  an  Op- 
portunity, they  did  not  think  fit  to  purfue 
it;  or,  at  leaft,  did  it  very  languidly.    How- 
ever, the  Malecontents  at  Home,  I  remem- 
ber, grew  very  well  pleased  after  this;  for 
fo  long  as  they  had  but  a  Battle  for  their 
Money,  like  true  EngUfomen>  loft  or  won, 
they  were  contented. 

i  Several 


[49] 

Several  Caufes,   I  remember,  were 
affign'd  for  this  Mifcarriage,  as  they  call'd 
it:  Some  there  were  who  were  willing  to 
lay  it  upon  the  "Dutch  ;  and  alledge  a  Say- 
ing of  one  of  their  Generals,  who  receiving 
Orders  to  relieve  fome  EngliJJj  and  Scotch 
that  were  over-power'd,  was  heard  to  fay^ 
Dam  'em,  fince  they  love  Fighting  let  "em 
have  their  'Bellies  full.    But  I  iliould  rather 
impute  the   Difappointment   to    the  great 
Lofs  of  fo  many  of  our  braveft  Officers  at 
the  very  firft   Onfet.      General  Mackay , 
Colonel  Lanier,  the  Earl  of  Angus,  with 
both  his  Field-Officers,  Sir  RohertDouglas^ 
Colonel  Hodges,  and  many  others  falling, 
it  was  enough  to  put  a  very  confiderable 
Army  into  Confufion.    I  remember  one  par- 
ticular A&ion  of  Sir  Robert  Douglas,  that 
I  fliould  think  my  felf  to  blame  fhould  I 
omit :  Seeing  his  Colours  on  the  other  Side 
the  Hedge,  in  the  Hands  of  the  Enemy,  he 
leap'd  over,  flew  the  Officer  that  had  themi 
and  then  threw  them  over  the  Hedge  to  his 
Company  j    redeeming  his  Colours  at  the 
Expenfe  of  his  Life.      Thus  the   Scotch 
Commander  improv'd  upon  the  Roman  Ge- 
neral ;  for  the  brave  Tofthumhis  caft  his  Stan- 
dard in  the  Middle  of  the  Enemy  for  his 
Soldiers  to  retrieve,  but  Douglas  retrieved 
his  from  the  Middle  of  the  Enemy,  -without 
anyAfliftance,  and  caft  it  back  to  his  Soldiers 

E  to 


[5°1 

to  retain,  after  he  had  fo  bravely  refcued  it 
oat  of  the  Hands  of  the  Enemy. 

From  hence  our  Regiment  receiv'd  Or- 
ders to  march  to  jDixmnyd,  where  we  lay 
fome  time  employ'd  in  fortifying  that  Place. 
While  we  were  there,  I  had  one  Morning 
ftedfaftly  fix'd  my  Eyes  upon  fome  Ducks, 
that  were  fwimming  in  a  large  Water  be- 
fore me$  when  all  on  a  fudden,  in  the  Midft 
of  a  perfect  Calm,  1  obferv'd  fuch  a  flrange 
and  ltrong  Agitation  in  the  Waters,  that 
prodigioufly  furpriz'd  me.     I  was  at  the 
fame  Moment  feiz'd  with  fuch  a  Giddinefs 
in  my  Head,  that,  for  a  Minute  or  two,  I 
was  fcarce  fenfible,  and  had  much  a-do  to 
keep  on  my  Legs.     I  had  never  felt  any 
thing  of  an  Earthquake  before,  which,  as 
I   foon  after  underftood  from  others,  this 
was;   and   it  left,    indeed,    very  apparent 
Marks  of  its  Force  in  a  great  Rent  in  the 
Body  of  the  great  Church,  which  remains 
to  this  Day. 

Having  brought  the  intended  Fortifica- 
tions into  fome  tolerable  Order,  we  receiv'd 
a  Command  out  of  hand  to  reimbarque  for 
England.  And,  upoaour  Landing,  Direc- 
tions met  us  to  march  for  Ipfwich,  where 
we  had  our  Quarters  all  that  Winter. 
From  thence  we  were  ordered  up  to  London^ 
to  do  Duty  in  the  Tower.  I  had  not  been 
there  long,  before  an  Accident  happen'd,  as 

little 


[5'  ] 

little  to  be  accounted  for,  without  a  divine 
Providence,  as  fbme  wduld  make  that  Pro- 
vidence to  be,  that  only  can  account  for  it. 

There  was  at  that  Time,  as  I  wasAdang£ 
affur'd  by  my  Lord  Lucas,  Conftable  of  it,™'  Acci' 
upwards  of  tWentyThoufand  Barrels  of  Gun-  4lvrtv  If 
powder,  in  that  they  call  the  Whit e-Tovtfer^on&on. 
when  all  at  once  the  middle  Flooring  did 
not  only  give  wayj  or  fhrink,  but  fell  flat 
down  upon  other  Barrels  of  Powder,  together 
with  many  of  the  fame  combuftible  Matter 
which  had  been  placed  upon  it.  It  was  a 
Providence  ftrangely  negle&ed  at  that  Time, 
and  hardly  thought  of  fince :  But  let  any 
confiderate  Man  eonfult  the  Confequences, 
if  it  had  taken  fire  ,•  perhaps  to  the  Deduc- 
tion of  the  whole  City^  or,  at  leaft,  as  far 
as  the  Bridge  and  Parts  adjadent.  Let  his 
Thoughts  proceed  to  examine,  why  orhoWjj 
in  that  precipitate  Fall,  not  one  Nail,  nor 
one  Piece  of  Iron,  in  that  large  Fabrickj 
fhould  afford  one  little  Spark  to  enflame 
that  Mafs  of  fulphurous  Matteir  it  was 
loaded  with  j  and  if  he  is  at  a  lofs  to  find  a 
Providence,  I  fear  his  Friends  will  be  more 
at  a  lofs  to  find  his  Uftderftanding.  But 
the  Battle  of  Land  en  happening  while  our 
Regiment  was  here  on  Duty,  we  were  foon 
remov'd  to  our  Satisfa&ion  from  that  paci^ 
fick  Station,  to  one  more  active  in  Flmderu 

Notwithstanding   that    fatal    Battle 

theYeaf  preceding^  namely,  A.  2).  1 694.  the 

E  ^  Gon^ 


[5»] 

Confederate  Army  under  King  William  lay 
encamp'd  at  Mont  St.  Andre ',  an  open  Place, 
and  much  expos'd  $  while  the  French  were 
entrench'd  up  to  their  very  Teeth,  at  Vig- 
namont)  a  little  Diftance  from  us.  This 
afforded  Matter  of  great  Reflexion  to  the 
Politicians  of  thofe  Times,  who  could  hard- 
ly allow,  that  if  the  Confederate  Army 
fuffer'd  fo  much,  as  it  really  did  in  the 
Battle  of  Landen,  it  could  confift  with  right 
Condud  to  tempt,  or  rather  dare  a  new 
Engagement.  But  thofe  fage  Obje&ors  had 
forgot  the  well-known  Courage  of  that 
brave  Prince,  and  were  as  little  capable  of 
fathoming  his  Defigns.  The  Enemy,  who 
to  their  Sorrow  had  by  Experience  been 
made  better  Judges,  was  refolv'd  to  tra- 
verfe  both ;  for  which  Purpofe  they  kept 
clofe  within  their  Entrenchments ;  fo  that 
after  all  his  Efforts,  King  William  finding 
he  could  no  way  draw  them  to  a  Battle, 
fuddenly  decamp'd,  and  march'd  dire&ly 
to  Tent  EfpierS)  by  long  Marches,  with 
a  Defign  to  pafs  the  French  Lines  at  that 
Place. 

But  notwithftanding  our  Army  march'd 
in  a  direft  Line,  to  our  great  Surprize,  we 
found  the  Enemy  had  firft  taken  pofTeffion 
of  it.  They  gave  this  the  Name  of  the 
Long  March,  and  very  defervedly  ,•  for 
though  our  Army  march'd  upon  the  String, 
and  the  Enemy  upon  the  Bow,  fenfible  of 

;  the 


[53] 

the  Importance  of  the  Poft,  and  the  Necefi- 
fity  of  feeuring  it,  by  double  horfeing  with 
their  Foot,  and  by  leaving  their  Weary  and 
"Weak  in  their  Garrifons,  and  fupplying 
their  Places  with  frefti  Men  out  of  them, 
they  gain'd  their  Point  in  difappointing  us* 
Though  certain  it  is,  that  March  coft  'em  as 
many  Men  and  Horfes  as  a  Battle.  How- 
ever their  Mafter,  the  French  King,  was  fo 
pleas'd  with  their  indefatigable  and  aufpi- 
cious  Diligence^  that  he  wrote,  with  his 
own  Hand,  a  Letter  of  Thanks  to  the 
Officers,  for  the  great  Zeal  and  Care  they 
had  taken  to  prevent  the  Confederate  Army; 
from  entring  into  French  Flanders* 

King  William^  thus  difappointed  in  that 
noble  Defign,  gave  immediate  Orders  for 
his  whole  Army  to  march  through  Oude- 
nard)  and  then  encamp 'd  at  Rofendak  $ 
after  fome  little  Stay  at  that  Camp  we 
were  remov'd  to  the  Camerlins>  between 
Newport  and  OJiend,  once  more  to  take 
our  Winter  Quarters  there  among  the 
Boors. 

We  were  now  in  the  Year  1 69  5.  when  Namur" 
the  ftrong  Fortrefs  of  Nawur,  taken  by^|^A 
the  French  in  16^2.  and  fince  made  by  them  AthioiL 
much  ftronger,  was  inverted  by  the  Earl  of 
Jthlone.  After  very  many  vigorous  Attacks, 
with  the  Lofs  of  many  Men,  the  Town  was 
taken,  the  Garrifon  retiring  into  the  Caftle, 
^nto  which  foon  after,  notwithftanding  all 
E  3  the 


[  5*  ] 

the  Circumfpe&ion  of  the  Befiegers,  Mare£ 
chal  Souffers  found  means,  with  fome  Dra- 
goons, to  throw  himfelf. 
vrhce  While  King  William  was  thus  engag'd 

Vaudf" ,  in  that  glorious  and  important  Sie^e,  Prince 
riousRe-  Yctudemont  being  poked  at  Watergaem^ 
treat,  wjtn  about  fifty  Battallions,  and  as  many 
Squadrons,  the  Marefchal  Vilhroy  laid  a 
Defign  to  attack  him  with  the  whole  French 
Army.  The  Prince  imagin'd  no  lefs,  there- 
fore he  prepar'd  accordingly,  giving  us  Or- 
ders to  fortify  our  Camp,  as  well  as  the  little 
time  we  had  for  it  would  permit  Thofe 
Orders  were  purfu'd  j  neverthelefs,  I  muft 
confefs,  it  was  beyond  the  Reach  of  my 
little  Reafon  to  account  for  our  fo  long 
Stay  in  the.  Sight  of  an  Army  fomuch  fupe- 
rior  to  ours.  The  Prince  in  the  Whole 
could  hardly  mufter  thirty  Thoufand  ;  and 
Tfilkrcy  was  known  to  value  himfelf  upon 
having  one  Hundred  Thoufand  effective 
Men,  However,  the  Prince  provisionally 
fent  away  all  our  Baggage  that  very  Mor- 
ning to  Ghent*,  and  (till  made  fhew  as  if  he 
j-efohrd  to  defend  himfelf  to  the  laft  Extre- 
mity in  our  little  Entrenchments.  The 
Enemy  on  their  Side  began  to  furround  us ; 
and  in  their  Motions  for  that  Purpofe,  blew 
up  little  Bags  of  iGun-powder,  to  give  the 
readier  Notice  how  far  they  had  accom- 
plifh'd  it.  Another  Captain,  with  my  fel£> 
being  plac  d  on  the  Right,  with  one  Hun- 
dred 


C  55  3 

dred  Men  (where  I  found  Monfieur  Mental 
endeavouring,  if  poffible,  to  get  behind  us) 
I  could  eafily  obferve,  they  had  fo  far  at- 
tained their  Aim  of  encompaffing  us,  as  to 
the  very  Fafhion  of  a  Horfe's  Shoe.  This 
made  me  fix  my  Eyes  fo  intently  upon  the 
advancing  Enemy,  that  I  never  minded 
what  my  Friends  w7ere  doing  behind  me ; 
though  I  afterwards  found  that  they  had 
been  fileing  off  fo  very  artfully  and  private- 
ly, by  that  narrow  Opening  of  the  Horfe- 
Shoe,  that  when  the  Enemy  imagin'd  us 
paft  a  PoiTibility  of  Efcape,  our  little  Army 
at  once,  and  of  a  fudden,  was  ready  to  dis- 
appear. There  was  a  large  Wood  on  the 
Right  of  our  Army,  through  which  lay  the 
Road  to  Ghent,  not  broader  than  to  admit 
of  more  than  Four  to  march  a-  bread.  Down 
this  the  Prince  had  flid  his  Forces,  except 
to  that  very  fmall  Party  which  the  Captain 
and  my  felf  commanded,  and  which  was  de- 
fignedly  left  to  bring  up  the  Rear.  Nor 
did  we  ftir  till  Captain  Collier \  then  Aid  de 
Camp  to  his  Brother,  now  Earl  of  Tort- 
?nore,  came  with  the  Word  of  Command 
for  us  to  draw  off. 

When  Vilkroy  was  told  of  our  Retreat, 
he  was  much  furpriz'd^  as  thinking  it  a 
Thing  utterly  impoffible.  However,  at  laft, 
being  fenfible  of  the  Truth  of  it,  he  gave 
Orders  for  our  Rear  to  be  attack'd  ,•  but  we 
kept  fircing  from  Ditch  to  Ditch,  and 
E  4  Hedge 


Hedge  to  Hedge,  till  Night  came  Upon  us  $ 
and  fo  our  little  Army  got  clear  of  its  gi- 
gantick  Enemy  with  very  inconfiderable 
Lofs.  However5  the  French  fail'd  not,  in 
their  cuftomary  Way,  to  exprefs  the  Senfe 
pf  their  Vexation,  at  this  Difappointment, 
with  Fire  and  Sword  in  the  Neighbourhood 
round.  Thus  Prince  Vaudemont  acquir'd 
more  Glory  by  that  Retreat  than  an  intirc 
Victory  could  have  given  him  -y  and  it  was 
not,  I  confefs,  the  leaft  Part  of  Satisfaction 
In  Life,  that  my  felf  had  a  Share  of  Honour 
under  him  to  bring  off  the  Rear  at  that  his 
glorious  Retreat  at  Arfeel. 

However,  in  further  Revenge  of  this  po- 
litical Chicane  of  the  Prince  of Vau demon tf, 
and  to  oblige,  if  poflible,  King  William  to 
raife  the  Siege  from  before  Namttr ,  Vi lie- 
toy  enter'd  into  the  Refolution  of  Bom- 
VHkfpy  barding  Jlruffells.  In  order  to  which  he 
Bruteif  encamp'd  at  Anderleck^  and  then  made  his 
Approaches  as  near  as  was  convenient  to  the 
Town,  There  he  causM  to  be  planted 
thirty  Mortars,  and  rais'd  a  Battery  of  ten 
Guns  to  fhoot  hot  Bullets  into  the  Place. 

But  before  they  fird  from  either,  Vffie-, 
roy^  in  complement  to  the  Duke  of  Bava- 
riar  fent  a  MefTenger  to  know  in  what 
part  of  the  Town  his  Dutchefs  chofe  to  re- 
fide,  that  they  might,  as  much  as  poflible, 
avoid  incommoding  her,  by  directing  their 

re  to  other  PartSo    Anfwer  was  return  \L 
1 


[57  3 

that  flie  was  at  her  ufual  Place  of  Refidences 
the  Palace  $  and  accordingly  their  fireing 
from  Battery  or  Mortars  little  incommoded 
them  that  Way. 

Five  Days  the  Bombardment  continu'd5 
and  with  fuch  Fury,  that  the  Centre  of  that 
noble  City  was  quite  lay'd  in  Rubbifh. 
Moft  of  the  Time  of  Bombarding  I  was 
upon  the  Counterfcarp,  where  I  could  beft 
fee  and  diftinguifh ;  and  I  have  often  counted 
In  the  Air,  at  one  time,  more  than  twenty 
Bombs ,•  for  they  iliot  whole  Vollies  out  of 
their  Mortars  all  together.  This,  as  it 
muft  needs  be  terrible,  threw  the  Inha- 
bitants into  the  utmoft  Confufion.  Cart- 
loads of  Nuns,  that  for  many  Years  before 
had  never  been  out  of  the  Cloifter,  were 
now  hurry 'd  about  from  Place  to  Place,  to 
find  Retreats  of  fome  Security.  In  fhort, 
the  Groves,  and  Parts  remote,  were  all 
crowded ;  and  the  moil  fpacious  Streets 
had  hardly  a  Spedtator  left  to  view  their 
Ruins.  Nothing  was  to  be  feen  like  that 
Dexterity  of  our  People  in  extinguishing 
the  Fires ;  for  where  the  red-hot  Bullets 
fell,  and  rais'd  new  Conflagrations,  not 
Burghers  only,  but  the  vulgar  Sort,  flood 
ftareing,  and  with  their  Hands  impocketted, 
beheld  their  Houfes  gradually  confume^  and 
without  offering  prudent  or  charitable  Hand 
to  flop  the  growing  Flames, 


Bu 


vilieroy        But  after  they  had  almoft  thus  deftroy'd 
decamp.  that  Jate  fair  q^  fyjer^  £nding  he  could 

not  raife  the  Siege  of  Namur,  by  that  vi- 
gorous Attack  upon  Sruffels,  decamp'd  at 
laft  from  before  it,  and  put  his  Army  on 
the  March,  to  try  if  he  could  have  better 
Succefs  by  exposing  to  Show  his  Pageant  of 
one  Hundred  Thoufand  Men.  Prince  Vau~ 
demont  had  timely  Intelligence  of  the  Duke's 
Rcfolution  and  Motion ;  and  refolv'd,  if 
poflible,  to  get  there  before  him.  Nor  was 
the  Attempt  fruitlefs :  He  fortunately  fuc- 
ceeded,  though  with  much  Fatigue,  and  no 
little  Difficulty,  after  he  had  put  a  Trick 
upon  the  Spies  of  the  Enemy,  by  pretending 
to  encamp,  and  fo  foon  as  they  were  gone 
ordering  a  full  March. 

The  Caftle  of  Namur  had  been  all  this 
Time  under  the  Fire  of  the  Befieger's  Can- 
non ;  and  foon  after  our  little  Army  under 
the  Prince  was  arrived,  a  Breach,  that  was 
imagin'd  practicable,  being  made  in  the 
Terra  Nova  (which,  as  the  Name  imports, 
was  a  new  Work,  rais'd  by  the  French,  and 
added  to  the  Fortifications,  fince  it  feil  into 
their  Hands  in  1692.  and  which  very  much 
increas'd  the  Strength  of  the  Whole)  a 
Breach,  as  I  have  faid,  being  made  in  this 
Terra  Nova,  a  Storm,  in  a  Council  of 
War,  was  refolv'd  upon.  Four  entire  Re- 
giments, in  conjunction  with  fome  Draughts 
made  out  of  feveral  others,  were  order'd 
1  for 


C  59  J 

for  that  Work,  my  felf  commanding  that 
Part  of  era  which  had  been  drawn  out  of 
Colonel  Tiffins.  We  were  all  to  rendevouze 
at  the  Abbey  of  Salfines^  under  the  Com- 
mand of  the  Lord  Cutts ;  the  Signal,  when 
the  Attack  was  to  be  made,  being  agreed  to 
be  the  blowing  up  of  a  Bag  of  Gun-powder 
upon  the  Bridge  of  Boats  that  lay  over  the 
Sambre. 

So  foon  as  the  Signal  was  made,   wei^Cutts 
march'd  up  to  the  Breach  with  a  decent^£**e 
Intrepidity,  receiving  ail  the  Way  we  ad-Namur ; 
vanc'd  the  full  Fire  of  the  Cohom  Fort.     But hut  oblk'd 
as  foon  as  we  came  near  enough  to  mount Joretm' 
we  found  it  vaftly  fteep  and  rugged.     Not- 
withftanding  all  which,  feveral  did  get  up, 
and  enter'd  the  Breach ;  but  not  being  fup- 
ported  as  they  ought  to  have  been,  they 
were  all  made  Prifoners.     Which,  together 
with  a  Wound  my  Lord  Cutts  receiv'd, 
after  we  had  done  all  that  was  poiTible  for 
us,  neceffitated  us  to  retire  with  the  Ldfs  of 
many  of  our  Men. 

^  VILLEROT  all  this  while  lay  in 
fight,  with  his  Army  of  One  Hundred  Thou- 
fand  Men,  without  making  the  lead  Offer 
to  incommode  the  Befiegers  ;  or  even  with- 
out doing  any  thing  more  than  make  his  Ap- 
pearance in  favour  of  the  Befieged,  and  re- 
connoitring our  Encampment :  And,  at  laft, 
feeing,  or  imagining  that  he  faw,  the  At- 
tempt would  be  to  little  purpofe,  with  all 

the 


[6o] 

the  good  Manners  in  the  World.,  in  the 
Night,  he  withdrew  that  terrible  Meteor, 
and  reliev'd  our  poor  Horfes  from  feeding 
on  Leaves,  the  only  Inconvenience  he  had 
put  us  to. 

rtecafik      This   Retreat    leaving    the    Garrifon 

f*fi»lat"  without  all  Hope  of  Relief,  they  in  the 
Caftle  immediately  capitulated.  But  after 
one  of  the  Gates  had  been,  according  to 
Articles,  delivered  up,  and  Count  Guifcard 
was  marching  out  at  the  Head  of  the  Gar- 
rifon, and  Honflers  at  the  Head  of  the  Dra- 
goons ;  the  latter  was,  by  order  of  King 
William^  arretted,  in  reprize  of  the  Garri-. 
fon  of  'Dixmuyd  (who,  contrary  to  the 
Cartel^  had  been  detain'd  Prifoners)  and 
remaind  under  Arreft  till  they  were  fet 
free, 

rjfajpna~       At  the  very  Beginning  of  the  Year  1 696. 

mn  plot.  was  difcover'd  a  Plot,  fit  only  to  have  had 
its  Origin  from  Hell  or  Rome.  A  Plot, 
which  would  have  put  Hottentots  and  Bar- 
barians out  of  Countenance,  This  was  calFd 
the  dffafffflation  Plot,  from  the  Defign  of 
it,  which  was  to  have  affaffinated  King 
William  a  little  before  the  Time  of  his  ufual 
leaving  England  to  head  the  Army  of  the 
Confederates  in  Flanders.,  And  as  nothing 
could  give  a  nobler  Idea  of  the  great  Cha- 
racter of  that  Prince  than  fuch  a  nefarious 
Combination  againit  him ;  fo,  with  all  con- 
iiderate  Men,  nothing  could  more  depreciate 

the 


[6i] 

the  Caufe  of  his  inconfiderate  Enemies.  If 
I  remember  what  I  have  read,  the  Sons  of 
ancient  Rome,  though  Heathens,  behav'd 
themfelves  againft  an  Enemy  in  a  quite  dif- 
ferent Manner.  Their  Hiftorians  afforcf  us 
more  Inflances  than  a  few  of  their  generous 
Intimations  to  Kings  and  Generals,  under 
actual  Hoftilities,  of  barbarous  Defigns  upon 
their  Lives.  I  proceed  to  this  of  our  own 
Countrymen. 

Soon  after  the  Difcovery  had  been  made, 
by  Perfons  actually  engag'd  in  that  inhuman 
Defign,  the  Regiment,  in  which  I  ferv'd^ 
with  fome  others  then  in  Flanders*,  receiv'd 
Orders,  with  all  Expedition,  to  embarque 
for  TLnglandi  though,  on  our  Arrival  at 
Gravefend,  frefh  Orders  met  us  to  remain 
on  board  the  Tranfports,  till  we  had  fur- 
ther Dire&ions. 

On  my  going  to  London^  a  few  Days 
after,  I  was  told,  that  two  Regiments  only 
were  now  defign'd  to  come  a-fhore ;  and 
that  the  reft  would  be  remanded  to  Flan* 
ders0  the  Danger  apprehended  being  pretty 
well  over.  I  w^s  at  White  Hall  when  I 
receiv'd  this  Notice ,-  where  meeting  my 
Lord  CiUts  (who  had  ever  fince  the  ftorming 
of  the  Terra  Nova  at .  Namur  allow'd  me 
a  Share  in  his  Favour)  he  exprefs'd  him^ 
felf  in  the  moft  obliging  Manner  ;  and  at 
parting  defir'd  he  might  not  fail  of  feeing 
me  next  Morning  at  his  Houfe  ;  for  he  had 

fome- 


[  6a  1 

fomewhat  of  an  extraordinary  Nature  to 
communicate  to  me. 

At  the  time  appointed,  I  waited  on  his 
Lordfhip,  where  I  met  Mr.  Steel  (now  Sir 
Richard^  and  at  that  time  his  Secretary) 
who  immediately  introduc'd  me.     I  found 
in  company  with  him  three  Gentlemen ;  and 
after  common  Salutations,  his  Lordfhip  de- 
liver'd  into  my  Hands,  an  Order  from  the 
King  in  Council  to  go  along  with  Captain 
Porter,   Mr.  de  la  Rue,   and  Mr.  George 
Harris  (who  prov'd  to  be  thofe  three  with 
him)  to  fearch  all  the  Tranfports  at  Gravef- 
end,  in  order  to  prevent  any  of  the  Confpi- 
rators  getting  out  of  England  that  Way. 
After  anfwering,  that  I  was  ready  to  pay 
Obedience,    and   receivings   in  private,  the 
further  neceffary  Inftru&ions,  we  took  our 
Leave,  and  Oars  foon  after  for  Gravefendi 
5Twas  in  our  Pafiage  down,  that  I  under- 
ftood  that  they  had  all  been  of  the  Confpi- 
racy,  but  now  relu&ant,  were  become  Wit- 
neffes. 

When  we  came  to  Gravefknd^  I  pfoduc'd 
my  Authority  to  the  Commanding  Officer, 
who  very  readily  paid  Obedience,  and  gave 
AiTiftance :  But  after  our  moil  diligent 
Search,  finding  nothing  of  what  we  look'd 
for,  we  returned  that  very  Night  to  London 
N  xt  Day  a  Proclamation  was  to  come 
out  for  the  apprehending  three  of  four 
Troopers,   who  were  fent  over  by  King 

Jamesj 


James,  with  a  thoufand  Pounds  Reward 
for  each :  Mr.  George  Harris,  who  was 
the  fourth,  being  the  only  Evidence  againft 
the  other  three.  No  fooner  were  we  re- 
turnd  from  Gravefend,  but  Harris  had  In- 
telligence brought  him,  that  CaJJells,  one  of 
the  three,  was  at  Mr.  Aliens  in  the  Savoy  > 
under  the  Name  of  Green.  Upon  which 
we  went  dire&ly  to  the  Place ;  and  enqui- 
ring for  Mr.  Green,  we  were  told  he  lodg'd 
there,  and  was  in  his  Room. 

I  was  oblig'd  by  my  Order  to  go  along 
with  them,  and  aflift  em ,-  and  very  well 
was  it  that  I  was  fo ;  For  in  confideration  of 
the  Reward  in  the  Proclamation,  which,  as 
I  have  faid,  was  to  come  out  the  next  Day^ 
Harris  and  the  reft  were  for  deferring  his 
Seizure,  till  the  coming  out  of  that  Procla- 
mation ;  but  making  anfwer,  that  in  cafe 
of  his  Efcape  that  Night,  I  muft  be  refpon- 
fible  to  my  Superiors  ,•  who,  under  the  moft 
favourable  Afpeft,  would  conftrue  it  a  Neg- 
left  of  Duty,  they  were  forc'd  to  comply  5 
and  fo  he  was  taken  up,  and  his  Name  that 
Night  (truck  out  of  the  Proclamation.  It 
is  very  true,  by  this  faithful  Difcharge  of 
my  Truft,  I  did  fave  the  Government  one 
Thoufand  Pounds  ,*  but  it  is  equally  fo,  that 
I  never  had  of  my  Governors  one  Farthing 
Confideration  for  what  others  term'd  an 
over-officious  Piece  of  Service  $  though  in 

Juftice 


[  64  ] 

Juftice  it  muft  be own'd  a  Piece  of  exad and 
difinterefted  Duty. 

Some  few  Days  after,  attending  by  Di- 
rection at  the  Secretary's  Office,  with  Mr* 
Harris,  there  came  in  a  ^Dutchman,  flut- 
tering and  making  a  great  Noife,  that  he 
was  fure  he  could  difcover  one  of  the  Con- 
fpirators  *  but  the  Mein  and  the  Behaviour 
of  the  Man,  would  not  give  any  Body  Leave 
to  give  him  any  Credit  or  Regard.  How- 
ever, the  Man  perfifting  in  his  AfTertions, 
I  Ipoke  to  Mr.  Harris  to  take  him  afide, 
and  ask  him  what  Sort  of  a  Perfon  he  was  : 
Harris  did  fo ;  and  the  Dutchman  defcri- 
bing  him,  fays  Harris ,  returning  to  me,  I'll 
be  hang'd  if  it  be  not  Blackburn.  Upon 
which  we  had  him  queftion'd  fomewhat 
more  narrowly  ;  when  having  no  room  to 
doubt,  and  underftanding  where  he  was, 
Colonel  Rivet  of  the  Guards  wasfent  for, 
and  order'd  to  go  along  with  us  to  feize  him. 
We  went  accordingly  3-  and  it  proving  to 
be  Blackburn,  the  'Dutchman  had  five 
Hundred  Pounds,  and  the  Colonel  and  o- 
thers  the  Remainder.  Camels  and  Black- 
hum,  if  (till  alive,  are  in  Newgate,  confin'd 
by  A&  of  Parliament,  one  only  Witnefs, 
which  was  Harris,  being  producible  againft 
them. 

When  Blackburn  was  feiz'd,  I  found  in 
the  Chamber  with  him5  one  T>amfon,  a 
'  -  Watch- 


[*5] 

Watch-maker,  living  in  Holboum.  I  car- 
ry'd  him  along  with  me  to  the  Secretary  of 
State ;  but  nothing  on  his  Examination  ap- 
pearing againft  him,  he  was  immediately 
difcharg'd.  He  offerci  afterwards  to  prefent 
me  w7ith  a  fine  Watch  of  his  own  making, 
which  I  refus'd ;  and  he  long  after  own'd 
the  Obligation, 

So  foon  as  the  Depth  of  this  Plot  was 
fathom'd,  and  the  intended  Evil  provided 
againft,  as  well  as  prevented,  YLmgWilliam 
went  over  into  Flanders,  and  our  Regi- 
ment thereupon  receiv'd  Orders  for  their 
immediate  Return,  Nothing  of  any  Mo- 
ment occurr'd  till  our  Arrival  at  our  old 
Quarters,  the  Camerlins,  where  we  lay  dif- 
pers'd  amongft  the  Country  Boors  or  Far- 
mers, as  heretofore.  However,  for  our 
better  Security  in  thofe  Quarters,  and  to 
preferve  us  from  the  Excurfions  of  the 
neighbouring  Garrifon  of  Fumes,  we  were 
oblig'd  to  keep  an  Out-guard  at  a  little 
Place  caird  Shoerbech  This  Guard  was 
every  forty-eight  Hours  chang'd,  and  re- 
mounted with  a  Captain,  a  Lieutenant,  an 
Enfign,  and  threefcore  Men. 

When  it  came  to  my  Turn  to  relieve 
that  Guard,  and  for  that  Purpofe  I  was  ar- 
riv'd  at  my  Poft,  it  appear 'd  to  me  with 
the  Face  of  a  Piace  of  Debauch,  rather 
than  Bufinefs  ;  there  being  too  vifible 
Tokens,  that  the  hard  Duty  of  both  Officers 

F  and 


[66  ] 

and  Soldiers  had  been  that  of  hard  Drin- 
king, the  fouleft  Error  that  a  Soldier  can 
commit,  efpecially  when  on  his  Guard. 

To  confirm  my  Apprehenfions,  a  little 
after  I  had  taken  Poffeflion  of  my  Guard, 
the  Man  of  the  Houfe  related  to  me  fuch 
PafTages,  and  fo  many  of  em,  that  fatisfy'd 
me,  that  if  ten  fober  Men  had  made  the  At- 
tack, they  might  have  fairly  knock'd  all 
my  Predeceffors  of  the  laft  Guard  on  the 
Head,  without  much  Difficulty.     However, 
his  Adcount  adminifter'd  Matter  of  Caution 
to  me,  and  put  me  upon  taking  a  narrower 
View  of  our   Situation.      In   confequence 
whereof,  at  Night  I  placd   a  Centinel  a 
Quarter  of  a  Mile  in  the  Rear,  and  fuch  o- 
ther  Centinels  as  I  thought  necejflfary  artd 
convenient  in  other  Places  ,•    with  Orders, 
that  upon  Sight  of  an  Enemy  the  Centinel 
near  fhould  lire ;  and  that  upon  hearing  that, 
all  the   other   Centinels,    as   well  as   he, 
fhould  haften   in   to  ftrengthen   our  Main 
Guard. 

What  my  Jealoufy,  on  my  Landlord's 
Relation ,  had  fuggefted ,  happen'd  ac- 
cordingly :  For  about  one  in  the  Morning 
I  was  alarm'd  with  the  Cry  of  one  of  my 
Centinels,  Turn  out  for  God's  fake ;  which 
he  repeated,  with  Vehemence,  three  or 
four  times  oven  I  took  the  Alarm,  got  up 
fuddenly  ,•  and  with  no  little  Difficulty  got 
my  Men  into  their  Ranks,  when  the  Perfon 

who 


who  made  the  Outcry  came  running  In,  al- 
mod:  fpent,  and  out  of  Breath.  It  was  the 
Centiricl,  that  I  had  luckily  plac'd  about  a 
Quarter  of  a  Mile  off,  who  gave  the  Alarm5 
and  his  Musket  flafhing  in  the  Pan,  without 
going  off,  he  endeavour'd  to  fupply  with 
his  Voice  the  Defeat  of  his  Piece,  I  had  juft 
got  my  Men  into  their  Ranks,  in  order  to  re- 
ceive the  Enemy,  when  by  the  Moon-light,  I 
difcover'd  a  Party  advancing  upon  us.  My 
out  Centinel  challeng'd  'em,  and  as  I  had 
precaution'd,  they  anfwcr'd  ,  Hifpanivli  ; 
though  I  knew  'em  to  be  French. 

However,  on  my  Survey  of  our  Situa* 
tion  by  Day-light,  having  mark'd  in  my 
Mind  a  proper  Place  for  drawing  up  my 
Men  in  Cafe  of  an  Attack,  which  was  too 
narrow  to  admit  of  more  than  two  on  a 
Bread:  ;  and  which  would  fecure  between 
us  and  the  Enemy  a  Ditch  of  Water  :  I  re- 
folv'd  to  put  in  practice  what  had  enter- 
tair/d  me  fo  well  in  the  Theory.  To  that 
Purpofe  I  Order'd  my  fifft  Rank  to  keep 
their  Poft,  ftand  ftill  and  face  the  Enemy, 
while  the  other  two  Ranks  (looping  fhould 
follow  me  to  gain  the  intended  Station  j 
which  done,  the  firft  Rank  had  Orders  to 
file  off  and  fall  behind.  All- was  performed 
in  excellent  Order  ;  and  I  confefs  it  was 
with  no  little  Pleafure,  that  I  beheld  the 
Enemy,  for  the  beft  Part  of  an  Hour,  in  Con- 
fultation  whether  they  fhould  attack  us  cr 

F  2  noe 


[68] 

no.  The  Refult,  neverthelefs ,  of  that 
Confultation  ended  in  this  ;  that,  feeing  us 
fo  well  upon  our  Guard,  it  was  mod  ad- 
vifeable  to  draw  off.  They  foon  put  their 
Refolution  into  pra&ice,  which  I  was  very 
glad  to  fee  $  on  Examination  a  little  before 
having  found  that  my  Predeceffor,  as  in  o- 
ther  Things,  had  fail'd  of  Conduct  in  leaving 
me  a  Garrifon  without  Ammunition. 

Next  Morning  I  was  very  pleafingly 
furpriz'd  with  a  handfome  Prefent  of  Wine, 
and  fome  other  neceflary  Refreshments.  At 
firft  I  made  a  little  Scruple  and  Hefitation 
whether  or  no  to  receive  'em ;  till  the 
Bearer  afTur'd  me,  that  they  were  fent  me 
from  the  Officers  of  the  next  Garrifon,  who 
had  made  me  a  Vifit  the  Night  before,  as 
a  candid  Acknowledgment  of  my  Conduft 
and  good  Behaviour.  I  returned  their  Com- 
pliment^  that  I  hop'd  I  fhould  never  receive 
Men  of  Honour  otherwife  than  like  a  Man 
of  Honour ;  which  mightily  pleas'd  them. 
Every  of  which  Particulars  the  Ghent  Ga- 
zettier  the  Week  after  publifh'd. 

We  had  little  to  do  except  Marching  and 
Counter-marching  all  the  Campaign  after  $ 
till  it  was  refolv'd  in  a  Council  of  War,  for 
the  better  prefer ving  of  Bmffels  from  fuch 
Infults,  as  it  had  before  fuftain'd  from  the 
French,  during  the  Siege  of  Namur,  to 
fortify  Anderkch ;  upon  which  our  Regi- 
ment, as  well  as  others,  were  commanded 

from 


[69] 

from  our  more  pacifick  Ports  to  attend  that 
Work.   Our  whole  Army  was  under  Move- 
ment to  cover  that  Resolution ;    and   the 
Train  fell  to  my  Care  and  Command  in  the 
March.     There  accompany'd  the  Train  a 
Fellow,  feemingly  ordinary,  yet  very  offi- 
cious and  courteous,  being  ready  to  do  any 
thing  for  any  Perfon,  from  the  Officer  to 
the  common  Soldier.      He  travell'd  along 
and  mov'd  with  the  Train,  fometimes  on 
Foot,  and  fometimes  getting  a  Ride  in  fome 
one  or  other  of  the  Waggons ;  but  ever  full 
of  his  Chit-chat  and  Stories  of  Humour. 
By  thefe  infinuating  Ways  he  had  fcrew'd 
himfelf  into  the  general  good  Opinion  ;  but 
the  Waggoners  efpecially  grew  particularly 
fond  of  him.     At  the  End  of  our  March 
all  our  Powder- Waggons  were  plac  d  breaft 
a-breaft,  and  fo  clofe,  that  one  mifcarrying 
would  leave  little  doubt  of  the  Fate  ot  all 
the  reft.     This  in  the  Camp  we  commonly 
call  the  Park;  and  here   it  was  that  our 
new  Gueft,  like  another  Tbaeton,  though 
under  Pretence  of  Wearinefs,    not  Ambi- 
tion, got  Leave  of  the  very  laft  Carter  to 
the  Train  to  take  a  Nap  in  his  Waggon. 
One  who  had  entertain'd  a  Jealoufy  of  him, 
and  had  watch'd  him,  gave  Information  a- 
gainfthim^  upon  which  he  was  feiz'd  and  Anincen- 
brought  to  me  as  Captain  of  the  Guard.^^ 
1  caus'd  him  to  be  fearch'd  $  and  upon  fearch3?„  the  Fact 
finding  Match,    Touchwood 3    and  other0/" the 
F  3  dangerous Army% 


r  70] 

dangerous  Materials  upon  him  $  I  fent  him 
and  them  away  to  the  Provoe.     Upon  the 
Whole,  a  Council   of  War  was  call'd,  at 
which,  upon  a  ftricl:  Examination,   he  con- 
fefs'd  himfelf  a  hir'd  Incendiary  ;  and  as  fuch 
received  his  Sentence  to  be  burnt  in  the  Face 
of  the  Army.     The  Execution  was  a  Day 
or  two  after  :  When  on  the  very  Spot,  he 
further  acknowledge ,   that   on  Sight    or 
Noife  of  the  Blow,  it  had  been  concerted, 
that  the  French  Army  fhould  fall  upon  the 
Confederates  under  thofe  lamentable  Cir- 
cumftances, 
Teacesf       The  Peace  of  Rifwick  foon  after  taking 
Rifwick.  pjacej  pUt  an  End  to  all  Incendiarifms  of 
either  Sort.     So  that  nothing  of  a  Military 
Kind,    which  was  now  become  my   Pro- 
vince, happen'd  of  fome  Years  after.     Our 
Regiment  was   fir-ft  order'd  into  England ; 
and   prefently  after  into  Ireland:    But  as 
thefe  Memoirs  are  not  defign'd  for  the  Low 
Amuzement  of  a  Tea-Table,  but  rather  of 
the  Cabinet,  a  Series  of  inglorious  Inactivity 
can  furnifh  but  very  little  towards  'em. 

Yet  as  little  as  I  admir'd  a  Life  of  Inac- 
tivity, there  are  fome  Sorts  of  Activity, 
to  which  a  wife  Man  might  almofl:  give  Su- 
pinenefs  the  Preference  :  Such  is  that  of  bare- 
ly encountring  Elements,  and  wageing  War 
with  Nature ;  and  fuch,  in  my  Opinion, 
would  have  been  the  fpending  my  Commif- 
iion^  and  very  probably  my  Lifq  with  it^ 

in 


in  the  Weft  Indies.  For  though  the  Climate 
(as  fome  would  urge)  may  afford  a  Chance 
for  a  very  fpeedy  Advance  in  Honour,  yet, 
upon  revolving  in  my  Mind,  that  thofe  Ro- 
tations of  the  Wheel  of  Fortune  are  often 
fo  very  quick,  as  well  as  uncertain,  that  I 
my  felf  might  as  well  be  the  Firft  as  the 
Laft  -y  the  Whole  of  the  Debate  ended  in 
fomewhat  like  that  Couplet  of  the  excellent 
Hudibras : 

Then  he^  that  ran  away  andfled^ 
Mtift  lie  in  Honour  s  Truckle-bed. 

However,  my  better  Planets  foon  dif- 
annull'd  thofe  melancholy  Ideas,  which  a 
Rumour  of  our  being  fent  into  the  Weft 
Indies  had  crowded  my  Head  and  Heart 
with :  For  being  call'd  over  into  England^ 
upon  the  very  Affairs  of  the  Regiment,  I 
arriv'd  there  juft  after  the  Orders  for  their 
Tranfportation  went  over ;  by  which  Means 
the  Choice  of  going  was  put  out  of  my 
Power,  and  the  Danger  of  Refufing,  which 
was  the  Cafe  of  many,  was  very  luckily 
avoided. 

It  being  judg'd,  therefore,  impoflible 
for  me  to  return  foon  enough  to  gain  my 
Paffage,  one  in  Power  propos'd  to  me, 
that  I  fhould  refign  to  an  Officer  then  going 
over ;  and  with  fome  other  contingent  Ad- 
vantages, to  my  great  Satisfaction,  1  was 
F  4  put 


In) 

put  upon  the  Half-pay  Lift.  This  was  more 
agreeable,  for  1  knew,  or  at  leaft  imagin'd 
my  felf  wife  enough  to  foretel,  from  the 
over  hot  Debate  of  the  Houfe  of  Commons 
upon  the  Partition  Treaty,  that  it  could 
not  be  long  before  the  prefent  Peace  would, 
at  leaft,  require  patching. 

Under  this  Sort  of  uncertain  Settlement 
I  remain  d  with  the  Patience  of  a  Jew* 
though  not  with  Judaical  Abfurdity ,  a 
faithful  Adherer  to  my  Expe&ation.  Nor 
did  the  Confequence  fail  of  anfwering,  a 
war -pro-  War  was  apparent,  and  foon  after  pro- 
xiairnd.  ciaim\j#  Thus  waiting  for  an  Opportunity, 
which  I  flatterM  my  felf  would  foon  prefent, 
the  little  Diverfions  of  T^tihlin^  and  the  mo- 
derate Converfation  of  that  People,  were 
not  of  Temptation  enough  to  make  my  Stay 
in  England  look  like  a  Burden. 

But  though  the  War  was  proclaim'd, 
and  Preparations  accordingly  made  for  it, 
the  Expectations  from  all  receiv'd  a  fudden 
x.wiiiiam  Damp,  by  the  as  fudden  Death  of  King 
dies.  ]PHUam.  That  Prince,  who  had  ftared 
Death  in  the  Face  in  many  Sieges  and 
Battles,  met  with  his  Fate  in  the  Midft  of 
his  Diverfions,  who  feiz'd  his  Prize  in  an 
Hour,  to  human  Thought,  the  leaft  adapted 
to  it.  He  was  a  Hunting  (his  cuftomary 
Diverfion)  when,  by  an  unhappy  Trip  of 
his  Horfe,  he  fell  to  the  Ground  ;  and  in 
the  Fall  difplac'd  his  Collar-bone.      The 

News 


C  73  D 

News  of  it  immediately  alarm'd  the  Court, 
and  all  around ;   and  the  fad  Effects  of  it 
foon  after  gave  all  Europe  the  like  Alarm. 
France  only,  who  had  not  difdain'd  to  feek 
it  fooner  by  ungenerous  Means,    receiv'd 
new  Hope,  from  what  gave  others  Motives 
for  Defpair.     He  flatter'd  himfelf,  that  that 
long  liv'd  Obftacle  to  his  Ambition  thus  re- 
mov'd,  his  SuccefTor  would  never  fali  into 
thofe  Meafures,  which  he  had  wifely  con- 
certed for  the  Liberties  of  Europe  ;  but  he, 
as  wTell  as  others  of  his  Adherents,  was  glo- 
rioufly   deceived;    that    God-like   Queen, 
with  a  Heart  entirely  EngUJh^  profecuted 
her  royal  Predeceffors  Counfels ,-   and  to 
remove  all  the  very  Faces  of  Jealoufy,  im- 
mediately on  her  Acceflion    difpatch'd  to 
every  Court  of  the  great  Confederacy,  Per- 
fons  adequate  to  the  Importance  of  the  Mef- 
fage,  to  give  AfTurances  thereof. 

This  gave  new  Spirit  to  a  Caufe,  that  at 
firft  feem'd  to  languifh  in  its  Founder,  as  it 
ftruck  its  great  Oppofers  with  a  no  lefs  mor- 
tifying Terror :  And  well  did  the  great  Suc- 
ceffes  of  her  Arms  anfwer  the  Prayers  and 
Efforts  of  that  royal  Soul  of  the  Confedera- 
cies ;  together  with  the  Wifhes  of  all,  that, 
like  her,  had  the  Good,  as  well  as  the  Ho- 
nour of  their  Country  at  Heart,  in  which  the 
Liberties  of  Europe  were  included.  The 
firft  Campaign  gave  a  noble  Earneft  of  the 
Future.     Bon,   Keyferwaert>   Venh^    and 

Rjire- 


[74] 

Rttremond,  were  found  Forerunners  only  of 
Donawert,  Hochftet,  and  Blenheim.  Such 
a  March  of  Englijlo  Forces  to  the  Support 
of  the  tottering  Empire,  as  it  glorioufly 
manifefted  the  ancient  Genius  of  a  warlike 
People  ,-  fo  was  it  happily  celebrated  with  a 
Succefs  anfwerable  to  the  Glory  of  the  Un- 
dertakings which  concluded  in  Statues  and 
princely  Donatives  to  an  Englijh  Subject, 
from  the  then  only  Emperor  in  Europe. 
A  fmall  Tribute,  it's  true,  for  ranfom'd 
Nations  and  captiv'd  Armies,  which  juftly 
enough  inverted  the  Exclamations  of  &  Ro- 
man Emperor  to  the  French  Monarch,  who 
deprecated  his  Legions  loft  pretty  near  the 
fame  Spot  ,*  but  to  a  much  fuperior  Num- 
ber, and  on  a  much  lefs  glorious  Occafion. 

But  my  good  Fortune  not  allowing  me 
to  participate  in  thofe  glorious  Appendages 
of  the  Englijh  Arms  in  Flanders,  nor  on 
the  Rhine,  I  was  refolv'd  to  make  a  Pufli 
for  it  the  firft  Opportunity,  and  wafte  my 
Minutes  no  longer  on  Court  Attendances. 
And  my  Lord  Cutts  returning  with  his  full 
Share  of  Laurels,  for  his  never  to  be  forgot- 
ten  Services  at  Venlo ,  Rtiremond  *>  and 
Hochftet,  found  his  active  Genius  now  to  be 
repos'd,  under  the  lefs  agreeable  Burden  of 
unhazardous  Honour,  where  Quiet  muft  pro- 
vide a  Tomb  for  one  already  paft  any  Dan- 
ger of  Oblivion  ;  deep  Wcunds  and  glo- 
rious Anions  having  anticipated  all  that 

could 


C  75  J 

could  be  faid  in  Epitaphs  or  litteral  Infcrip- 
tions..  Soon  after  his  Arrival  from  GVr- 
many  ,  he  was  appointed  General  of  all 
her"  Ma  jetty's  Forces  in  Ireland-,  upon 
which  going  to  congratulate  him,  he  was 
pleas'd  to  enquire  of  me  feveral  Things  re- 
lating to  that  Country ;  and  particularly 
in  what  Part  of  'Dublin  I  would  recom- 
mend his  Refidence  ;  offering  at  the  fame 
time,  if  1  would  go  over  writh  him,  all  the 
Services  that  fliould  fall  in  his  Way. 

But  Inactivity  was  a  Thing  I  had  too 
long  lamented  ;  therefore,  after  I  had,  as 
decently  as  1  could,  declin'd  the  latter  Part, 
I  told  his  Lordfhip,  that  as  to  a  Place  of 
Refidence,  I  was  Matter  of  a  Houfe  in 
■jDubMn,  large  enough,  and  fuitable  to  his 
great  Quality,  which  fliould  be  at  his  Ser- 
vice, on  any  Terms  he  thought  fit.  Adding 
withal,  that  I  had  a  Mind  to  fee  Spain, 
where  my  Lord  Teterborow  was  now 
going  ;  and  that  if  his  Lordfhip  would  fa- 
vour me  with  a  Recommendation,  it  would 
fuit  my  prefent  Inclinations  much  better 
than  any  further  tedious  Recefs.  His  Lord- 
fhip was  fo  good  to  clofe  with  both  my 
Overtures ;  and  fpoke  fo  effectually  in  my 
Favour,  that  the  Earl  of  Tcierborozz\ 
then  General  oi  all  the  Forces  order'd  on 
that  Expedition,  bad  me  fpeedily  prepare 
my  ftlf ;  and  fo  when  all  Things  were 
ready  1  embarqu'd  with  that  noble  Lord  for 
i  Spaing 


C  76] 

Spain,  to  purfue  his  well  concerted  Under- 
taking ;  which,  in  the  Event,  will  demon- 
ftrate  to  the  World,  that  little  Armies,  un- 
der the  Conduft  of  aufpicious  Generals,  may 
fometimes  produce  prodigious  Effefts. 

The  Jews,  in  whatever  Part  of  the 
World,  are  a  People  induftrious  in  the  in- 
creafing  of  Mammon ;  and  being  accuftom'd 
to  the  univerfal  Methods  of  Gain,  are  al- 
ways efteem'd  belt  qualify 'd  for  any  Under- 
taking, where  that  bears  a  Probability  of  be- 
ing a  Perquifite.  Providing  Bread,  and  other 
Requifites  for  an  Army,  was  ever  allow'd 
to  carry  along  with  it  a  Profit  anfwerable ; 
and  Spain  was  not  the  firft  Country  where 
that  People  had  engag'd  in  fuch  an  Under- 
taking. Befides,  on  any  likely  Appearance 
of  great  Advantage,  it  is  in  the  Nature  as 
well  as  Practice  of  that  Race,  ftrenuoufly  to 
affift  one  another  ;  and  that  with  the  utmoft 
Confidence  and  prodigious  Alacrity.  One 
of  that  Number,  both  competent  and  willing 
enough  to  carry  on  an  Undertaking  of  that 
kind,  fortunately  came  at  that  Juncture  to 
folicit  the  Earl  of  Teterborow  to  be  em- 
ploy'd  as  Proveditor  to  the  Army  and 
Troops,  which  were,  or  fhould  be  fent  into 
Spain. 

It  willeafily  be  admitted,  that  the  Earl, 
under  his  prefent  Exigencies,  did  not  de- 
cline to  liften.  And  a  very  confiderable 
Sum  being  offer'd,   by  way  of  Advance,  the 

Method 


[  77  ] 

Method  common  in  like  Cafes  was  purfu'd, 
and  the  Sum  propos'd  accepted ;  by  which 
Means  the  Earl  of  Teterborow  found  him- 
felf  put  into  the  happy  Capacity  of  pro- 
ceeding upon  his  firft  concerted  Project 
The  Name  of  the  Jew,  who  fign'd  the 
Contrad,  was  Curtifos  ;  and  he  and  his 
Friends,  with  great  Pun&uality,  advanced 
the  expefted  Sum  of  One  Hundred  Thoufand 
Pounds  Sterling,  or  very  near  it,-  which 
was  immediately  order'd  into  the  Hands  of 
the  Pay-mafter  of  the  Forces.  For  though 
the  Earl  took  Money  of  the  Jews^  it  was 
not  for  his  own,  but  publick  Ufe.  Ac- 
cording to  Agreement,  Bills  were  drawn 
for  the  Value  from  Lisbon^  upon  the  Lord 
Godolphin  (then  Lord  Treafurer)  all  which 
were,  on  that  Occafion,  punctually  com- 
ply'd  with. 

The  Earl  of  Teterborow  having  thus 
fortunately  found  Means  to  fupply  himfelf 
with  Money,  and  by  that  with  fome 
Horfe,  after  he  had  obtained  Leave  of  the 
Lord  G  alow  ay  to  make  an  Exchange  of 
two  Regiments  of  Foot,  received  the  Arch- 
Duke,  and  all  thofe  who  would  follow  him, 
aboard  the  Fleet ;  and,  at  his  own  Expenfe, 
tranfported  him  and  his  whole  Retinue  to 
^Barcelona  :  For  all  which  prodigious 
Charge,  as  I  have  been  very  lately  inform'd, 
from  very  good  Hands,  that  noble  Eari 
never  to  this  Day  receiv'd  any  Confidera- 

tioa 


L  78  1 

tion  from  the  Government,  or  any  Perfon 
whatfoever. 

We  fail'd  from  Lisbon,  in  order  to  joiii 
the  Squadron  under  Sir  Cloud  [ley  Shovel: 
Meeting  with  which  at  the  appointed  Sta- 
tion off  Tangier,    the  Men  of  War  and 
Tranfports  thus  united,    made  the  beft  of 
their  Way  for  Gibraltar.    There  we  ftay'd 
no  longer  than  to  take  aboard  two  Regi- 
ments out  of  that  Garrifon,  in  lieu  of  two 
out  of  our  Fleet.     Here  we  found  the  Prince 
of  Heffe,  who  immediately  took  a  Refolu- 
tion  to  follow  the  Areh-Duke  in  this  Expe- 
dition.    He  was  a  Perfon  of  great  Gallan- 
try ;  and  having  been  Vice-Roy  of  Cata- 
lonia, was  received  on  board  the  Fleet  with 
the  utmoft  Satisfa&ion,  as  being  a  Perfon 
capable  of  doing  great  Service  in  a  Country 
where  he  was  well  known,  and  as  well  be- 
lov'd. 

Speaking  Latin  then  pretty  fluently, 
it  gave  me  frequent  Opportunities  of  conver- 
ging with  the  two  Father  Confeffors  of  the 
Duke  of  Auflria  \  and  upon  that  Account  I 
found  my  felf  honoured  with  fome  Share  in 
the  Favour  of  the  Arch- Duke  himfelf  I 
mention  this,  not  to  gratify  any  vain  Hu- 
mour, but  as  a  corroborating  Circumftancc, 
that  my  Opportunities  of  Information,  in 
Matters  of  Confequence,  could  not  thereby 
be  fuppos'd  to  be  lefTen'd  5  but  that  I  might 
more  reasonably  be  imagined  to  arrive  at 

Intel- 


[  79  ] 

Intelligence,  that  not  very  often,  or  at  leaft 
not  fo  foon,  came  to  the  Knowledge  of  o- 
thers. 

From  Gibraltar  we  fail'd  to  the  Bay  of 
Altea^  not  far  diftant  from  the  City  of  Va- 
lencia^ in  the  Road  of  which  we  continued 
for  fome  Days.  While  we  were  there,  as 
I  was  very  credibly  inforrcTd,  the  Earl  of 
'Peterborow  met  with  fome  frefh  Difap- 
pointment ;  but  what  it  was,  neither  I  nor 
any  Body  elfe,  as  far  as  I  could  perceive, 
could  ever  dive  into :  Neither  did  it  appear 
by  any  outward  Tokens,  in  that  noble  Ge- 
neral, that  it  lay  fo  much  at  his  Heart,  as 
thofe  about  him  feeip'd  to  affure  me  it  did. 

However,  while  we  lay  in  Altea  Bay, 
two  Bomb-VefTels,  and  a  fmall  Squadron, 
were  order'd  againft  T)enia,  which  had  a 
fmall  Caftle ;    but  rather  fine  than  ftrong. 
And  accordingly,  upon  our  Offer  to  bring 
to  bear  with  our  Cannon,  and  preparing  to 
fix  our  Bomb-VefTels,  in  order  to  bombard 
the  Place,  it  furrender'd  ;  and  acknowledged  Deniaysw- 
the   Arch-Duke  ^as  lawful  King  of  Spain  ™JZl 
and  fo  proclaim'd  him.     From  this  time,jw^ 
therefore,  fpeaking  of  that  Prince,  it  fliall  ^-£»*« 
be  under  that  Title.     General  Ramos  wasK'^  pam 
left  Commander  here ;  a  Perfon  wTho  after- 
wards afted  a  very  extraordinary  Part  in 
the  War  carry 'd  on  in  the  Kingdom  of  Va- 
lencia. 


But 


[8o] 

But  notwithftanding  no  pofitivc  Refolu- 
tions  had  been  taken  for  the  Operations  of 
the  Campaign,  before  the  Arch  Duke's 
Departure  from  Lisbon,  the  Earl  of  Peter- 
borow,  ever  folicitous  of  the  Honour  of  his 
Country,  had  premeditated  another  Enter- 
prize,  which,  had  it  been  embracd,  would, 
in  all  Probability,  have  brought  that  War 
to  a  much  more  fpeedy  Conclufion  ,•  and  at 
the  fame  time  have  obviated  all  thofe  Diffi- 
culties, which  were  but  too  apparent  in 
the  Siege  of 'Barcelona.  He  had  juftly  and 
judicioufly  weighed,  that  there  were  no 
Forces  in  the  Middle  Parts  of  Spain,  all 
their  Trrops  being  in  the  extream  Parts  of 
the  Kingdom,  either  on  the  Frontiers  of 
Portugal >  or  in  the  City  of  "Barcelona ; 
that  with  King  Philip \  and  the  royal  Fa- 
mily at  Madrid,  there  were  only  fome  few 
Horfe,  and  thofe  in  a  bad  Condition,  and 
which  only  ferv'd  for  Guards  ;  if  therefore, 
as  he  rightly  proje&ed  within  himfelf,  by 
the  taking  of  Valencia,  or  any  Sea-Port 
Town,  that  might  have  fecur'd  his  Landing, 
he  had  march'd  directly  for  Madrid ;  what 
could  have  oppos'd  him  ?  But  I  iliall  have 
occafion  to  dilate  more  upon  this  Head  a 
few  Pages  hence  ;  and  therefore  fhall  here 
only  fay,  that  though  that  Projeift  of  his 
might  have  brought  about  a  fpeedy  and 
wonderful  Revolution,  what  he  was  by  his 
Orders  afterwards  oblig'd  to,  againft  his  In- 
i  clinations 


[8,] 

dinations,  to  purfue,  contributed  much 
more  to  his  great  Reputation,  as  it  put  him 
under  a  frequent  Neceiftty  of  overcoming 
Difficulties,  which,  to  any  other  General, 
would  have  appear  d  unfurmountable. 

VJLENCIA  is  a  City  towards  the  Valencia 
Centre  of  Spain,  to  the  Seaward,  feated  in*!fc*ih%d> 
a  rich  and  moft  populous  Country,  juft 
fifty  Leagues  from  Madrid.  It  abounds 
in  Horfes  and  Mules ;  by  reafon  of  the 
great  Fertility  of  its  Lands,  which  they 
can,  to  great  Advantage,  water  when,  and 
as  they  pleafe.  This  City  and  Kingdom 
was  as  much  incliiui  to  the  Intereft  of  King 
Charles  as  CataLnia  it  felf ;  for  even  on 
our  firft  Appearance,  great  Numbers  of 
People  came  down  to  the  Bay  of  Jltea, 
with  not  only  a  bare  Offer  of  their  Services., 
but  loaded  with  all  Manner  of  Provisions,, 
and  loud  Acclamations  of  Viva  Carlos 
tercero,  Viva.  There  were  no  regular 
Troops  in  any  of  the  Places  round  about  it, 
or  in  the  City  it  felf.  The  neareft  were 
thofe  few  Horfe  in  Madrid,  one  hundred 
and  fifty  Miles  diftant ;  nor  any  Foot  nearer 
than  Barcelona,  or  the  Frontiers  of  Tor- 
tugah 

On  the  contrary,    Barcelona  is  one  o?Defcr¥^ 
the  largeft  and  moft  populous  Cities  in  all  if1 
Spain,    fortify'd  with   Baftions,-    one  Side 
thereof  is  fecur'd  by  the  Sea  $  and  the  other 
by  a  ftrong  Fortification,  call'd  Monjouich 

G  '  The 


iona. 


[8i  ] 

The  Place  is  of  fo  large  a  Circumference? 
that  thirty  thoufand  Men  would  fcarce 
fuffice  to  form  the  Lines  of  Circumvallation. 
It  once  refilled  for  many  Months  an  Army 
of  that  Force  ,♦  and  is  almoft  at  the  greateft 
Diftance  from  England  of  any  Place  be- 
longing to  that  Monarchy. 

This  fhort  Defcription  of  thefe  two 
Places  will  appear  highly  neceflary,  if  it  be 
confider'd,  that  no  Perfon  without  it  would 
be  able  to  judge  of  the  Defign  which  the 
Earl  of  Teterborow  intended  to  purfue, 
when  he  firft  took  the  Arch-Duke  aboard 
the  Fleet.  Neverthelefs  the  Earl  now 
found  himfelf  under  a  Neceffity  of  quitting 
that  noble  Defign,  upon  his  Receipt  of 
Orders  from  England^  while  he  lay  in  the 
Bay  of  Altea^  to  proceed  dire&ly  to  Cata- 
tonia ;  to  which  the  Arch- Duke,  as  well  as 
many  Sea  and  Land  Officers,  were  moft  in- 
clined ;  and  the  Prince  of  Hejfe  more  than 
all  the  reft. 

On  receiving  thofe  Orders,  the  Earl  of 
Teterborcz®  feem'd  to  be  of  Opinion,  that 
from  an  Attempt,  which  he  thought  under 
a  Probability  of  Succefs,  he  was  condemn'd 
to  undertake  what  was  next  to  an  Impoffibi- 
lity  of  effecting ;  fince  nothing  appeared  to 
him  fo  injudicious  as  an  Attempt  upon  Barce- 
lona. A  Place  at  fuch  a  Diftance  from  re- 
ceiving any  Reinforcement  or  Relief ;  the 
only  Place  in  which  the  Spaniards  had  a 

Gar- 


[8*] 

Garrifon  of  regular  Forces ;  and  thofe  in 
Number  rather  exceeding  the  Army  he  was 
to  undertake  the  Siege  with,  was  enough 
to  cooi  the  Ardour  of  a  Perfon  of  lefs  Pene- 
tration and  Zeal  than  what  the  Earl  had 
on  all  Occafions  demonftrated.  Whereas 
if  the  General,  as  he  intended,  had  made 
an  immediate  March  to  Madrid,  after  he 
had  fecur'd  Valencia,  and  the  Towns  adja- 
cent, which  were  all  ready  to  iubmitand 
declare  for  King  Charles  ;  or  if  otherwife 
inclin'd  3  had  it  not  in  their  Power  to 
make  any  confiderable  Refinance  « to  which, 
if  it  be  added,  that  he  could  have  had  Mules 
and  Holies  immediately  provided  for  him, 
in  what  Number  he  pleas'd,  together  with 
Carriages  neceffary  for  Artillery,  Baggage, 
and  Ammunition;  in  few  Days  he  could 
have  forc?d  King  Philip  out  of  Madrid , 
where  he  had  fo  little  Force  to  oppofe  him. 
And  as  there  was  nothing  in  his  Way  to 
prevent  or  obftruft  his  marching  thither,  it 
is  hard  to  conceive  any  other  Part  King 
Philip  could  have  ailed  in  fuch  an  Extre- 
mity, than  to  retire  either  towards  Portu- 
gal or  Catalonia*  In  either  of  which  Cafes 
he  mult  have  left  all  the  middle  Part  oi  Spain 
open  to  the  Pleafure  of  the  Enemy  ;  who 
in  the  mean  time  would  have  had  it  in  their 
Power  to  prevent  any  Communication  of 
thofe  Bodies  at  fuch  oppoiite  Extreams  of 
the  Country,  as  were  the  Frontiers  of  Per* 
G  2  tugai 


[S+3 

tugal  and  Barcelona^  where  only,  as  I  faid 
before,  were  any  regular  Troops. 

And  on  the  other  Side,  as  the  Forces  of 
the  Earl  of  Peterborow  were  more  than 
fufficient  for  an  Attempt  where  there  was 
fo  little  Danger  of  Oppofitionj  fo  if  their 
Army  on  the  Frontiers  of  'Portugal  fliould 
have  march'd  back  upon  him  into  the  Coun- 
try; either  the  'Portitgueze  Army  could 
have  enterM  into  Spain  without  Oppofition  ; 
or,  at  worft,  fuppofing  the  General  had 
been  forcd  to  retire,  his  Retreat  would 
have  been  eafy  and  fafe  into  thofe  Parts  of 
Valencia  and  Andaluzia^  which  he  pre* 
vioufly  had  fecur'd.  Befides,  Gibraltar^ 
the  ftrongeft  Place  in  Spain^  if  not  in  the 
whole  World,  was  already  in  our  Poffef- 
iion,  and  a  great  Fleet  at  Hand  ready  to 
give  Afliftance  in  all  Places  near  the  Sea. 
From  all  which  it  is  pretty  apparent,  that 
in  a  little  time  the  War  on  our  Side  might 
have  been  fupported  without  entering  the 
Mediterranean ;  by  which  Means  all  Rein- 
forcements would  have  been  much  nearer  at 
Hand  D  and  the  Expences  of  tranfporting 
Troops  and  Ammunition  very  considerably 
diminifh'd. 

But  none  of  thefe  Arguments,  though 
every  one  of  them  is  founded  on  folid  Rea- 
fon,  were  of  Force  enough  againft  the  pre- 
vailing Opinion  for  an  Attempt  upon  Cat  a* 
Ionia.     Mr.  Crow^  Agent  for  the  Queen  in 

thofe 


[85] 

thofe  Parts,  had  fent  into  England  moft  po- 
fitive  Affurances,  that  nothing  would  be 
wanting,  if  once  our  Fleet  made  an  Invafioft 
among  ft  the  Catalans :  The  Prince  of  Hejje 
likewife  abounded  in  mighty  Offers  and  pro- 
digious Affurances ;  all  which  enforced  our 
Army  to  that  Part  of  Spain,  and  that  gal- 
lant Prince  to  thofe  Attempts  in  which  he 
loft  his  Life.  Very  much  againft  the  Incli- 
nation of  our  General,  who  forefaw  all  thofe 
Difficulties,  which  were  no  lefs  evident  after- 
wards to  every  one ;  and  the  Senfe  of  which 
occafion'd  thofe  Delays,  and  that  Oppofi- 
tion  to  any  Effort  upon  Barcelona,  which  ran 
thro'  fo  many  fucceffive  Councils  of  War. 

However,  purfuant  to  his  Inftru&ions 
from  England,  the  repeated  Defires  of  the 
Arch-Duke,  and  the  Importunities  of  the 
Prince  of  Hejfe,  our  General  gave  Orders  to 
fail  from  Altea  towards  the  Bay  of  Barce- 
lona, the  chief  City  of  Catalonia.     Never-  EaritfPe* 
thelefs,  when  we  arriv'd  there,  he  was  very  ^££T 
unwilling  to  land  any  of  the  Forces,  till  he  Barcelona 
faw  fome  Probability  of  that  Affiftance  and***  f^ 
Succour  fo  much  boafted  of,  and  fo  often  ^JJ/^ 
promis'd.    But  as  nothing  appeared  but  fome^  f^j, 
fmall  Numbers  of  Men,  very  indifferently 
arm'd,    and  without  either  Gentlemen  or 
Officers  at  the  Head  of  them  ;  the  Earl  of 
'Peterborow  was  of  Opinion,  this  could  not 
be  deem'd  fufficient  Encouragement  for  him 
to  engage  in  an  Enterprize,    which  carry 'd 

G  3  fo 


[86] 

fo  poor  a  Face  of  Probability  of  Succeft  a- 
long  with  it.  In  anfwer  to  this  it  was  urg  d, 
that  till  a  Defcent  was  made,  and  the  Affairs 
thoroughly  engag'd  in,  it  was  not  to  be  ex- 
pected ^that  any  great  Numbers  would  ap- 
pear, or  that  Perfons  of  Condition  would 
difcovcr  themfclves.  Upon  all  which  it 
was  refolv'd  the  Troops  ibould  be  landed. 

Accordingly,  our  Forces  were  difem- 
bark'd,  and  immediately  encamp'd ;  not- 
withstanding w7hich  the  Number  of  Suc- 
cours increas'd  very  flowly,  and  that  after 
the  firfl:  ftraggling  Manner.  Nor  were  thofe 
that  did  appear  any  way  to  be  depended 
on  ;  coming  when  they  thought  fit,  and  go- 
ing away  when  they  pleas'd,  and  not  to  be 
brought  under  any  regular  Difcipline.  It 
was  then  pretended,  that  until  they  faw  the 
Artillery  landed  as  w*ell  as  Forces,  they 
would  not  believe  any  Siege  actually  in- 
tended. This  brought  the  General  under  a 
fort  of  Neceifity  of  complying  in  that  alfo. 
Though  certainly  fo  to  do  mud  be  allowed 
a  little  unreafonable,  while  the  Majority  in 
ail  Councils  of  War  declar'd  the  Defign  to 
be  impracticable  •  and  the  Earl  of  Peter- 
borow  had  positive  Orders  to  proceed  ac- 
cording to  facfa  Majorities. 

Arlaft  the  Prince  o^HejTc  was  pleas'd  to 
demand  Pay  for  thole  Stragglers,  as  Officers 
and  Soldiers,  endeavouring  to  maintain, 
that    it  could  not   be  expected   that  Men 

fliouid 


C«7  1 

iliould  venture  their  Lives  for  nothing. 
Thus  we  came  to  Catalonia  upon  Affurances 
of  univerfal  Afliftance ,  but  found,  when  we 
came  there,  that  we  were  to  have  none  un- 
lefs  we  paid  for  it.  And  as  we  were  fent 
thither  without  Money  to  pay  for  any  thing, 
it  had  certainly  been  for  us  more  tolerable 
to  have  been  in  a  Country  where  we  might 
have  taken  by  Force  what  we  could  not  ob- 
tain any  other  Way. 

However,  to  do  the  Miqiielets  all  pof- 
iible  Juftice,  I  muft  fay,  that  notwithftanding 
the  Number  of  em,  which  hover'd  about 
the  Place,  never  much  exceeded  fifteen 
Hundred  Men  ;  if  fometimes  more,  oftner 
lefs  ■  and  though  they  never  came  under 
any  Command,  but  planted  themfelves 
where  and  as  they  pleas'd ;  yet  did  they 
confiderable  Service  in  taking  PoffefTion  of  all 
the  Country  Houfes  and  Convents,  that  lay 
between  the  Hills  and  the  Plain  of  "Barcelona  $ 
by  means  whereof  they  render' d  it  impoflible 
for  the  Enemy  to  make  any  Sorties  or  Sallies 
at  any  Diflance  from  the  Town, 

AxMd  now  began  alLthofe  Difficulties  to 
bear,  which  long  before  by  the  General  had 
been  apprehended.  The  Troops  had  con- 
tinu'd-  under  a  State  of  Inactivity  for  the 
Space  of  three  Weeks,  all  which  was  fpent 
in  perpetual  Contrivances  and  Difputes  a- 
mongft  our  felves,  not  with  the  Enemy.  In 
fix  feveral  Councils  of  War  the  Siege  of 
G  4  %arce* 


[81-3 

Barcelona  ^  under  the  Circumftances  we 
then  lay,  was  rejected  as  a  Madnefs  and 
Impofllbility.  And  though  the  General  and 
Brigadier  Stanhope  (afterward  Earl  Stan- 
hope) confented  to  fome  Effort,  yet  it  was 
rather  that  fome  Effort  fhould  be  made  to  fa- 
tisfy  the  Expectation  of  the  World,  than 
with  any  Hopes  of  Succefs.  However,  no 
Confent  at  all  could  be  obtain'd  from  any 
Council  of  War ;  and  the  "Dutch  General  in 
particular  declar'd,  that  he  would  not  obey 
even  the  Commands  of  the  Earl  of  *peter- 
lorow^  if  he  fhould  order  the  Sacrifice  of  the 
Troops  under  him  in  founjuftifiable  a  Manner, 
without  the  Confent  of  a  Council  of  War. 

And  yet  all  thofe  Officers,  who  refused 
their  Confent  to  the  Siege  of  "Barcelona, 
offered  to  march  into  the  Country,  and  at- 
tempt any  other  Place,   that  was  not  pro-f 
vided  with  fo  ftrong  and  numerous  a  Gar- 
rifon  ;  taking  it  for  granted,  that  no  Town 
in  Catalonia,   Barcelona  excepted,    could 
make  long    Refiftance  ,•    and  in  cafe  the 
Troops  in  that  Garrifon  fhould  purfue  them, 
they  then  might  have  an  Opportunity  of 
fighting  them  at  lefs  Difadvantage  in  the 
open  Field,   than  behind  the  Walls  of  a 
Place    of  fuch    Strength,     And,    indeed, 
fhould   they  have  iffu'd   out  on  any  fuch 
Deiign,  a  Defeat  of  thofe  Troops  would 
have  put  the  Province  of  Cataloni-a,  toge- 
ther with  the  Kingdoms  of  J r agon  and  Va» 

Ipicicu 


l*9l 

lencia,  into  the  Hands  of  King  Charles  more 
effectually  than  the  taking  of  Barcelona  it 
felf. 

Let  it  be  obfervM,  en  pajjant,  that  by 
thofe  Offers  of  the  Land  Officers  in  a  Coun- 
cil of  War,  it  is  eafy  to  imagine  what  would 
have  been  the  Succefs  of  our  Troops,  had 
they  march'd  dire&ly  from  Valencia  to 
Madrid.  For  if  after  two  Months  Alarm, 
it  was  thought  reafonable,  as  well  as  prac- 
ticable, to  march  into  the  open  Country 
rather  than  attempt  the  Siege  of  Barcelona^ 
where  Forces  equal,  if  not  fuperior  in  Num- 
ber, were  ready  to,  follow  us  at  the  Heels ; 
what  might  not  have  been  expe&ed  from  an 
Invafion  by  our  Troops  when  and  where 
they  could  meet  with  little  Oppofition  ? 
But  leaving  the  Confideration  of  what  might 
have  been,  I  fhall  now  endeavour  at  leaft 
with  great  Exa&nefs  to  fet  down  fome  of 
the  moft  remarkable  Events  from  our  taking 
to  the  Relief  of  Barcelona. 

The  repeated  Refufals  of  the  Councils 
of  War  for  undertaking  the  Siege  of  fo 
ftrong  a  Place,  with  a  Garrifon  fo  nume- 
rous, and  thofe  Refufals  grounded  upon 
fuch  folid  Reafons,  againft  a  Defign  fo 
rafli,  reduced  the  General  to  the  utmoft  Per- 
plexity. The  Court  of  King  Charles  was 
immerg'd  in  complaint ;  all  belonging  to 
him  lamenting  the  hard  Fate  of  that  Prince, 
$o  be  brought  into  Catalonia  only  to  return 

again. 


[9°] 

again,  withdut  the  Offer  of  any  one  Effort 
in  his  Favour.  On  fhe  other  Hand,  our 
own  Officers  and  Soldiers  were  highly  diffa- 
tisfy'd,  that  they  were  reproach'd,  becaufe 
not  difpos'd  to  enter  upon  and  engage  them- 
felves  in  Impofiibilities.  An»d,  indeed,  in 
the  Manner  that  the  Siege  was  propos'd  and 
iniifted  tfpon  by  the  Prince  of  Heffe^  in  e- 
very  of  the  feveral  Councils  of  War,  after 
the  Lofs  of  many  Men,  thrown  away  to 
no  othe^r  purpofe,  but  to  avoid  the  Shame 
(as  the  Efpreifion  ran)  of  coming  like  Fools 
and  going  away  like  Cowards,  it  could 
have  ended  in  nothing  but  a  Retreat  at 
lafr. 

J*r  afforded  but  Mall  Comfort  to  the 
Earl  to  have  forefeen  all  thefe  Difficulties, 
and  to  have  it  in  his  Power  to  fay,  that  he 
would  never  have  taken  the  Arch-Duke  on 
Board,  nor  have  propos'd  to  him  the  Hopes 
of  a  Recovery  of  the  SpaniJJj  Monarchy  from 
King  Philips  if  he  could  have  imagined  it 
probable,  that  he  fhould  not  have  been  at 
liberty  to  purfue  his  own  Defign,  according 
to  his  own  Judgment.  It  muft  be  allowed 
very  hard  for  him,  who  had  undertaken  fo 
great  a  Work,  and  that  without  any  Orders 
from  the  Government;  and  by  fo  doing 
could  have  had  no  Juftification  but  by  Suc- 
cefs  •  I  fay,  it  muft  be  allow'd  to  be  very 
hard  (after  the  Undertaking  had  been  ap- 
prov'd  in  England)    that  he  fhould  find 

him- 


L  91  J 

himfelf  to  be  dire&ed  in  this  Manner  by 
thofe  at  a  Diftance,  upon  ill  grounded  and 
confident  Reports  from  Mr.  ''Crow ;  and 
compel! 'd ,  as  it  were,  though  Genera^ 
to  follow  the  Sentiments  of  Strangers,  who 
either  had  private  Views  of  Ambition,  or 
had  no  immediate  Care  or  Concern  for  the 
Troops  employ 'd  in  this  Expedition. 

Such  were  the  prefent  unhappy  Circum- 
■ftanches  of  the  Earl  of  Peterborow  in  the 
Camp  before  'Barcelona:  Impofllbilities  pro- 
pos'd  j  no  Expedients  to  be  accepted;  a 
Court  reproaching  ;  Councils  of  War  re- 
jecting ;  and  the  T^utch  General  refufing 
the  Afii fiance  of  the  Troops  under  his  Com- 
mand ;  and  what  futmounted  all,  a  Defpair 
of  bringing  fuch  Animofities  and  differing 
Opinions  to  any  tolerable  Agreement.  Yet 
all  thefe  Difficulties,  inftead  of  difcouraging 
the  Earl,  fet  every  Faculty  of  hismore  afloat  $ 
and,  at  laft,  produe'd  a  luckyThought,  which 
was  happily  attended  with  Events  extraor- 
dinary, and  Scenes  of  Succefs  much  beyond 
his  Expe&ation ;  fuch  as  the  General  him- 
felf was  heard  to  confefs,  it  had  been  next 
to  Folly  to  have  look'd  for  3-  as  certainly^ 
in  prima  facie,  it  would  hardly  have  born 
propofing,  to  take  by  Surprize  a  Place  much 
flxonger  than  Barcelona  it  felf  True  it  is, 
that  his  only  Hope  of  fucceeding  confifted 
in  this :  That  no  Perfon  could  fuppofe  fuch 
an  Enterprize  could  enter  into  the  Imagina- 
tion 


C  9*  1 

tion  of  Man  ->  and  without  doubt  the  Gene- 
ral's chief  Dependence  lay  upon  what  he 
found  true  in  the  Sequel ;  that  the  Gover- 
nor and  Garrifon  of  Monjouick^  by  reafon  of 
their  own  Security,  would  be  very  negli- 
gent, and  very  little  upon  their  Guard. 

However,  to  make  the  Experiment,  he 
took  an  Opportunity,  unknown  to  any 
Perfon  but  an  Aid  de  Camp  that  attended 
him,  and  went  out  to  view  the  Fortifica- 
tions: And  there  being  no  Horfe  in  that 
ftrong  Fortrefs,-  and  the  Miquelets  being 
poflefs'd  of  all  the  Houfes  and  Gardens  in 
the  Plain,  it  was  not  difficult  to  give  him- 
felf  that  Satisfa&ion,  taking  his  Way  by 
the  Foot  of  the  Hill.  The  Obfervation  he 
made  of  the  Place  it  felf,  the  Negligence 
and  Supinenefs  of  the  Garrifon,  together 
with  his  own  uneafy  Circumftances,  foon 
brought  the  Earl  to  a  Refolution  of  putting 
his  firft  Conceptions  in  Execution,  fatis- 
fy'd  as  he  was,  from  the  Situation  of  the 
Ground  between  Monjouick  and  the  Town, 
that  if  the  firft  was  in  our  PofTefTion,  the 
Siege  of  the  latter  might  be  undertaken  with 
fome  Profpect  of  Succefs. 

From  what  has  been  faid,  fome  may  be 
apt  to  conclude  that  the  Siege  afterward 
fucceeding,  when  the  Attack  was  made 
from  the  Side  of  Monjouich  it  had  not  been 
impoiTible  to  have  prevail'd,  if  the  Effort 
had  been  made  on  the  Eaft  Side  of  the 
\  Town, 


[93] 

Town,  where  our  Forces  were  at  firft  en- 
camp'd,  and  where  only  we  could  have 
made  our  Approaches,  if  Monjouick  had 
not  been  in  our  Power.  But  a  Few  Words 
will  convince  any  of  common  Experience  of 
the  utter  Impoflibility  of  Succefs  upon  the 
Eaft  Part  of  the  Town,  although  many  al- 
moft  miraculous  Accidents  made  us  fucceed 
when  we  brought  our  Batteries  to  bear  upon 
that  Part  of  Barcelona  towards  the  Weft. 
The  Ground  to  the  Eaft  was  a  perfect  Level 
for  many  Miles,  which  would  have  necef- 
fitated  our  making  our  Approaches  in  a  re- 
gular Way  ;  and  confequently  our  Men 
muft  have  been  expos'd  to  the  full  Fire  of 
their  whole  Artillery.  Befides,  the  Town 
is  on  that  Side  much  ftronger  than  any  o- 
ther ;  there  is  an  Out- work  juft  under  the 
Walls  of  the  Town,  flank'd  by  the  Cour- 
tin  and  the  Faces  of  two  Baftions,  which 
might  have  coft  us  half  our  Troops  to 
poffefs,  before  we  could  have  rais'd  a  Bat- 
tery againft  the  Walls.  Or  fuppofing, 
after  all,  a  competent  Breach  had  been 
made,  what  a  wife  Piece  of  Work  muft  it 
have  been  to  have  attempted  a  Storm  a- 
gainft  double  the  Number  of  regular  Troops 
within  ? 

On  the  contrary,  we  were  fo  favour'd  by 
the  Situation,  when  we  made  the  Attack 
from  the  Side  of  Monjouick)  that  the  Breach 
was  made  and   the  Town  taken  without 

opening 


opening  of  Trenches,  or  without  our  being 
at  all  incommoded  by  any  Sallies  of  the 
Enemy  ,-  as  in  truth  they  made  not  one  du- 
ring the  whole  Siege.  Our  great  Battery, 
which  confifted  of  upwards  of  fifty  heavy 
Cannon,  fupply'd  from  the  Ships,  and  ma- 
nag'd  by  the  Seamen,  were  plac'd  upon  a 
Spot  of  rifing  Ground,  juft  large  enough  to 
contain  our  Guns,  with  two  deep  hollow 
Ways  on  each  Side  the  Field,  at  each  End 
whereof  we  had  rais'd  a  little  Redoubt, 
which  ferv'd  to  preferve  our  Men  from  the 
Shot  of  the  Town.  Thofe  little  Redoubts, 
in  which  we  had  fome  Field  Pieces,  flank'd 
the  Battery,  and  render'd  it  intirely  fecure 
from  any  Surprize  of  the  Enemy.  There 
were  feveral  other  fmaller  Batteries  rais'd 
upon  the  Hills  adjacent,  in  Places  not  to  be 
approach'd,  which,  in  a  manner,  rendered 
all  the  Artillery  of  the  Enemy  ufelefs,  by 
reafon  their  Men  could  not  ply  'em,  but 
with  the  utmoft  Danger ;  whereas  ours 
were  fecure,  very  few  being  kill'd,  and 
thofe  moftly  by  random  Shot. 

But  to  return  to  the  General ;  fore'd,  as 
he  was,  to  take  this  extraordinary  Refohi- 
tion,  he  concluded,  the  readielt  Way  to  fur- 
prize  his  Enemies  was  to  elude  his  Friends. 
He  therefore  calFd  a  Council  of  War  afhore, 
of  the  Land  Officers  -  and  aboard,  of  the 
Admirals  and  Sea  Officers :  In  both  which 
it  was  refolv'd,  that  in  cafe  the  Siege  of 

'Bar- 


[  95  3 

'Barcelona  was  judg'd  impra&icable,  and 
that  the  Troops  fliould  be  re-imbark'd  by  a 
Day  appointed,  an  Effort  fhould  he  made 
upon  the  Kingdom  of  Naples.  According- 
ly, the  Day  affix'd  being  come,  the  heavy 
Artillery  landed  for  the  Siege  was  return \i 
aboard  the  Ships,  and  every  thing  in  ap- 
pearance prepared  for  a  Re-imbarkment. 
During  which,  the  General  was  oblig'd  to 
undergo  all  the  Reproaches  of  a  diffatisfy'd 
Court ;  and  what  was  more  uneafy  to  him, 
the  Murmurings  of  the  Sea  Officers,  who, 
not  fo  competent  Judges  in  what  related  to 
Sieges,  were  one  and  all  inclin'd  to  a,  De- 
fign  upon  "Barcelona  -,  and  the  rather,  be- 
caufe  as  the  Seafon  was  fo  far  fpent,  it  was 
thought  altogether  improper  to  engage  the 
Fleet  in  any  new  Undertaking,  However, 
all  Things  were  fo  well  difguis'd  by  our 
feeming  Preparations  for  a  Retreat,  that 
the  very  Night  our  Troops  were  in  March 
towards  the  Attack  of  Monjoukk^  there  were 
publick  Entertainments  and  Rejoicings  in 
the  1  own  for  the  raifing  of  the  Siege. 

The  Prince  of  Hejfe  had  taken  large  Li- 
berties in  complaining  againft  all  the  Pro- 
ceedings in  the  Camp  before  Barcelona; 
even  to  Infinuations,  that  though  the  Earl 
gave  his  Opinion  for  fome  Effort  in  publick, 
yet  us'd  he  not  fhfficient  Authority  over  the 
otherGenerai  Officers  to  incline  them  to  com- 
ply i  throwing  out  withal  fome  Hints,  that  the 
i  General 


[96] 

General  from  the  Beginning  had  declared 
himfelf  in  favour  of  other  Operations,  and 
againft  coming  to  Catalonia -y  the  latter 
Part  whereof  was  nothing  but  Fad.  On 
the  other  Side,  the  Earl  of  Teterborow 
complain'd,  that  the  boafted  Afliftance  was 
no  way  made  good ;  and  that  in  failure 
thereof,  his  Troops  were  to  be  facrificed  to 
the  Humours  of  a  Stranger;  one  who  had 
no  Command ;  and  whofe  Condufi:  might 
bear  a  Queftion  whether  equal  to  his  Cou- 
rage* Thefe  Reproaches  of  one  another 
had  bred  fo  much  ill  Blood  between  thofe 
two  great  Men,  that  for  above  a  Fortnight 
they  had  no  Correfpondence,  nor  ever  ex- 
chang'd  one  Word. 
The  Eari  The  Earl,  however,  having  made  his 
marches  u  proper  Difpofitions,  and  deliver'd  out  his 

Monjouick0rder%  began    his  March    in    the    Evening 

with  twelve  Hundred  Foot  and  two  Hun- 
drecffiorfe,  which  of  neceffity  were  to  pafs 
by  the  Quarters  of  the  Prince  of  Heffe. 
That  Prince,  on  their  Appearance,  wTas  told 
that  the  General  was  come  to  fpeak  with 
him  ^  and  being  brought  into  his  Apart- 
ment, the  Earl  acquainted  him,  that  he  had 
at  laft  refolv'd  upon  an  Attempt  againft  the 
Enemy ;  adding,  that  now,  if  he  pleas'd, 
he  might  be  a  Judge  of  their  Behaviour, 
and  fee  whether  his  Officers  and  Soldiers 
had  deferv'd  that  Chara&er  which  he  had 
fo  liberally  given  'em.    The  Prince  made 

anfwer, 


C  97  3 

anfwer,  that  he  had  always  been  ready  to 
take  his  Share ;  but  could  hardly  belie  ve3 
that  Troops  marching  that  way  could  make 
any  Attempt  againft  the  Enemy  to  fatisfac- 
tion.  However,  without  further  Difcourfe 
he  cali'd  for  his  Horfe. 

By  this  we  may  fee  what  Share  Fortune 
has  in  the  greateft  Events.  In  all  probabi- 
lity the  Earl  of  Teterborow  had  never  en- 
gag'd  in  fuch  a  dangerous  Affair  in  cold 
Blood  and  unprovoked  ;  and  if  fuch  an  En- 
terprize  had  been  refolv'd  oh  in  a  regular 
Way,  it  is  very  likely  he  might  have  given 
the  Command  to  fome  of  the  General 
Officers  ,*  fince  it  is  not  ufual,  nor  hardly 
allowable,  for  one,  that  commands  in  chief* 
to  go  in  Perfon  on  fuch  kind  of  Services* 
But  here  we  fee  the  General  and  Prince, 
notwithftanding  their  late  indifferent  Har- 
mony, engag'd  together  in  this  moil  de- 
fperate  Undertaking* 

Brigadier  Stanhope  and  Mr.  Methueu 
(now  Sir  Paul)  were  the  General's  parti- 
cular Friends,  and  thofe  he  moft  confulted3 
and  moft  confided  in ;  yet  he  never  imparted 
this  Refolution  of  his  to  either  of  them  ,• 
for  he  was  not  willing  to  engage  them  in  a 
Defigri  fo  dangerous,  and  where  there  was 
fo  little  Hope  of  Sueeefs  5  rather  choofing 
to  referve  them  as  Perfons  moft  capable  of 
giving  Advice  and  Afliftance  in  the  Confu* 
lion,  great  enough  already^  which  yet  muft 

H  have 


[9*1 

have  been  greater,  if  any  Accident  had  hap- 
pen'd  to  himfelf.     And  I  have  very  good 
Reafon  to  believe,  that  the  Motive,  which 
mainly  engag'd  the  Earl  of  Teterborow  in 
this  Enterprize,  was  to  fatisfy  the  Prince  of 
Hejfe  and  the  World,   that  his  Diffidence 
proceeded  from  his  Concern  for  the  Troops 
committed  to  his  Charge,  and  not  for  his 
own  Perfon.    On  the  other  Hand,  the  great 
Chara&ers  of  the  two  Gentlemen  juft  men- 
tion'd  are  fo  well  known,  that  it  will  eafily 
gain  Credit,  that  the  only  Way  the  Gene- 
ral could  take  to  prevent  their  being  of  the 
Party,  was  to  conceal  it  from  them,  as  he 
did  from  all  Mankind,  even  from  the  Arch- 
Duke  himfelf.     And  certainly  there  never 
was  a  more  univerfal  Surprize  than  when 
the  firing  was  heard  next  Morning  from 
Monjouich 

But  I  now  proceed  to  give  an  exa&  Ac- 
count of  this  great  A&ion ;  of  which  no  Per- 
fon, that  I  have  heard  of,  ever  yet  took  upon 
him  to  deliver  to  Pofterity  the  glorious  Par- 
ticulars ;  and  yet  the  Confequences  and 
Events,  by  what  follows,  will  appear  fo 
great,  and  fo  very  extraordinary,  that  few, 
if  any,  had  they  had  it  in  their  Power, 
would  have  deny'd  themfelves  the  Pleafure 
or  the  World  the  Satisfaction  of  knowing 
it. 

The  Troops,  which  march'd  all  Night 
along  the  Foot  of  the  Mountains,  arrived 

two 


[99] 

two  Hours  before  Day  under  the  Hill  of 
Monjouick)  not  a  Quarter  of  a  Mile  from 
the  outward  Works:  For  this  Reafon  it 
was  taken  for  granted,  whatever  the  De- 
fign  was  which  the  General  had  propos'd  to 
himfelf,  that  it  would  be  put  in  Execution 
before  Day-light ;  but  the  Earl  of  Peter- 
borow  was  now  pleas'd  to  inform  the 
Officers  of  the  Reafons  why  he  chqfe  to 
flay  till  the  Light  appeared.  He  was  of 
opinion  that  any  Succefs  would  be  impoC* 
Able,  unlefs  the  Enemy  came  into  the  out* 
ward  Ditch  under  the  Baftions  of  thefecond 
Enclofure ;  but  that  if  they  had  time  al- 
low'd  them  to  come  thither,  there  being  no 
Palifadoes,  our  Men^  by  leaping  in  upon 
them,  after  receipt  of  their  firft  Fire,  might 
drive  'em  into  the  upper  Works  ,•  and  fol- 
lowing them  clofe,  with  fome  Probability, 
might  force  them,  under  that  Confufion,  in-* 
to  the  inward  Fortifications* 

Sac  b  were  the  General's  Reafons  then  and 
there  given  ;  after  which,  having  promis'd 
ample  Rewards  to  fuch  as  difcharg  d  their 
Duty  well,  a  Lieutenant,  with  thirty  Men, 
was  order'd  to  advance  towards  the  Baftion 
neareft  the  Town  ;  and  a  Captain,  with 
fifty  Men,  to  fupport  him.  After  the  Ene- 
my's Fire  they  were  to  leap  into  the  Ditch, 
and  their  Orders  were  to  follow  'em  clofe, 
if  they  retired  into  the  upper  Works :  Never- 
thelefs5  not  to  purfue  'em  farther,  if  they 

H  %  made 


[  1°°  ] 

made  into  the  inner  Fort  $  but  to  endeavour 
to  cover  themfelves  within  the  Gorge  of  the 
Baftion. 

A  Lieutenant  and  a  Captain,  with  the 
like  Number  of  Men  and  the  fame  Orders, 
were  commanded  to  a  Demi- Baftion  at  the 
Extremity  of  the  Fort  towards  the  Weft, 
which  was  above  Mu$ket-Shot  from  the  in- 
ward Fortification.  Towards  this  Place  the 
Wall 3  which  was  cut  into  the  Rock,  was 
not  facd  for  about  twenty  Yards  $  and 
here  our  own  Men  got  up ;  where  they 
found  three  Pieces  of  Cannon  upon  a  Plat- 
form, without  any  Men  to  defend  them. 

Those  appointed  to  the  Baftion  towards 
the  Town  were  fuftain'd  by  two  hundred 
Men  $  with  which  the  General  and  Prince 
went  in  Perfon.  The  like  Number,  under 
the  Dire&ions  of  Colonel  Southwell,  were 
to  fuftain  the  Attack  towards  the  Weft ; 
|md  about  five  hundred  Men  were  left  under 
the  Command  of  a  Dtitch  Colonel,  whofe 
Orders  were  to  affift,  where,  in  his  own 
Judgment,  he  Ihould  think  moft  proper  ; 
and  thefe  were  drawn  up  between  the  two 
Parties  appointed  to  begin  the  Aflault.  My 
Lot  was  on  the  Side  where  the  Prince  and 
Earl  were  in  Perfon ;  and  where  we  fu- 
ftain'd the  only  Lofs  from  the  firft  Fire  of 
the  Enemy. 

Our  Men,  though  quite  expos'd,  and 
though  the  Glacis  was  all  efcarp'd  upon  the 

live 


[    101    ] 

live  Rock,   went  on   with  an  undaunted  &*&&- 
Courage^  and  immediately  after  the  firft'^f"7 
Fire  of  the  Enemy ,    all,    that  were  notMonjoukk 
kilfd  or  wounded,   leaped  in,  peUmel^   a- 
mongft  the  Enemy  ;  who,  being  thus  boldly 
attack'd,  and  feeing  others  pouring  in  upon 
em,  retir'd  in  great  Confufion  ,•  and  fome  one 
Way,  fome  another,  ran  into  the  inward 
Works. 

There  was  a  large  Port  in  the  Flank 
of  the  principal  Baftion,  towards  the  North- 
Eaft,  and  a  cover'd  Way,,  through  which 
the  General  and  the  Prince  of  Hejfe  followed 
the  flying  Forces  ,•  and  by  that  Means  be- 
came pofiefs'd  of  it.  Luckily  enough  here 
lay  a  Number  of  great  Stones  in  the  Gorge 
of  the  Baftion,  for  the  Ufe  of  the  Fortifi- 
cation ;  with  which  we  made  a  Sort  of 
Breaft-Work,  before  the  Enemy  recover'd 
of  their  Amaze,  or  made  any  confiderable 
Fire  upon  us  from  their  inward  Fort,  which 
commanded  the  upper  Part  of  that  Baftion. 

We  were  afterwards  inform'd,  that  the 
Commander  of  the  Citadel,  expe&ing  but 
one  Attack,  had  call'd  off  the  Men  from  the 
moft  diftant  and  weftern  Part  of  the  Fort,  to 
that  Side  which  was  next  the  Town ;  upon 
which  our  Men  got  into  a  Demi-Baftion  in 
the  moft  extream  Part  of  the  Fortification. 
Here  they  got  Poffeflion  of  three  Pieces  of 
Cannon,  with  hardly  any  Oppofition  $  and 
had  Leifure  to  caft  up  a  little  Retrenchment, 
H  3  and 


[  ioa.] 

and  to  make  ufe  of  the  Guns  they  had  taken 
to  defend  it.     Under   this  Situation,   the 
Enemy,  when  drove  into  the  inward  Fort, 
were  expos'd  to  our  Fire  from  thofe  Places 
we   were  poffefs'd  of,  in  cafe  they  offer'd 
to  make  any  Sally,  or  other  Attempt  againft 
us.     Thus  we  every  Moment  became  better 
and  better  prepar'd  againft  any  Effort  of  the 
Garrifon.     And  as  they  could  not  pretend 
to  affail  us  without  evident  Hazard  ->   fo  no- 
thing remain' d  for  us  to  do,  till  we  could 
bring  up  our  Artillery  and  Mortars.     Now 
it  was  that  the  General  fent  for  the  thoufand 
Men  under  Brigadier  Stanhopes  Command, 
which  he  had  ported  at  a  Convent,  halfway 
between  the  Town  and  Monjouich 

There  was  almoft  a  total  Ceffation  of 
Fire,  the  Men  on  both  Sides  being  under 
Cover.  The  General  was  in  the  upper 
Part  of  the  Baftion ;  the  Prince  of  Heffe  be- 
low, behind  a  little  Work  at  the  Point  of 
the  Baftion,  whence  he  could  only  fee  the 
Heads  of  the  Enemy  over  the  Parapet  of 
the  inward  Fort.  Soon  after  an  Accident 
happen'd  which  cod  that  gallant  Prince  his 
Life. 

The  Enemy  had  Lines  of  Communica- 
tion between  'Barcelona  and  Monjouich 
The  Governor  of  the  former,  upon  hearing 
the  firing  from  the  latter,  immediately  fent 
four  hundred  Dragoons  on  Horfeback,  un- 
der Orders,  that  two  Hundred  difmounting 

ihould 


[  i°H 

fhould  reinforce  the  Garrifon,  and  the  other 
two  Hundred  fhould  return  with  their 
Horfes  back  to  the  Town. 

When  thofe  two  Hundred  Dragoons- 
were  accordingly  got  into  the  inward  Fort, 
unfeen  by  any  of  our  Men,  the  Spaniards ,. 
waving  their  Hats  over  their  Heads,  re- 
peated over  and  over,  ffiva  el  Rey,  Viva. 
This  the  Prince  of  Heffe  unfortunately  took 
for  a  Signal  of  their  Defire  to  furrender. 
Upon  which,  with  too  much  Warmth  and 
Precipitancy,  calling  to  the  Soldiers  fol- 
lowing, They  fw render,  they  furrender > 
he  advancd  with  near  three  Hundred  Men 
(who  followed  him  without  any  Orders  from 
their  General)  along  the  Curtain  which  led 
to  the  Ditch  of  the  inward  Fort.  The  F-jfowam- 
nemy  fuffer'd  them  to  come  into  the  Ditch,  fj^ 
and  there  furrounding  em,  took  two  Hun-^sPa- 
dred  of  them  Prifoners,  at  the  fame  timen™ds- 
making  a  Difcharge  upon  the  reft,  who 
were  running  back  theWay  they  came.  This 
firing  brought  the  Earl  of  Teterborow  down 
from  the  upper  Part  of  the  Baftion,  to  fee 
what  was  doing  below.  When  he  had  juft 
turn'd  the  Point  of  the  Baftion,  he  faw  the 
Prince  of  Heffe  retiring,  with  the  Men  that 
had  fo  rafhly  advancd.  The  Earl  had  ex- 
changed a  very  few  Words  with  him,  when, 
from  a  fecond  Fire,  that  Prince  received  arfoPrwce 
Shot  in  the  great  Artery  of  the  Thigh,  oP£" 
which  he  died  immediately^  falling  down 
G  4  at 


Heffe 


Mf 


C  *Q4  1 

at  the  General's  Feet,  who  inftantly  gave 
Orders  to  carry  off  the  Body  to  the  next 
Convent. 

Almost  the  fame  Moment  an  Officer 
came  to  acquaint  the  Earl  of  Teterborow, 
that  a  great  Body  of  Horfe  and  Foot,  at 
leaft  three  Thoufand,  were  on  their  March 
from  Barcelona  towards  the  Fort.  The 
Pittance  is  near  a  Mile,  all  uneven  Ground  $ 
fo  that  the  Enemy  was  either  difcoverable, 
or  not  to  be  feen5  juft  as  they  were  marching 
on  the  Hills  or  in  the  Vallies.  However, 
the  General  dire&ly  got  on  Horfe-back,  to 
take  a  View  ofthofe  Forces  from  the  rifing 
Ground  without  the  Fort,  having  left  all 
the  Pofts,  which  were  already  taken,  well 
fecur'd  with  the  allotted  Numbers  of  Officers 
and  Soldiers. 

But  the  Event  will  demonftrate  of  what 
Confequence  the  Abfence  or  Prefence  of  one 
Man  may  prove  on  great  Occafions  :  No 
fooner  was  the  Earl  out  of  the  Fort,  the 
Care  of  which  he  had  left  under  theCornmand 
of  the  Lord  Charlemont  (a  Perfon  of  known 
Merit  and  undoubted  Courage,  but  fome- 
what  too  flexible  in  his  Temper)  when  a 
panick  Fear  (tho'  the  Earl,  as  I  have  faid, 
was  only  gone  to  take  a  View  of  the  E- 
nemy)  faVd  i  pon  the  Soldiery,  which  was 
a  little  too  eafily  corrply'd  with  by  the 
Lord  Charlemont)  then  commanding  Officer. 
True  it  is  -3    for  I  heard  an  Officer,   ready 

enough 


C  105  1 

enough  to  take  fuch  Advantages,  urge  to 
him,  that  none  of  all  thofe  Pofts  we  were 
become  Matters  of,  were  tenable;  that  to 
offer  at  it  would  be  no  better  than  wilfully 
facrificing  human  Lives  to  Caprice  and  Hu- 
mour ;  and  juft  like  a  Man's  knocking  his 
Head  againft  Stone  Walls,  to  try  which 
was  bardeft.  Having  over-heard  this  Piece 
of  Lip-Oratory,  and  finding  by  the  Anfwer 
that  it  was  too  likely  to  prevail,  and  that 
all  I  was  like  to  fay  would  avail  nothing,  I 
dipt  away  as  faft  as  I  could,  to  acquaint  the 
General  with  the  Danger  impending. 

As  I  pafs'd  along,  I  took  notice  that 
the  Panick  was  upon  the  Increafe,  the  ge- 
neral Rumor  affirming,  that  we  lliould  be  all 
cut  off  by  the  Troops  that  were  come  out 
of  "Barcelona^  if  we  did  not  immediately 
gain  the  Hills,  or  the  Houfes  poffefs'd  by  the 
Miquekts.  Officers  and  Soldiers,  under 
this  prevailing  Terror,  quitted  their  Pofts i 
and  in  one  united  Body  (the  Lord  Charle- 
mont  at  the  Head  of  them)  march'd,  or 
rather  hurry 'd  out  of  the  Fort  ^  and  were 
come  half  way  down  the  Hill  before  the 
Earl  of  Tcterborow  came  up  to  them. 
Though  on  my  acquainting  him  with  the 
fhameful  and  furprizing  Accident  he  made 
no  Stay ;  but  anfvvering,  with  a  good  deal 
of  Vehemence,  Good  God,  is  it  pcflible? 
haften'd  back  as  faft  as  he  could. 

I    NEVER 


[io6] 

I  never  thought  my  felf  happier  than 
in  this  Piece  of  Service  to  my  Country.  I 
confefs  I  could  not  but  value  it,  as  having 
been  therein  more  than  a  little  inftrumental 
in  the  glorious  Succefles  which  fucceeded  ; 
fince  immediately  upon  this  Notice  from 
me,  the  Earl  gallop'd  up  the  Hill,  and  light- 
ing when  he  came  to  Lord  Charkmont^  he 
took  his  Half- Pike  out  of  his  Hand,-  and 
turning  to  the  Officers  and  Soldiers,  told 
them,  if  they  would  not  face  about  and 
follow  him,  they  fliould  have  the  Scandal 
and  eternal  Infamy  upon  them  of  having  de- 
ferted  their  Pofts,  and  abandon'd  their  Ge- 
neral. 

It  was  furprizing  to  fee  with  what  Ala- 
crity and  new  Courage  they  fac'd  about 
and  follow'd  the  Earl  of  'Peterborow.  In 
a  Moment  they  had  forgot  their  Apprehen- 
sions; and,  without  doubt,  had  they  met 
with  any  Oppofition,  they  would  have  be- 
hav'd  themfelves  with  the  greateft  Bravery. 
But  as  thefe  Motions  were,  unperceiv'd  by 
the  Enemy,  all  the  Pofts  were  regain'd,  and 
anew  poffefs'd  in  lefs  than  half  an  Hour, 
without  any  Lofs  :  Though,  had  our  Forces 
march'd  half  Musket-fhot  farther,  their  Re- 
treat would  have  been  perceiv'd,  and  all 
the  Succefs  attendant  on  this  glorious  At- 
tempt muft  have  been  intirely  blafted. 

Another  Incident  which  attended  this 

happy  Enterprise  was  this :   The  two  hun- 

i  dred 


C  107  ] 

dred  Men  which  fell  into  the  Hands  of  the 
Enemy,  by  the  unhappy  Miftake  of  the 
Prince  of  Heffe,  were  carry 'd  dire&ly  into 
the  Town.  The  Marquifs  of  Kishirg^  a 
Lieutenant-General,  who  commanded  the 
three  thoufand  Men  which  were  marching 
from  the  Town  to  the  Relief  of  the  Fort, 
examin'd  the  Prifoners,  as  they  pafs'd  by  ; 
and  they  all  agreeing  that  the  General  and 
the  Prince  of  Hejje  were  in  Perfon  with  the 
Troops  that  made  the  Attack  on  Monjotiick^ 
the  Marquifs  gave  immediate  Orders  to  re- 
tire to  the  Town  -}  taking  it  for  granted, 
that  the  main  Body  of  the  Troops  attended 
the  Prince  and  General;  and  that  fome  De- 
fign  therefore  was  on  foot  to  intercept  his 
Return,  in  cafe  he  fliould  venture  too  far. 
Thus  the  unfortunate  Lofs  of  our  two  hun- 
dred Men  turn'd  to  our  Advantage,  in  pre- 
venting the  Advance  of  the  Enemy,  which 
muft  have  put  the  Earl  of  Peterborow  to  in- 
conceivable Difficulties. 

The  Body  of  one  Thoufand,  under 
Brigadier  Stanhope,  being  come  up  to  Mon- 
jcwck,  and  no  Interruption  given  us  by  the 
Enemy,  our  Affairs  were  put  into  very 
good  Order  on  this  Side  j  while  the  Camp 
on  the  other  Side  was  fo  fortify 'd,  that  the 
Enemy,  during  the  Siege,  never  made  one 
Effort  againft  it.  In  the  mean  time,  the 
Communication  between  the  two  Camps 
was  fecure  enough ;  although  our  Troops 

were 


C  108  ] 

were  oblig'd  to  a  tedious  March  along  the 
Foot  of  the  Hills,  whenever  the  General 
thought  fit  to  relieve  thofc  on  Duty  on  the 
Side  of  the  Attack,  from  thofe  Regiments 
encamp'd  on  the  Weft  Side  of  "Barcelona. 

The  next  Day,  after  the  Earl  of  Peter- 
horow  had  taken  Care  to  fecure  the  firft 
Camp  to  the  Eaftward  of  the  Town,  he 
gave  Orders  to  the  Officers  of  the  Fleet  to 
land  the  Artillery  and  Ammunition  behind 
the  Fortrefs  to  the  Weftward.  Immediate- 
ly upon  the  Landing  whereof,  two  Mortars 
were  fix'd  j  from  both  which  we  ply'd  the 
Fort  of  Monjvuick  furioufly  with  our  Bombs. 
But  the  third  or  fourth  Day,  one  of  our 
Shells  fortunately  lighting  on  their  Maga- 
Magazine  Tine  of  Powder,  blew  it  up ;  and  with  it  the 
tf  Mon-  Governor,  and  many  principal  Officers  who 
£«w  uft  were  at  Dinner  with  him.  The  Blaft,  at  the 
and  the  '  fame  Inftant,  threw  down  a  Face  of  one  of 
22f  the  Waller  Baftions  j  which  the  vigilant  Mi- 
queletS)  ready  enough  to  take  all  Advantages, 
no  fooner  faw  (for  they  were  under  the 
Hill,  very  near  the  Place)  but  they  readily 
enter'd,  while  the  Enemy  were  under  the 
utmoft  Confufion.  If  the  Earl,  no  lefs 
watchful  than  they,  had  not  at  the  fame 
Moment  thrown  himfelf  in  with  fome  regu- 
lar Troops,  and  appeas'd  the  general  Dis- 
order, in  all  probability  the  Garrifon  had 
been  put  to  the  Sword.  However,  the  Ge- 
neral's Prefence  not  only  allay'd  the  Fury  of 

the 


[  io9  ] 

the  Miqttekts ;  but  kept  his  own  Troops 
under  ftri&eft  Difcipline :  So  that  in  a  happy 
Hour  for  the  frighted  Garrifon^  the  Gene- 
ral gave  Officers  and  Soldiers  Quarters , 
making  them  Prifoners  of  War. 

How  critical  was  that  Minute  wherein 
the  General  met  his  retreating  Commander? 
a  very  few  Steps  farther  had  excluded  us 
our  own  Conquefts,  to  the  utter  Lofs  of  all 
thofe  greater  Glories  which  enfu'd.  Nor 
would  that  have  been  the  worft  j  for  be- 
fides  the  Shame  attending  fuch  an  ill  con- 
certed Retreat  from  our  Acquefts  on  Mon- 
jouick)  we  muft  have  felt  the  accumulative 
Difgrace  ofinfamoufly  retiring  aboard  the 
Ships  that  brought  us  ,•  but  Heaven  referv'd 
for  our  General  amazing  Scenes  both  of 
Glory  and  Mortification. 

I  cannot  here  omit  one  Singularity  of 
Life,  which  will  demonflrate  Men's  different 
Way  of  Thinking,  if  not  fomewhat  worfe  -> 
when  many  Years  after,  to  one  in  Office, 
who  feem'd  a  little  too  deaf  to  my  Com- 
plaints, and  by  that  Means  irritating  my 
human  Pailions,  in  Juftice  to  my  felf,  as 
well  as  Caufe,  I  urg'd  this  Piece  of  Service, 
by  which  I  not  only  preferv'd  the  Place, 
but  the  Honour  of  my  Country  ,•  that  Mi- 
ni ft  er  petite^  to  mortify  my  Expectations 
and  baffle  my  Plea,  with  a  Grimace  as  odd 
as  his  Logick,  return'd,  that,  in  his  Opinion, 
the  Service  pretended  was  a  DifTervice  to 

the 


the  Nation  ;  fince  Perfeverance  had  coft  the 
Government  more  Money  than  all  our  Con- 
quefts  were  worth5  could  we  have  kept  'em* 
So  irregular  are  the  Conceptions  of  Man, 
when  even  great  A&ions  thwart  the  Bent  of 
an  interefted  Will  ! 

The  Fort  of  Monjouick  being  thus  fur- 
prizingly  reduc'd,  furnifh'd  a  ftrange  Viva- 
city to  Mens  Expectations,  and  as  extrava- 
gantly flatter'd  their  Hopes ;   for  as  Succefs 
never  fails  to  excite  weaker  Minds  to  purfue 
their  good  Fortune,  though  many  times  to 
their  own  Lofs ;  fo  is  it  often  too  apt  to  pufli 
on  more  elevated  Spirits  to  renew  the  En- 
counter for  atchieving  new  Conquefts,   by 
hazarding  too  rafhly  all  their  former  Glory. 
Accordingly,   every   Body  now  began  to 
make  his  utmoft  Efforts  $   and  look 'd  upon 
himfelf  as  a  Drone,  if  he  was  not  employ'd 
in  doing  fomething  or  other  towards  pufhing 
forward  the  Siege  of  "Barcelona  it  felf,  and 
raifing  proper  Batteries  for  that    Purpofe. 
But,    after  all,    it  muft  in  Juftice  be  ac- 
knowledge, that  notwithstanding  this  pro- 
digious Succefs  that  attended  this  bold  En- 
terprize,    the  Land  Forces  of  themfelves, 
without  the  Affiftance  of  the  Sailors,  could 
never  have  reduc'd  the  Town.     The  Com- 
manders and  Officers  of  the  Fleet  had  al- 
ways evinc  d  themfelves  Favourers  of  this 
Project  upon  Barcelona.    A  new  Under- 
taking fo  late  in  the  Year,  as  I  have  faid 

before, 


[Ill] 

before,  was  their  utter  Averfion,  and  what 
they  hated  to  hear  of.     Elated  therefore 
with  a  Beginning  fo  aufpicious,  they  gave 
a  more  willing  Affiftance  than  could  have 
been  ask'd,  or  judicioufly  expected.     The 
Admirals  forgot  their  Element,  and  a&ed 
as  General  Officers  at  Land  :  They  came 
every  Day  from  their  Ships,  with  a  Body 
of  Men  form'd  into  Companies,  and  regu- 
larly marflialTd  and  commanded  by  Cap- 
tains and  Lieutenants  of  their  own.     Cap- 
tain Littleton  in  particular,  one  of  the  mod 
advanc'd  Captains  in  the  whole  Fleet,  offer'd 
of  himfelf  to  take  care  of  the  Landing  and 
Conveyance  of  the  Artillery  to  the  Camp. 
And  anfwerable  to  that  his  firft  Zeal  was 
his  Vigour  all  along  ;  for  finding  it  next  to 
an  Impoflibility  to  draw  the  Cannon  and 
Mortars  up  fuch  vaft  Precipices  by  Horfes, 
if  the  Country  had  afforded  them,  he  caus'd 
HarnefTes  to  be  made  for  two  hundred  Men,- 
and  by  that  Means,  after  a  prodigious  Fa- 
tigue and  Labour,  brought  the  Cannon  and 
Mortars  neceilary  for  the  Siege  up  to  the 
very  Batteries. 

In  this  Manner  was  the  Siege  begun  ,•  nor  Barcelona 
was  it  carry'd  on  with  any  lefs  Application  Mteid- 
the  Approaches  being  made  by  an  Army  of 
Befiegers,  that  very  little,  if  at  all,  exceed- 
ed the  Number  of  the  Befieg'd ;  not  alto- 
gether in  a  regular  Manner,  our  kw  Forces 
would  not  admit  it  $  but  yet  with  Regula- 
rity 


[ua] 

rity  enough  to  fecure  our  two  little  Camps^ 
and  preferve  a  Communication  between 
both,  not  to  be  interrupted  or  incommoded 
by  the  Enemy.  We  had  foon  erected  three 
ieveral  Batteries  againft  the  Place,  all  on 
the  Weft  Side  of  the  Town,  mz.  one  of 
nine  Guns,  another  of  Twelve,  and  the 
laft  of  upwards  of  Thirty.  From  all 
which  we  ply'd  the  Town  inceffantly,  and 
with  all  imaginable  Fury ;  and  very  often 
in  whole  Vollies. 

Nevertheless  it  was  thought  not  only 
advifeable>  but  neceflary,  to  erecft  another 
Battery,  upon  a  lower  Piece  of  Ground  un- 
der a  fmall  Hill ;  which  lying  more  within 
Reach,  and  oppofite  to  thofe  Places  where 
the  Walls  were  imagin'd  weakeft,  would 
annoy  the  Town  the  more  $  and  being  de~ 
fignd  for  fix  Guns  only,  might  foon  be  per- 
fe<5ted.  A  French  Engeneer  had  the  Direc- 
tion ;  and  indeed  very  quickly  perfected  it. 
But  when  it  came  to  be  confider'd  which 
way  to  get  the  Cannon  to  it^  moft  were  of 
opinion  that  it  would  be  abfolutely  imprac- 
ticable, by  rcafon  of  the  vaft  Defcent ;  tho* 
I  believe  they  might  have  added  a  ftronger 
Reafon,  and  perhaps  more  intrinfick,  that  it 
was  extremely  exposed  to  the  Fire  of  the 
Enemy. 

Having  gain'd  fome  little  Reputation 
in  the  Attack  of  Monjouick,  this  Difficulty 
was  at  laft  to  be  put  upon  me  -,  and  as  fome, 

not 


[  ii|  3 

not  my  Enemies,  fuppos'd,  more  out  of 
Envy  than  good  Will.  However,  when  I 
came  to  the  Place,  and  had  carefully  taken 
a  View  of  it,  though  I  was  fenfible  enough 
of  the  Difficulty,  1  made  my  main  Objection 
as  to  the  Time  for  accomplifhing  it ;  for  it 
was  then  between  Nine  and  Ten,  and  the 
Guns  were  to  be  mounted  by  Day-light, 
Neither  could  I  at  prefent  fee  any  other 
Way  to  anfwer  their  Expe&ations,  than 
by  cafting  the  Cannon  down  the  Precipice, 
at  all  Hazards,  to  the  Place  below.,  where 
that  fourth  Battery  was  erected. 

This  wanted  not  Objections  to;  and 
therefore  to  anfwer  my  Purpofe,  as  to  point 
of  Time,  fixty  Men  more  were  order'd  me, 
as  much  as  poffible  to  facilitate  the  Work  by 
Numbers ;  and  accordingly  I  fet  about  it. 
Juft  as  I  was  fetting  all  Hands  to  work,  and 
had  given  Orders  to  my  Men  to  begin  fome 
Paces  back,  to  make  the  Defcent  more 
gradual,  and  thereby  render  the  Task  a 
little  more  feafible,  Major  Collier,  who 
commanded  the  Train,  came  to  me  ;  and 
perceiving  the  Difficulties  of  the  Under- 
taking, in  a  Fret  told  me,  I  was  impos'd 
upon  ;  and  vow'd  he  would  go  and  find  out 
Brigadier  Tetit,  and  let  him  know  the  Im- 
poffibility,  as  well  as  the  Unreafonablenefs 
of  the  Task  I  was  put  upon.  He  had  fcarce 
titter'd  thofe  Words,  and  turn'd  himfelf 
round  to  perform  his  Promife,  when  an  un- 

I  lucky 


[  11+] 

luckyShot  with  a  Musket-Ball  wounded  him 
through  the  Shoulder ;  upon  which  he  was 
carry 'd  off,  and  I  fawr  him  not  till  fome  con- 
fiderable  time  after. 

By  the  painful  Diligence,  and  the  addi- 
tional Compliment  of  Men,  however,  I  fo 
well  fucceeded  (fuch  was  my  great  good 
Fortune)  that  the  Way  was  made,  and  the 
Guns,  by  the  Help  of  Fafcines,  and  other 
lelTer  Preparations  below,  fafely  let  down 
and  mounted  ;  fo  that  that  fourth  Battery 
began  to  play  upon  the  Town  before  Break 
of  Day ;  and  with  all  the  Succefs  that  was 
proposed. 

In  fhort,  the  Breach  in  a  very  few  Days 
after  was  found  wholly  practicable;  and  all 
Things  were  got  ready  for  a  general  Storm. 
Governor  ofW hich  Don  Valafco  the  Governor  being 
Barcelona  fenfible  of,  immediately  beat  a  Parley  ;  upon 
par/ey,*^ which  it  was,  among  other  Articles,  con- 
agreesto   eluded,    that  the  Town  fliould  be  furren- 

{TZtJ  der,d  m  thrce  Days  y  and  the  better  t0  en~ 

Dap.  fure  it,  the  Baftion,  which  commanded  the 
Port  St.  Jngelo^  was  directly  put  into  our 
Pofleffion. 

Bui  before  the  Expiration  of  the  limited 
three  Days,  a  very  unexpected  Accident 
fell  out,  which  haftcn'd  the  Surrender. 
Don  Valafco,  during  his  Government,  had 
behav'd  himfelf  very  arbitrarily,  and  there- 
by procurd,  as  the  Confequence  of  it,  a  large 
Proportion  of  ill  will,  not  only  among  the 

Townf- 


C  "5l 

Townfmen,  but  among  thzMiqueiets,  who 
had,  in  their  Zeal  to  King  Charles^  flock'd 
from  all  Parts  of  Catalonia  to  the  Siege  of 
their  Capital ;  and  who,  on  the  Signing  of 
the  Articles  of  Surrender,  had  found  various 
Ways,  being  well  acquainted  with  the  moft 
private  Avenues,  to  get  by  Night  into  the 
Town  :  So  that  early  in  the  Morning  they 
began  to  plunder  all  that  they  knew  Ene- 
mies to  King  Charles,  or  thought  Friends 
to  the  Prince  his  Competitor. 

Their  main  Defign  was  upon  Valafco 
the  Governor,  whom,  if  they  could  have 
got  into  their  Hands,  it  was  not  to  be  que- 
ftion'd,  but  as  far  as  his  Life  and  Limbs 
would  have  ferv'd,  they  would  have  fuffi- 
ciently  fatiated  their  Vengeance  upon.  He 
expected  no  lefs;  and  therefore  concealed 
himfelf,  till  the  Earl  of,  Teterborow  could 
give  Orders  for  his  more  fafe  and  private 
Conveyance  by  Sea  to  Alicant. 

Nevertheless,  in  the  Town  all  was  in 
the  utmoft  Confuiion  ;  which  the  Earl  of 
Teterborow ,  at  the  very  firft  hearing, 
haften'd  to  appeafe  ;  with  his  ufual  Alacrity 
he  rid  all  alone  to  Port  St.  Angelo,  where  at 
that  time  my  felf  happen'd  to  be ;  and  de- 
manding to  be  admitted,  the  Officer  of  the 
Guard,  under  Fear  and  Surprife,  open'd  the 
Wicket,  through  which  the  Earl  entered, 
and  I  after  him. 

I  2  Scarce 


[  n6] 

Scarce  had  we  gone  a  hundred  Paces, 
when  we  faw  a  Lady  of  apparent  Quality, 
and  indifputable  Beauty,  in  a  ftrange,   but 
moft  affecting  Agony,  flying  from  the  ap- 
prehended Fury   of   the  Miqudets  j    her 
lovely  Hair  was   all    flowing    about    her 
Shoulders,   which,   and  the  Confirmation 
{lie 'was  in,  rather  added  to,  than  any  thing 
diminifli'd  from  the  Charms  of  an  Excefs 
of  Beauty.      She,    as   is   very  natural  to 
People  in  Diflrefs,  made  up  dire&ly  to  the 
Earl,  her  Eyes  fatisfying  her  he  was  a  Per- 
fon  likely  to  give  her  all  the  Prote&ion  (he 
wanted.      And  as  foon  as  ever  fhe  came 
near  enough,  in  a  Manner  that  declar'd  her 
Quality  before  fhe  fpoke,   fhe  crav'd  that 
Prote&ion,  telling  him,   the   better  to  fe- 
cure  it,  who  it  was  that  ask'd  it.     But  the 
generous  Earl  prefently  convinc'd  her,  he 
wanted   no  Intreaties,    having,    before   he 
knew  her  to  be   the  Dutchefs  of  'Popol^ 
taken  her  by  the  Hand,  in  order  to  convey 
her  through  the  Wicket  which  he  enter' d  at, 
to  a  Place  of  Safety  without  the  Town. 

I  stay'd  behind,  while  the  Earl  con- 
vey 'd  the  diftrefs'd  Dutchefs  to  her  requeued 
Jfyhtm ;  and  I  believe  it  was  much  the 
longeft  Part  of  an  Hour  before  he  return'd. 
But  as  foon  as  ever  he  came  back,  he,  and 
my  felf,  at  his  Command,  repair  d  to  the 
Place  of  moft  Confuiion,  which  the  extra- 
ordinary Noife  full  readily  directed  us  to  $ 

and 


urn 

and  which  happen 'd  to  be  on  the  Parade  be- 
fore the  Palace.  There  it  was  that  the 
Miquelets  were  making  their  utmoft  Efforts 
to  get  into  their  Hands  the  almoft  fole  Occa- 
fion  of  the  Tumult,  and  the  Objed:  of  their 
raging  Fury,  the  Perfon  of  Don  Valafco^ 
the  late  Governor. 

It  was  here  that  the  Earl  preferv'd  that 
Governor  from  the  violent,  but  perhaps  too 
juft  Refentments  of  the  Miquelets, ;  and,  as 
I  faid  before,  convey'd  him  by  Sea  to  'Ati- 
cant.  And,  indeed,  I  could  little  doubt 
the  Effedt,  or  be  any  thing  furpriz'd  at  the 
Eafinefs  of  the  Task,  when  I  faw,  that 
wherever  he  appear'd  the  popular  Fury  was 
in  a  Moment  allay'd,  and  that  every  Di- 
ctate of  that  General  was  aflented  to  with  the 
utmoft  Chearfulnefs  and  Deference.  Valafco^ 
before  his  Embarkment,  had  given  Orders, 
in  Gratitude  to  his  Preferver,  for  all  the 
Gates  to  be  deliver'd  up,  tho'  fhort  of  the 
ftipulated  Term  ,♦  and  they  were  according- 
ly fo  delivered,  and  our  Troops  took  Poffef- 
fion  fo  foon  as  ever  that  Governor  Was  a- 
board  the  Ship  that  was  to  convey  him  to 
Alicatit. 

Duiung  the  Siege  of  'Barcelona ,  Bri- 
gadier Stanhope  order'd  a  Tent  to  be  pitch'd 
as  near  the  Trenches  as  poiTibly  could  be 
with  Safety ;  where  he  not  only  entertain' d 
the  chief  Officers  who  were  upon  Duty,  but 
likewife  the  Cataknian  Gentlemen  who 
I  3  brought 


[  "8  3 

brought  Mi  que  lets  to  our  Affiftance.  I  re- 
member I  faw  an  old  Cavalier,  having  his 
only  Son  with  him,  who  appear'd  a  fine 
young  Gentleman,  about  twenty  Years  of 
Age,  go  into  the  Tent,  in  order  to  dine 
with  the  Brigadier.  But  whilft  they  were 
at  Dinner,  an  unfortunate  Shot  came  from 
the  Baftion  of  St.  Antonio,  and  intirely 
ftruck  off  the  Head  of  the  Son.  The  Fa- 
ther immediately  rofe  up,  firft  looking  down 
upon  his  headlefs  Child,  and  then  lifting  up 
his  Eyes  to  Heaven,  whilft  the  Tears  ran 
down  his  Cheeks,  he  crofs'd  himfelf,  and 
only  faid,  Fiat  voluntas  tua,  and  bore  it 
with  a  wonderful  Patience.  'Twas  a  fad 
Spectacle,  and  truly  it  affects  me  now  whilft 
1  am  writing* 

The  Eari  of  'Peterhorow,  tho'  for  fome 
time  after  the  Revolution  he  had  been  em- 
ploy 'd  in  civil  Affairs,  return'd  to  the  mili- 
tary Life  with  great  Satisfaction,  which  was 
ever  his  Inclination.  Brigadier  Stanhope,  who 
was  juftly  afterwards  created  an  Earl,  did 
well  deferve  this  Motto,  Tarn  Marte  quam 
Mercurio ;  for  truly  he  behav'd,  all  the  time 
he  continued  in  Spain,  as  if  he  had  been  in- 
fpir'd  with  Conduct ;  for  the  Victory  at  Al- 
manar  was  intirely  owing  to  him  ;  and 
likewife  at  the  Battle  of  Saragofa  he  diftin- 
guiiVd  himfelf  with  great  Bravery.  That 
he  had  not  Succefs  at  "Bruhega  was  not  his 
Fault ;  for  no  Man  can  refill  Fate  $  for  'twas 

decreed 


[  "9] 

decreed  by  Heaven  that  Philip  ffiould  re- 
main King  of  Spain,  and  Charles  to  be  Em- 
peror of  Germany.  Yet  each  of  thefe  Mo- 
narchs  have  been  ungrateful  to  the  Infiru- 
ments  which  the  Almighty  made  u&  of  to 
preferve  them  upon  their  Thrones j  for  one 
had  not  been  King  of  Spain  but  for  France  j 
and  the  other  had  not  been  Emperor  but  for 
England. 

^Barcelona,  the  chief  Place  in  Cat  alma, 
being  thus  in  our  Hands,  as  foon  as  the 
Garrifon,  little  inferior  to  our  Army,  had 
march'd  out  with  Drums  beating,  Colours 
flying,  &c.  according  to  the  Articles, 
Charles  the  Third  made  his  publick  Entry, 
and  was  proclaim'd  King,  and  received  with 
the  general  Acclamations,  and  all  other 
Demonftrations  of  Joy  fuitable  to  that  great 
Occafion. 

Some  Days  after  which,  the  Citizens, Puhf2ck 
far  from  being  fatiated  with  their  former  Rejoychgs. 
Demonftrations  of  their  Duty,  fent  a  Peti- 
tion to  the  King,  by  proper  Deputies  for 
that  Purpofe  appointed,  defining  Leave  to 
give  more  ample  Inftances  of  their  AfFe&ions 
in  a  publick  Cavalcade.  The  King  granted 
their  Requeft,  and  the  Citizens,  purfuant 
thereto,  made  their  Preparations, 

On  the  Day  appointed,  the  King,  plac'd 
in  a  Balcony  belonging  to  the  Houfe  of  the 
Earl  of  Teterborow,  appear'd  ready  to  ho- 
nour the  Show.     The  Ceremonial,  to  fpeak 
I  4  nothing 


[  I2°  ] 

nothing  figuratively,  was  very  fine  and 
grand  :  Thofe  of  the  firft  Rank  made  their 
Appearance  in  decent  Order,  and  upon  fine 
Horfes;  and  others  under  Arms,  and  in 
Companies,  march'd  with  native  Gravity 
and  Grandeur,  all  faluting  his  Majefty  as 
they  pafs'd  by,  after  the  Spanifh  Manner, 
which  that  Prince  return'd  with  the  Move- 
ment of  his  Hand  to  his  Mouth  ;  for  the 
Kings  of  Spain  are  not  allow'd  to  falute,  or 
return  a  Salute,  by  any  Motion  to,  or  of, 
the  Hat. 

After  thefe  follow'd  feveral  Pageants,- 
the  firft  of  which  was  drawn  by  Mules,  fet 
off  to  the  Height  with  ftatelieft  Feathers,  and 
adorn'd  with  little  Bells.  Upon  the  Top  of 
this  Pageant  appeard  a  Man  drefs'd  all  in 
Green  ;  but  in  the  Likenefs  of  a  Dragon. 
The  Pageant  making  a  Stop  juft  over-againft 
the  Balcony  where  the  King  fate,  the  Dra- 
gonical  Reprefentative  diverted  him  with 
great  Variety  of  Dancings,  the  Earl  of  2V 
terborow  all  the  time  throwing  out  Dollars 
by  Handfuls  among  the  Populace,  which 
they  as  conftantly  received  with  the  loud 
Acclamation  and  repeated  Cries  of  Viva, 
Viva,  Carlos  "Terceros,  Viva  la  Cafa 
d  Auftria. 

Whcn  that  had  play'd  its  Part,  another 

Pageant,  drawn  as  before,  made  a  like  full 

Stop  before  the  fame  Balcony.     On  this  was 

placed  a  very  large  Cage,  or  Aviary,  the 

1  "  Cover 


Cover  of  which,  by  Springs  contriv'd  for 
thaf  Purpofe,  immediately  flew  open,  and 
out  of  it  a  furprizing  Flight  of  Birds  of  va- 
rious Colours.  Thefe,  all  amaz'd  at  their 
fudden  Liberty,  which  I  took  to  be  the 
Emblem  intended,  hover'd  a  confiderable 
fpace  of  time  over  and  about  their  Place  of 
Freedom,  chirping,  finging,  and  otherwife 
teftifying  their  mighty  Joy  for  their  fo  un- 
expected Enlargement. 

There  were  many  other  Pageants;  but 
having  little  in  them  very  remarkable,  I 
have  forgot  the  Particulars.  Neverthelefs, 
every  one  of  them  was  difmifs'd  with  the 
like  Acclamations  of  Viva^  Viva  $  the 
Whole  concluding  with  Bonfires  and  Illu- 
minations common  on  all  fuch  Occafions, 

I  cannot  here  omit  one  very  remark- 
able Inftance  of  the  Catholick  Zeal  of  that 
Prince,  which  I  was  foon  after  an  Eye- 
witnefs  of.  I  was  at  that  time  in  the  Fruit- 
Market,  when  the  King  pafllng  by  in  his 
Coach,  the  Hoft  (whether  by  Accident  or 
Contrivance  I  cannot  fay)  was  brought,  at 
that  very  Juncture,  out  of  the  great  Church, 
in  order,  as  I  after  underftood,  to  a  poor 
fick  Woman's  receiving  the  Sacrament. 
On  Sight  of  the  Hoft  the  King  came  out  of 
his  Coach,  kneel'd  down  in  the  Street, 
which  at  that  time  prov'd  to  be  very  dirty, 
till  the  Hoft  pafs'd  by ;  then  rofe  up,  and 
taking  the  lighted  Flambeau  from  him  who 

bore 


[    !«    ] 

bore  it,  he  follow'd  the  Prieft  up  a  ftreight 
nafty  Alley,  and  there  up  a  dark  ordinary 
Pair  of  Stairs,  where  the  poor  fick  Woman 
lay.  There  he  ftay'd  till  the  whole  Cere- 
mony was  over,  when,  returning  to  the 
Door  of  the  Church,  he  very  faithfully  re- 
ftor'd  the  lighted  Flambeau  to  the  Fellow  he 
had  taken  it  from,  the  People  all  the  while 
crying  out  Viva^  Viva ;  an  Acclamation, 
we  may  imagine,  intended  to  his  Zeal,  as 
well  as  his  Perfon. 

Another  remarkable  Accident,  of  a 
much  more  moral  Nature,  I  muft,  in  juftice 
to  the  Temperance  of  that,  in  this  truly 
inimitable  People,  recite,  I  was  one  Day 
walking  in  one  ofthemoft  populous  Streets 
of  that  City,  where  I  found  an  uncommon 
Concourfe  of  People,  of  all  Sorts,  got  to- 
gether ;  and  imagining  fo  great  a  Croud 
could  not  be  aflembled  on  a  fmall  Occafion, 
I  preft  in  among  the  reft  ,-  and  after  a  good 
deal  of  Struggling  and  Difficulty,  reach'd 
into  the  Ring  and  Centre  of  that  mix'd  Mul- 
titude. But  how  did  I  blufh  ?  with  what 
Confufion  did  I  appear  ?  when  I  found  one 
of  my  own  Countrymen,  a  drunken  Grana- 
dier,  the  attraftive  Loadftone  of  all  that 
high  and  low  Mob,  and  the  Butt  of  all 
their  Merriment  ?  It  will  be  eafily  imagin'd 
to  be  a  Thing  not  a  little  furprizing  to  one 
of  our  Country,  to  find  that  a  drunken  Man 
ihould  be  fuch  a  wonderful  Sight:  How- 
i  ever, 


C  i*3  J 

ever,  the  witty  Sarcafms  that  were  then  by 
high  and  low  thrown  upon  that  fenfelefs 
Creature,  and  as  I  interpreted  Matters,  me  in 
him,  were  fo  pungent,  that  if  I  did  not  curfe 
my  Curiofity,  I  thought  it  beft  to  withdraw 
my  felf  as  faft  as  Legs  could  carry  me 
away. 

%J~RCELONJ  being  now  under  King 
Charles^  the  Towns  oiGironne^  Tarragona \ 
Tortofa>  and  Lerida^  immediately  declar'd 
for  him.  To  every  one  of  which  Enge- 
neers  being  order'd,  it  was  my  Lot  to  be 
fent  to  Tortofa.  This  Town  is  fituated  on 
the  Side  of  the  River  Ebro^  over  which 
there  is  a  fair  and  famous  Bridge  of  Boats. 
The  Waters  of  this  River  are  always  of  a 
dirty  red  Colour,  fomewhat  fouler  than  our 
Moorifh  Waters  ,-  yet  is  it  the  only  Wa-ter 
the  Inhabitants  drink,  or  covet  to  drink ; 
and  every  Houfe  providing  for  its  own  Con- 
venience Citterns  to  preferve  it  in,  by  a 
few  Hours  (landing  it  becomes  as  clear  as 
the  cleared  Rock-water,  but  as  foft  as 
Milk.  In  fhort,  for  Softnefs,  Brightnefs, 
and  Pleafantnefs  of  Tafte,  the  Natives  pre- 
fer it  to  all  the  Waters  in  the  World.  And 
I  muft  declare  in  favour  of  their  Opinion, 
that  none  ever  pleas'd  me  like  it. 

This  Town  was  of  the  greater  Moment 
to  our  Army,  as  opening  a  Paffage  into  the 
Kingdom  of  Valencia  on  one  Side,  and  the 
Kingdom  oiArragon  on  the  other :  And  be- 
ing 


C  iH  ] 

ing  of  it  felf  tolerably  defenfible,  in  human 
Appearance  might  probably  repay  a  little 
Care  and  Charge  in  its  Repair  and  Improve- 
ment. Upon  this  Employ  was  I  appointed, 
and  thus  was  I  bufy'd,  till  the  Arrival  of  the 
Earl  of  Teterborow  wTith  his  little  Army,  in 
order  to  march  to  Valencia^  the  Capital  of 
that  Province.  Here  he  left  in  Garrifon 
Colonel  Hans  Hamilton \  Regiment  ,•  the 
Place,  neverthelefr,  was  under  the  Com- 
mand of  a  Spanijh  Governor,  appointed  by 
King  Charles. 

While  the  Earl  ftay'd  a  few  Days 
at  this  Place,  under  Expe&ation  of  the 
promis'd  Succours  from  'Barcelona^  he  re- 
ceiv'd  a  Troprio  (or  Exprefs)  from  the 
King  of  Spain,  full  of  Excufes,  inftead  of 
Forces.  And  yet  the  very  fame  Letter,  in 
a  paradoxical  Manner,  commanded  him,  at 
all  Events,  to  attempt  the  Relief  of  Santo 
Mattheo?  where  Colonel  Jones  commanded, 
and  which  was  then  under  Siege  by  the 
Conde.  de  los  'Torres  (as  was  the  Report) 
with  upwards  of  three  thoufand  Men.  The 
Earl  of  Teterborow  could  not  mufter  above 
one  thoufand  Foot,  and  about  two  hundred 
Horfe  *  a  fmall  Force  to  make  an  Attempt 
of  that  Nature  upon  fuch  a  fuperior  Power  : 
Yet  the  Earl's  Vivacity  (as  will  be  occa- 
fionally  further  obferv'd  in  the  Courfe  of 
thefe  Memoirs)  never  much  regarded  Num- 
bers, fo  there  was  but  room,  by  any  Stra- 
tagem, 


[  Hi  ] 

tagem,  to  hope  for  Succefs.  True  it  is,  for 
his  greater  Encouragement  and  Confolation, 
the  fame  Letter  intimated,  that  a  great 
Concourfe  of  the  Country  People  being  up 
in  Arms,  to  the  Number  of  many  Thou- 
fands,  in  Favour  of  King  Charles,  and 
wanting  only  Officers,  the  Enterprise  would 
be  eafy,  and  unattended  with  much  Danger. 
But  upon  mature  Enquiry,  the  Earl  found 
that  great  Body  of  Men  all  inmibibus^  and 
that  the  Conde^  in  the  plain  Truth  of  the 
Matter,  was  much  ftronger  than  the  Letter 
at  firfl:  reprefented. 

SANTO  Mattheo  was  a  Place  of  known 
Importance;  and  that  from  its  Situation, 
which  cut  off  all  Communication  between 
Catalonia  and  Valencia  -y  and,  confequently, 
fhould  it  fall  into  the  Hands  of  the  Enemy, 
the  Earl's  Defign  upon  the  latter  muft  inevi- 
tably have  been  poftpon'd.  It  muft  be 
granted,  the  Commands  for  attempting  the 
Relief  of  it  were  prefling  and  peremptory  ; 
neverthelefs,  the  Earl  was  very  confcious 
to  himfelf,  that  as  the  promis'd  Reinforce- 
ments were  fufpended,  his  Officers  would 
not  approve  of  the  Attempt  upon  the  Foot 
of  fuch  vaft  Inequalities;  and  their  own  de- 
clar'd  Sentiments  foon  confirm'd  the  Di&ates 
of  the  Earl's  Reafon.  He  therefore  ad- 
dreffes  himfelf  to  thofe  Officers  in  a  different 
Manner :  He  told  'em  he  only  de/ir'd  they 
would  be  paflive,  and  leave  it  to  him  to 

work 


work  his  own  Way.  Accordingly,  the  Earl 
found  out  and  hired  two  Sfantfh  Spies,  for 
whofe  Fidelity  (as  his  great  Precaution  al- 
ways led  him  to  do)  he  took  fufficient  Se- 
curity ;  and  difpatch'd  'em  with  a  Letter  to 
Colonel  Jones,  Governor  of  the  Place,  in- 
timating his  Readinefs,  as  well  as  Ability, 
to  relieve  him  ;  and,  above  all,  exhorting 
him  to  have  the  Miquelets  in  the  Town 
ready,  on  Sight  of  his  Troops,  to  iflTue  out, 
purfue,  and  plunder ;  fince  that  would  be 
all  they  would  have  to  do,  and  all  he  would 
expeft  at  their  Hands.  The  Spies  were  dif- 
patch'd accordingly;  and,  purfuant  to  In- 
ftru&ions,  one  betray 'd  and  difcover'd  the 
other  who  had  the  Letter  in  charge  to  de- 
liver to  Colonel  Jones.  The  Earl,  to 
carry  on  the  Feint,  having  in  the  mean 
time,  by  dividing  his  Troops,  and  march- 
ing fecretly  over  the  Mountains,  drawn  his 
Men  together,  fo  as  to  make  their  Appea- 
rance on  the  Height  of  a  neighbouring 
Mountain,  little  more  than  Cannon-lhot 
Santo  from  the  Enemy's  Camp.  The  Tale  of  the 
niiriTby  Spies  was  fu^y  confirm'd,  and  the  CovJe 
the  Etf//o/ (though  an  able  General)  march'd  off  with 
Peterbo-  fome  Precipitation  with  his  Army  •  and  by 
that  Means  the  Earl's  fmaller  Number  of 
twelve  Hundred  had  Liberty  to  march  into 
the  Town  without  Interruption.  I  muft  not 
let  flip  an  A&ion  of  Colonel  Jones  s  juft  be- 
fore the   Earl's  Delivery  of  them  :    The 

Condey 


C   i*7  ] 

Conde^  for  want  of  Artillery,  had  fet  his 
Miners  to  work ;  and  the  Colonel,  finding 
they  had  made  fome  dangerous  Advances, 
turned  the  Courfe  of  a  Rivulet,  that  raa 
through  the  Middle  of  the  Town,  in  upon 
them,  and  made  them  quit  a  Work  they 
thought  was  brought  to  Perfe&ion. 

SJNTO  Mattheo  being  reliev'd,  as  I 
have  faid,  the  Earl,  though  he  had  fo  far 
gain'd  his  Ends,  left  not  the  flying  Enemy 
without  a  Feint  of  Purfuit ;  with  fuch  Cau- 
tion, neverthelefs,  that  in  cafe  they  fhould 
happen  to  be  better  inform'd  of  hi£  Weak- 
nefs,  he  might  have  a  Refource  either  back 
again  to  Sante  Mattheo^  or  to  Vinaros  on 
the  Sea-fide  ,•  or  fome  other  Place,  as  occa- 
fion  might  require.  But  having  juft  before 
receiv'd  frefh  Advice,  that  the  Reinforce- 
ments he  expe&ed  were  anew  counter- 
manded ,•  and  that  the  Duke  of  Anpu  had 
increas'd  his  Troops  to  twelve  thoufand 
Men ;  the  Officers,  not  enough  elated  with 
the  laft  Succefs  to  adventure  upon  new  Ex- 
periments, refolv'd,  in  a  Council  of  War, 
to  advife  the  Earl,  who  had  juft  before  re- 
reiv'd  a  difcretionary  Commiifion  in  lieu  of 
Troops,  fo  to  poft  the  Forces  under  him, 
as  not  to  be  cut  off  from  being  able  to  a  (Tift 
the  King  in  Perfon;  or  to  march  to  the  De- 
fence of  Catalonia^  in  cafe  of  Neceffity. 

Pursuant    to    this  Refolution   of  the 
Council  of  War5  the  Earl  of  TeterborozVy 

tho 


[  «a8] 

tho'  ftill  intent  upon  his  Expedition  into* 
Valencia  (which  had  been  afrefli  com- 
manded ,  even  while  his  Supplies  were 
countermanded)  orders  his  Foot,  in  a  truly 
bad  Condition,  by  tedious  Marches  Day  and 
Night  over  the  Mountains,  to  Vinaros ;  and 
with  his  two  hundred  Horfe,  fet  out  to  pro- 
fecute  his  pretended  Defign  of  purfuing  the 
flying  Enemy ;  refolv'd,  if  poflible,  not- 
withstanding all  feemingly  defperate  Cir- 
cumftances,  to  perfect  the  Security  of  that 
Capital. 

To  that  Purpofe,  the  Earl,  with  his  fmall 
Body  of  Patrolers,  went  on  frightning  the 
Enemy,  till  they  came  under  the  Walls  of 
NuleS)  a  Town  fortify 'd  with  the  beft 
Walls,  regular  Towers,  and  in  the  beft  Re- 
pair of  any  in  that  Kingdom.  But  even 
here,  upon  the  Appearance  of  the  Earl's 
Forlorn  (if  they  might  not  properly  at  that 
time  all  have  pafs'd  under  that  Character) 
under  the  fame  Panick  they  left  that  fenfible 
Town,  with  only  one  Thoufand  of  the 
Town's  People,  well  arm'd,  for  the  Defence 
of  it.  Yet  was  it  fcarce  to  be  imagin'd,  that 
the  Earl,  with  his  fmall  Body  of  two  hun- 
dred Horfe,  fhould  be  able  to  gain  Admif- 
flon  y  or,  indeed,  under  fuch  Circumftances, 
to  attempt  it.  But  bold  as  the  Undertaking 
was,  his  good  Genius  wTent  along  with  him ; 
and  fo  good  a  Genius  was  it,  that  it  rarely 
left  him  without  a  good  Effect    He  had 

keen 


[  I39  1 

been  told  the  Day  before,  that  the  Enemy5 
on  leaving  Nules,  had  got  Poffeflion  of 'Villa 
Real,  where  they  put  all  to  the  Sword, 
What  would  have  furnifVd  another  with 
Terror,  infpir'd  hisLordfliip  with  aThought 
as  fortunate  as  it  was  fuccefsfuL  The  Earl 
rides  up  to  the  very  Gates  of  the  Town,  at 
the  Head  of  his  Party,  and  peremptorily  de- 
mands the  chief  Magiftrate,  or  a  Frieft,  im- 
mediately to  be  fent  out  to  him ;  and  that  un- 
der Penalty  of  being  all  put  to  the  Sword, 
and  us'd  as  the  Enemy  had  us'd  thofe  at 
Villa-Real  the  Day  or  two  before.  The 
Troops,  that  had  fo  lately  left  the  Place,  had 
left  behind 'emmoreTerrorthan  Men;  which^ 
together  with  the  peremptory  Demand  of 
the  Earl,  fbon  produc  d  fome  Priefts  to  wrait 
upon  the  General.  By  their  Readinefs  to 
obey,  the  Earl  very  juftly  imagin'd  Fear  to 
be  the  Motive ;  wherefore,  to  improve  their 
Terror,  he  only  allowed  them  fix  Minutes 
time  to  refolve  upon  a  Surrender,  telling 
them,  that  otherwife,  fo  foon  as  his  Artillery 
was  come  up,  he  would  lay  them  under  the 
utmoft  Extremities.  The  Friefh  return'd 
with  this  melancholy  Meffage  into  the  Place  ; 
and  in  a  very  fliort  time  after  the  Gates Nuies/^- 
Were  thrown  open.  Upon  the  Earl's  En-'^L?/^ 
trance  he  found  two  hundred  Horfe,  which  Peterbo- 
werethe  Original  of  his  Lordfliip's  formingrow' 
that  Body  of  Horfe,  which  afterwards  prov'd 
the  faving  of  Valencia, 

K  The 


[  130  ] 

The  News  of  the  taking  of  Nules  foon 
overtook  the  flying   Enemy-    and  fo  in- 
creas'd  the  Apprehenfions  of  their  Danger, 
that  they  renew'd   their  March  the  fame 
Day \  though  what  they  had  taken  before 
would   have    fatisfy'd    them  much  better 
without  it.     On  the  other  hand,    the  Earl 
was  fo  well  pleas'd  with  his  Suceefs,  that 
leaving  the  Enemy  to  fly  before  their  Fears, 
he  made  a  flhort  Turn  towards  Caflillon  de 
la  Tlctna^  a  confiderable,  but  open  Town, 
where  his  Lordfhip  furnifli'd  himfelf  with 
four  hundred  Horfes  more  $  and  all  this  un- 
der the    Affurance   that   his  Troops  were 
driving  the  Enemy  before  them  out  of  the 
Kingdom.     Hence  he  fent  Orders  to  Colo- 
nel ^Pierces  Regiment  at  Vinaros  to  meet 
him  at  Orcpefa,  a  Place  at  no  great  Di- 
ftance  -y  where,  when  they  came,  they  were 
very  pleafingly  furprizd  at  their  being  well 
•mounted,  and  furnifh'd  with  all  Accoutre- 
ments neceifary.     After  which,  leaving  'em 
canton'd  in  wall'd  Towns,  where  they  could 
not  be  difturb'd  without  Artillery,  that  inde- 
fatigable General,  leaving  them  full  Orders, 
went  on  his  way  towards  Tortofa. 

At  Vinaros  the  Earl  met  with  Advice, 
that  the  Spanijh  Militia  of  the  Kingdom  of 
Valencia  were  affembled,  and  had  already 
advanced  a  Day's  March  at  leaft  into  that 
Country.  Upon  which,  colle&ing,  as  fafl 
as  he  could,  the  whole  Corps  together,  the 

Earl 


rd 


c  *y  ] 

Earl  refolv'd  to  penetrate  into  Valencia. 
directly ;  notwithstanding  this  whole  col- 
lected Body  would  amount  to  no  more  than 
fix  hundred  Horfe  and  twothoufand  Foot. 

But  there  was  a  ftrong  Pafs  over  a  River, 
juft  under  the  Walls  of  Mohiedroy  which 
mult  be  firfl  difputed  and  taken.  This  Bri- 
gadier Mahoni,  by  the  Orders  of  the  Duke 
of  Arcos^  who  commanded  the  Troops  of 
the  Duke  of  Jnjou  in  the  Kingdom  of  Va- 
lencia*, had  taken  care  to  fecure.  Mofoie-Mohkd 
dro,  though  not  very  ftrong,  is  a  walFd*^*'* 
Town,  very  populous  of  it  felf;  and  had  in 
it,  befides  a  Garrifon  of  eight  hundred  Men, 
moil  of  Mahoms  Dragoons.  It  lies  at  the 
very  Bottom  of  a  high  Bill ;  on  the  upper 
Part  whereof  they  ftiew  the  Ruins  of  the 
once  famous  Saguntum-  famous  fure  toSaguntum 
Eternity,  if  Letters  (hall  laft  fo  long,  for  an 
inviolable  Fidelity  to  a  negligent  Confede-  ^ 
rate,  againft  an  implacable  Enemy.  Here  yet 
appear  the  vifible  Veftigia  of  awful  Anti- 
quity, in  half  ftanding  Arches,  and  the  yet 
unleveird  Walls  and  Towers  of  that  once 
celebrated  City.  I  could  not  but  look  upon 
all  thefe  with  the  Eyes  of  Defpight,  in  re- 
gard to  their  Enemy  Hannibal ;  with  thofe 
of  Difdain,  in  refpe<?c  to  the  uncommon  and 
Unaccountable  Supinenefs'of  its  Confederates^ 
the  Remans  ;  but  with  thofe  of  Veneration, 
as  to  the  Memory  of  a  glorious  People,  who 
rather  than  ftand  reproached  with  a  Breach 

K  2  of 


[  »3a  ] 

of  Faith,  or  the  Brand  of  Cowardice, 
chofe  to  facrifice  themfelves,  their  Wives, 
Children,  and  all  that  was  dear  to  them,  in 
the  Flames  of  their  expiring  City. 

In  Mohiedro^  as  I  faid  before,  Mahoni 
commanded,  with  eight  hundred  Men,  be- 
sides Inhabitants ,-  which,  together  with  our 
having  but  little  Artillery,  indued  the 
Officers  under  the  Earl  of  Peterborow 
reafonably  enough  to  imagine  and  declare, 
that  there  could  be  no  vifible  Appearance  of 
furmounting  fuch  Difficulties*  The  Earl, 
nevertheless,  inftead  of  indulging  fuch  De- 
pendencies, gave  them  Hope,  that  what 
Strength  ferv'dnot  to  accomplifh,  Art  might 
poflibly  obtain.  To  that  Purpofe  he  pro- 
pofed  an  Interview  between  himfelf  and 
Mahoni;  and  accordingly  fent  an  Officer 
with  a  Trumpet  to  intimate  his  Defire.  The 
Motion  was  agreed  to ;  and  the  Earl  having 
previoufly  ftation'd  his  Troops  to  advantage, 
and  his  little  Artillery  at  a  convenient  Di- 
ftance,  with  Orders  they  fhould  appear  on 
a  flow  March  on  the  Side  of  a  riling  Hill, 
during  the  time  of  Conference,  went  to  the 
Place  appointed ;  only,  as  had  been  ftipu- 
lated,  attended  with  a  fmall  Party  of  Horfe. 
When  they  were  met,  the  Earl  firft  offer'd 
all  he  could  to  engage  Mahoni  to  the  In- 
tereft  of  King  Charles;  propofing  fome 
Things  extravagant  enough  (as  Mahoni 
himfelf  fome  time  after  told  me)  to  ftagger 

the 


[  *?3  ] 

the  Faith  of  a  Catholick  ;  but  all  to  little 
Purpofe :  Mahoni  was  inflexible,  which 
oblig'd  the  Earl  to  new  Meafures. 

Whereupon  the  Earl  frankly  told  him, 
that  he  could  not  however  but  efteem  the 
Confidence  he  had  put  in  him  ;  and  there- 
fore, to  make  fome  Retaliation,  he  was 
ready  to  put  it  in  his  Power  to  avoid  the 
Barbarities  lately  executed  at  Villa-Real. 
My  Relation  to  you,  continued  the  Gene- 
ral, inclines  me  to  fpare  a  Town  under 
your  Command.  You  fee  how  near  my 
Forces  are ;  and  can  hardly  doubt  our 
foon  being  Matters  of  the  Place :  What 
:  I  would  therefore  offer  you,  faid  the 
"  Earl,  is  a  Capitulation,  that  my  Inch- 
<c  nation  may  be  held  in  Countenance  by 
cc  my  Honour.  Barbarities,  however  juftified. 
"  by  Example,  are  my  utter  Averfion,  and 
cc  againft  my  Nature  •  and  to  teftify  fo  much3 
cc  together  with  my  good  Will  to  your  Per- 
"  fon,  was  the  main  Intent  of  this  Interview.'9 
This  Franknefs  fo  far  prevaii'd  on  Ma- 
honi,  that  he  agreed  to  return  an  Anfwer  in 
half  an  Hour.  Accordingly,  an  Anfwer 
was  return'd  by  a  Spanijh  Officer,  and  a  Ca- 
pitulation agreed  upon ;  the  Earl  at  the  fame 
time  endeavouring  to  bring  over  that  Officer 
to  King  Charles,  on  much  the  fame  Topicks 
he  us'd  with  Mahoni.  But  finding  this 
equally  fruitlefs,  whether  it  was  that  he 
tacitly  reproach'd  the  Officer  with  a  Want 

K  3  of 


[  *34  ] 

of  Confederation  in  neglecting  to  follow  the 
Example  of  his  Commander,  or  what  elfe, 
he  created  in  that  Officer  fuch  a  Jealoufy  of 
MabfM.)  "hat  was  afterward  very  feryice- 
abje  to  him  in  his  further  Defign. 

To  forward  which  to  a  good  Iffue3  the 
Sari  immediately  made  choice  of  two  Dra- 
goons., who,  upon  promife  of  Promotion  5 
undertook  to  go  as  Spies  to  the  Duke  of 
JrcGs,  whofe  Forces  lay  not  far  off,  on  the 
other  Side  a  large  Plain,  which  the  Earl 
muft  unavoidably  pafs,  and  which  would 
inevitably  be  attended  with  almoft  infuper-- 
able  Dangers,  if  there  attack'd  by  a  Force 
fo  much  fuperior.  Thofe  Spies,  according 
to  Inilru&ions,  were  to  difcover  to  the 
Duke,  that  they  over-heard  the  Conference 
between  the  Earl  and  Mahoni  ;  and  at  the 
fame  time  faw  a  confiderable  Number  of 
Piftoles  deliver'd  into  Mabcnfs  Hands, 
large  Promifes  paffing  at  that  Inftant  reci- 
procally :  But  above  all,  that  the  Earl  had 
recommended  to  him  the  procuring  the 
March  of  the  Duke  oyer  the  Plain  between 
them,  The  Spies  went  and  deliver'd  all  ac- 
cording to  Concert ;  concluding,  before  the 
puke,  that  they  would  ask  no  Reward^ 
but  undergo  any  Puniihment,  if  Mahoni  did 
not  very  foon  fend  to  the  Duke  a  Requefl 
to  march  over  the  Plain,  in  order  to  put 
the  concerted  Plot  in  execution.  It  was, 
set  Jong  afkr  this  pretended  Difcovery  be- 
fore 


[  '35  1 

fore  Mahoni  did  fend  indeed  an  Officer  to 
the  Duke,  defiring  the  March  of  his  Forces 
over  the  Plain  ,•  but,  in  reality,  to  obftrud 
the  Earl's  Paflage,    which  he  knew  very- 
well  muft  be  that  and  no  other  way.    How- 
ever, the  Duke  being  prepoffefs'd  by  the 
Spies,  and  what  thofe  Spanijh  Officers  that  at 
firft  efcap'd  had  before  infus'd,  took  Things 
in  their  Senfe  $  and  as  foon  as  Mahoni,  who 
was  forc'd  to  make  the  beft  of  his  way  over 
the  Plain  before  the  Earl  of  Teterborow, 
arriv'd  at  his  Camp ,    he  was  put  under 
Arreft  and  fent  to  Madrid.     The  Duke 
having  thus  imbib'd  the  Venom,  and  taken 
the  Alarm,  immediately  decamp'd  in  Con- 
fufion,  and  took  a  different  Rout  than  at  firft 
he  intended ;    leaving  that  once  formidable 
Plain  open  to  the  Earl,  without  an  Enemy 
to  obftraft  him.     In  fome  little  time  after  he 
arriv'd  at  Madrid,  Mahoni  made  his  Inno- 
cence appear,  and  was  created  a  General  ; 
while  the  Duke  of  Arcos  was  recall'd  from 
his  Poft  of  Honour. 

The  Day  after  we  arriv'd  at  Valencia, The  Barfs 
the  Gates  of  which  fine  City  were  fet  open^j* 
to  us  with  the  higheft  Demonftrations  ofvaienda, 
Joy.     I  call'd  it  a  fine  City ,-    but  fare  it 
richly  deferves  a  brighter  Epithet,  fince  it  is 
a  common  Saying  among  the   Spaniards, 
that  the  Pleafures  of  Valencia  would  make 
a  Jew  forget  Jeritfakm.     It  is  moft  fweetly 
fituated  in  a  very  beautiful  Plain,  and  with- 

K  4.  m 


in  half  a  League  of  the  Mediterranean  Sea; 
It  never  wants  any  of  the  Fragrancies  of 
Nature,  and  always  has  fomething  to  de- 
light the  moft  curious  Eye.  It  is  famous  to 
a  Proverb ,  for  fine  Women ;  but  as  infa- 
mous, and  only  in  that  fo,  for  the  Race  of 
Bravoes,  the  common  Companions  of  the 
Ladies  of  Pleafure  in  this  Country.  Thefe 
Wretches  are  fo  Cafe-hardened,  they  will 
commit  a  Murder  for  a  Dollar,  tho'  they 
run  their  Country  for  it  when  they  have 
done.  Not  that  other  Parts  of  this  Nation 
are  uninfefted  with  this  fort  of  Animals ;  but 
here  their  Numbers  are  fo  great*  that  if  a 
Catalogue  was  to  be  taken  of  thofe  in  o- 
ther  Parts  of  that  Country,  perhaps  nine  in 
ten  would  be  found  by  Birth  to  be  of  this 
Province. 

But  to  proceed,  tho'  the  Citizens^  and 
all  Sorts  of  People,  were  redundant  in  their 
various  ExprelTions  of  Joy3  for  an  Entry  fo 
furprizing,  and  utterly  loft  to  their  Expecta- 
tion., whatever  it  was  to  their  Wifhes,  the 
Earl  had  a  fecret  Concern  for  the  Publick, 
Which  lay  gnawing  at  his  Heart,  and  which 
yet  he  was  forced  to  conceal.  He  knew  that 
fee  had  not  four  thoufand  Soldiers  in  the  Place, 
and  not  Powder  or  Ammunition  for  thofe  / 
nor  any  Provifions  lay'd  in  for  any  thing 
lik?  a  Siege.  On  the  other  Hand,  the  E- 
nemy  without  were  upwards  of  feven  Thou- 
fand3  with  a  Body  of  four  Thoufand  more3 

2  not 


C  137  D 

not  fifteen  Leagues  off,  on  their  March  to 
join  them.  Add  to  this,  the  Marefchal  de 
*Ibej[e  was  no  farther  off  than  Madrid,  a 
very  few  Days  March  from  Valencia*,  a 
fliort  Way  indeed  for  the  Earl  (who,  as 
was  faid  before,  was  wholly  unprovided  for 
a  Siege,  which  was  reported  to  be  the  fole 
End  of  the  Marefchal's  moving  that  Way.) 
But  the  Earl's  never-failing  Genius  refolv'd 
again  to  attempt  that  by  Art,  which  the 
Strength  of  his  Forces  utterly  difallow'd 
him.  And  in  the  firft  Place,  his  Intelli- 
gence telling  him  that  fixteen  twenty-four 
Pounders,  with  Stores  and  Ammunition 
anfwerable  for  a  Siege,  were  ihip'd  off  for 
the  Enemy's  Service  at  Alicantx  the  Earl 
forthwith  lays  a  Defign,  and  with  his  ufual 
Succefs  intercepts  'em  all,  fupplying  that 
way  his  own  Neceflities  at  the  Expence  of 
the  Enemy. 

The  four  thoufand  Men  ready  to  rein- 
force the  Troops  nearer  Valencia,  were  the 
next  Point  to  be  undertaken ;  but  hie  labor* 
hoc  opus ;  fince  the  greater  Body  under  the 
Conde  de  las  Torres  (who,  with  Mahoni% 
was  now  reinftated  in  his  Poft)  lay  between 
the  Earl  and  thofe  Troops  intended  to  be 
difpers'd.  And  what  inhaunc d  the  Diffi- 
culty, the  River  Xucar  muft  be  pafs'd  in  al- 
moft  the  Face  of  the  Enemy,  Great  Dis- 
advantages as  thefe  were,  they  did  not  dis- 
courage the  Earh     He  detach'd  by  Night 

four 


f  '?8  ] 

four  hundred  Horfe  and  eight  hundred  Foof^ 

who  march'd  with  fuch  hafty  Silence3  that 

'A final    they  furpnz'd  that  great  Body,  routed  'em, 

-fatty  of ^   an(]  brought  into  Valencia  fix  hundred  Pri- 

toltTf' 'foners  very  fafely,    notwithftanding  they 

sody  of     w7ere  oblig'd,  under  the  fame  Night-Covert, 

f°fu*Jhm~  to  pafs  very  near  a  Body  of  three  Thoufand 

of  the  Enemy's  Horfe.     Sueh  a  prodigious 

Victory  would  hardly  have  gain'd  Credit  in 

that  City,  if  the  Prifoners  brought  in  had 

not  been  living  WitnefTes  of  the  Action  as 

well  as  the  Triumph.     The  Conde  de  las 

Torres^  upon  thefe   two  military  Rebuffs, 

drew  off  to  a  more,  convenient  Diftance, 

and  left  the  Earl  a  little  more  at  eafe  in  his 

new  Quarters. 

Here  the  Earl  of  Tcterhorow  made  his 
Refidence  for  fome  time.  He  was  extream- 
ly  well  belov'd ;  his  affable  Behaviour  ex- 
acted as  much  from  all  ,•  and  he  preferv'd 
fuch  a  good  Correfppndence  with  the 
Priefts  and  the  Ladies,  that  he  never  fail'd 
of  the  mod  early  and  beft  Intelligence,  a 
thing  by  no  means  to  be  flighted  in  the 
common  Courfe  of  Life  ;  but  much  more 
commendable  and  neceffary  in  a  General, 
with  fo  fmall  an  Army,  at  opea  War,  and; 
in  the  Heart  of  his  Enemy's  Country. 
The  Earl,  by  this  Means,-  fomc  fmall  time 
-  after,  receiving  early  Intelligence  that  King 
Thilip  was  actually  on  his  March  to  Har- 
cehnct)  \yith  an  Army  of  up  wards  of  twenty 

five 


C  i39  J 

five  thoufand  Men,  under  the  Command  of 
a  Marefchal  of  France,  began  his  March  to- 
wards Catalonia,  with  all  the  Troops  that 
he  could  gather  together,  leaving  in  Va- 
lencia a  fmall  Body  of  Foot,  fuch  as  in  that 
"Exigence  could  bell:  be  fpar'd.    The  whole 
Body  thus  colle&ed  made  very  little  more 
than  two  thoufand  Foot  and  fix  hundred 
Horfe  -,    yet  refolutely  with  thefe  he  fets 
out  for  ^Barcelona  :   In  the  Neighbourhood 
of  which,  as   foon  as  he  arriv'd,  he  took 
care  to  poft  himfelf  and  his  diminutive  Army 
in  the  Mountains  which  inviron  that  City ; 
where  he  not  only  fecur'd  'em  againft  the 
Enemy  ;  but  found  himfelf  in  a  Capacity  of 
putting  him  under  perpetual  Alarms.     Nor 
was  the  Marefchal,  with  his  great  Army, 
capable  of  returning  the  Earl's  Compliment 
of  Difturbance  $  fince  he  himfelf,  every  fix 
or  eight  Hours,  put  his  Troops  into  fuch  a 
varying  Situation,  that  always  when  moil 
arduoufly  fought,  he  was  fartheft  off  from 
being  found.     In  this  Manner  the  General 
bitterly  harrafs'd  the  Troops  of  the  Enemy  ;. 
and  by  thefe  Means  ftruck  a  perpetual  Ter- 
ror into  the  Befiegers.     Nor  did  he  only 
this  way  annoy  the  Enemy  ,•  the  Precautions 
he  had  us'd,  and  the  Meafures  he  had  taken 
in  other  Places,  with  a   View  to  prevent 
their  Return  to  Madrid,  though  the  Invi- 
dious endeavour'd  to  bury  them  m  Oblivion, 
Baying  equally  contributed  to  the  driving 


oi 


C  ho  3 

of  the  Marefchal  of  France,  and  his  Catho- 
lick  King,  out  of  the  Spanifh  Dominions. 

But   to  go  on  with  the  Siege  :    The 
Breaches  in  the  Walls  of  that  City,  during 
its  Siege  by  the  Earl,  had  been  put  into 
tolerable  Repair ;    but  thole  of  Monjouick% 
on  the  contrary,  had  been  as  much  neglect- 
ed.     However,    the  Garrifon   made  fhift 
to  hold  out  a  Battery  of  twenty-three  Days, 
with  no  lefs  than  fifty  Pieces  of  Cannon  $ 
when,  after  a  Lofs  of  the  Enemy  of  upwards 
of  three  thoufand  Men    (a  Moiety  of  the 
Army  employ 'd  againft  it  when  the  Earl 
Monjouicktook  it)  they  were  forc'd  to  furrender  at 
taken  by    Difcretion.     And  this  cannot  but  merit  our 
dfa?cff~  Obfervation ,    that    a   Place,    which    the 
France.    EngUfh  General  took  in  little  more  than  an 
Hour,  and  with  very  inconfiderable  Lofs, 
afforded  the  Marefchal  of  France  a  Refi- 
nance of  twenty-three  Days. 
Barcelona     Upon  the  taking  of  Fort  Monjouick,  the 
hpegd.    Marefchal  de  Thefs  gave  immediate  Orders 
for  Batteries  to  be  rais'd  againft  the  Town. 
Thofe  Orders  were  put  in  Execution  with 
all  Expedition  $  and  at  the  fame  time  his 
Army  fortify 'd  themfelves  with  fuch  En- 
trenchments, as  would  have  ruin'd  the  Earl's 
former  little  x^rmy  to  have  rais'd,  or  his  pre- 
fent  much  lelTer  Army  to  have  attempted  the 
forcing  them.     However,  they  Efficiently 
demonstrated  their  Apprehenlions  of  that 
watchful  General,  who  lay  hovering  over 

their 


[  Hi  ] 

their  Heads  upon  the  Mountains.  Their 
main  Effort  was  to  make  a  Breach  between 
Port  St.  Antonio  and  that  Breach  which  our 
Forces  had  made  the  Year  before  j  to  effed 
which  they  took  care  to  ply  them  very  di- 
ligently both  from  Cannon  and  Mortars  $ 
and  in  fome  few  Days  their  Application  was 
anfwer'd  with  a  pradicable  Breach  for  a 
Storm.  Which  however  was  prudently 
deferred  for  fome  time,  and  that  thro'  fear  of 
the  Earl's  falling  on  the  Back  of  them 
whenever  they  fhould  attempt  it  ,•  which, 
confequently,  they  were  fenfible  might  put 
them  into  fome  dangerous  Diforder. 

And  now  it  was  that  the  Earl  oiTeter- 
horow  refolv'd  to  put  in  pra&ice  the  Refo- 
lution  he  had  fome  time  before  concerted 
within  himfelf.  About  nine  or  ten  Days  be- 
fore theRaifing  of  the  Siege,  he  had  receiv'd 
an  Exprefs  from  Brigadier  Stanhope  (who 
was  aboard  Sir  John  Leake's  Fleet  appoint- 
ed for  the  Relief  of  the  Place,  with  the 
Reinforcements  from  'England)  acquainting 
the  Earl,  that  he  had  us'd  all  poflible  En- 
deavours to  prevail  on  the  Admiral  to  make 
the  beft  of  his  way  to  "Barcelona.  But  that 
the  Admiral^  however,  perfifted  in  a  posi- 
tive Refolution  not  to  attempt  the  French 
Fleet  before  that  Place  under  the  Count  de 
Tholotife,  till  the  Ships  were  join'd  him 
which  were  expected  from  Ireland,  under 
the  Command  of  Sir  George  jBing.     True 

it 


t  H2 1 

it  was5  the  Fleet  under  Admiral  Leake  was 
of  equal  Strength  with  that  under  the 
Trench  Admiral  $  but  jealous  of  the  Infor- 
mations he  had  receiv'd,  and  too  ready  to 
conclude  that  People  in  Diftrefs  were  apt  to 
make  Reprefentations  too  much  in  their 
own  Favour ;  he  held  himielf,  in  point  of 
Difcretion,  oblig'd  not  to  hazard  the 
Queen's  Ships,  when  a  Reinforcement  of 
both  cleaner  and  larger  were  under  daily 
Expectation. 

This  unhappy  Circumftance  (notwith- 
ftanding  all  former  glorious  Deliverances) 
had  almoft  brought  the  Earl  to  the  Brink 
of  Defpair  ,•  and  to  increafe  it3  the  Earl 
every  Day  receiv'd  fuch  Commands  from 
the  King  within  the  Hace3  as  muft  have  fa- 
crificed  his  few  Forces,  without  the  leaft 
Probability  of  fucceeding.  Thofe  all  tended 
to  his  forcing  his  Way  into  the  Town- 
when,  in  all  human  Appearance,  not  one 
Man  of  all  that  fhould  make  the  Attempt 
could  have  done  it3  with  any  Hope  or  Pro- 
fpeft  of  furviving.  The  French  were  ftrong- 
ly  encamp'd  at  the  Foot  of  the  Mountains, 
diftant  two  Miles  from  "Barcelona ;  towards 
the  Bottom  of  thofe  Hills,  the  Avenues  into 
the  Plain  were  poffefs'd  and  fortify 'd  by 
great  Detachments  from  the  Enemy's  Army. 
From  all  which  it  will  be  evident,  that  no 
Attempt  could  be  made  without  giving  the 
Enemy  time  to  draw  together  what  Body 

of 


[  Hi  3 

of  Foot  they  pleas'cL  Or  fuppo/ing  it  fea- 
fible,  under  all  thefe  difficult  Circumftances, 
for  fome  of  them  to  have  forc'd  their  Paf- 
fage,  the  Remainder,  that  fhould  have  been 
fo  lucky  to  have  efcap'd  their  Foot,  would 
have  found  themfelves  expos'd  in  open  Field 
to  a  Purfuit  of  four  thoufand  Horfe  and 
Dragoons  ;  and  that  for  two  Miles  to- 
gether ;  wThen  in  cafe  of  their  inclofing 
them,  the  braveft  Troops  in  the  World,  un- 
der fuch  a  Situation,  w7ould  have  found  it 
their  beft  way  to  have  furrender'd  them- 
felves Prifoners  of  War, 

Nevertheless,  when  Brigadier  Stan- 
hope fent  that  Exprefs  to  the  Earl,  which  I 
juft  now  mention'd,  he  affur'd  him  in  the 
fame,  that  he  would  ufe  his  utmoft  Dili- 
gence, both  by  Sea  and  Land,  to  let  him 
have  timely  Notice  of  the  Conjunction  of  the 
Fleets,  which  was  now  all  they  had  to  de- 
pend upon.  Adding  withal,  that  if  the 
Earl  fhould  at  any  time  receive  a  Letter, 
or  Paper,  though  directed  to  no  Body,  and 
with  nothing  in  it,  but  a  half  Sheet  of  Paper 
cut  in  the  Middle,  he,  the  Earl,  might  cer- 
tainly depend  upon  it,  that  the  two  Fleets 
were  join'd,  and  making  the  beft  of  their 
Way  for  ^Barcelona.  It  will  eafily  be  ima- 
gin'd  the  Exprefs  was  to  be  well  paid ;  and 
being  made  fenfible  that  he  ran  little  or  no 
Hazard  in  carrying  a  Piece  of  blank  Paper, 
he  undertook  it,  and  as  fortunately  arriv'd 

with 


C  H4-  ] 

with  it  to  the  Earl,  at  a  Moment  wheii 
Chagrin  and  Defpair  might  have  hurry'd 
him  to  fome  Resolution  that  might  have 
proved  Fatal.  The  Meflenger  himfelf,  how- 
ever, knew  nothing  of  the  Joining  of  the 
Fleets,  or  the  Meaning  of  his  Meflage. 

As  foon  as  the  Earl  of  Teterborow  re- 
ceived this  welcome  Meflage  from  Brigadier 
Stanhope,  he  march'd  the  very  fame  Night, 
with  his  whole  little  Body  of  Forces,  to  a 
Town  on  the  Sea-Shore,  calf  d  Sigeth.  No 
Perfon  guefs'd  the  Reafon  of  his  March,  or 
knew  any  thing  of  what  the  Intent  of  it  was* 
The  Officers,  as  formerly,  obey'd  without 
Enquiry ;  for  they  were  led  to  it  by  fo 
many  unaccountable  Varieties  of  Succefs, 
that  Affiance  became  a  fecond  Nature,  both 
In  Officer  and  Soldier. 

The  Town  of  Sigeth  was  about  feven 
Leagues  to  the  Weftward  of  "Barcelona  $ 
where,  as  foon  as  the  Earl  with  his  Forces 
arriv'd,  he  took  care  to  fecure  all  the  fmall 
Fiftiing-  Boats,  Feluccas,  and  Sattees  ;  nay, 
in  a  Word,  every  Machine  in  which  he 
could  tranfport  any  of  his  Men  :  So  that  in 
two  Days  time  he  had  got  together  a  Num- 
ber fufficient  for  the  Conveyance  of  all  his 
Foot. 

But  a  Day  or  two  before  the  Arrival  of 
the  Englifi  Fleet  off  Sigeth,  the  Officers  of 
his  Troops  were  under  a  ftrange  Confterna- 
tion  at  a  Refolution  their  General  had  taken. 

Impa« 


C  145  ] 

Impatient  of  Delay,  and  fearful  of  the  Fleets 
palling  by  without  his  Knowledge,  the  Earl 
fummon'd  them  together  a  little  before  Nighty 
at  which  time  he  difcover'd  to  the  wThole 
Affembly,  that  he  himfelf  was  oblig'd  to 
endeavour  to  get  aboard  the  EngUJh  Fleet ; 
and  that,    if  poflible,   before  the  French 
Scouts  fhould  be  able  to  make  any  Difco- 
very  of  their  Strength  :   That  finding  him- 
felf of  no  further  Ufe  on  Shore,  having  al- 
ready taken  the  necelTary  Precautions  for 
their  Tranfportation  and  Security,  they  had 
nothing  to  do  but  to  purfue  his  Orders,  and 
make  the  belt  of  their  Way  to  'Barcelona, 
in  the  Veffels  which  he  had  provided  for 
them :  That  they  might  do  this  in  perfect 
Security  when  they  faw  the  EngliJJj  Fleet 
pafs  by ;  or  if  they  fhould  pafs  by  in  the 
Night,   an  Engagement  with  the  French, 
which  would  be  an  inevitable  Confequence, 
Would  give  them  fufficient  Notice  what  they( 
had  to  do  further* 

This  Declaration,  inftead  of  fatisfying, 
made  the  Officers  ten  times  more  curious : 
But  when  they  faw  their  General  going 
with  a  Refolution  to  lie  out  all  Night  at 
Sea,  in  an  open  Boat3  attended  with  only 
one  Officer  $  and  underftood  that  he  in- 
tended to  row  out  in  his  Felucca  five  or  fix 
Leagues  diftance  from  the  Shore  •  it  is  hardly 
to  be  exprefs'd  what  Amazement  and  Con- 
cern furprizd  them  all.  Mr.  Crow^  the 
L  Queen's 


[  i46  ] 

Queen's  Minifter,and  others,  exprefs'd  a  par- 
ticular Diflike  and  Uneafinefs ;  but  all  to  no 
purpofe,  the  Earl  had  refolv'd  upon  it.  Ac- 
cordingly, at  Night  he  put  out  to  Sea  in 
his  open  Felucca^  all  which  he  fpent  five 
Leagues  from  Shore,  with  no  other  Com- 
pany than  one  Captain  and  his  Rowers. 

In  the  Morning,  to  the  great  Satisfa&ion 
of  all,  Officers  and  others,  the  Earl  came 
again  to  Land;  and  immediately  began  to 
put  his  Men  into  the  feveral  Veffels  which 
lay  ready  in  Port  for  that  Purpofe.  But  at 
Night  their  Amaze  was  renewed,  when  they 
found  their  General  ready  to  put  in  execu- 
tion his  old  Refolution,  in  the  fame  Equi- 
page, and  with  the  fame  Attendance.  Ac- 
cordingly, he  again  felucca  d  himfelf ;  and 
they  faw  him  no  more  till  they  were  landed 
on  the  Mole  in  Barcelona. 

Whi:n  the  Earl  of  Peterborow  firften- 
gag'd  himfelf  in  the  Expedition  to  Spain^  he 
propos'd  to  the  Queen  and  her  Miniftry, 
that  Admiral  Shovel  might  be  join\d  in  Com- 
miffion  with  him  in  the  Command  of  the 
Fleet.  But  this  Year,  when  the  Fleet 
came  through  the  Straites,  under  Vice- 
Admiral  Leake^  the  Queen  had  fent  a  Com- 
miifion  to  the  Earl  of  Teterborow  for  the 
full  Command,  whenever  he  thought  fit  to 
come  aboard  in  Perfon.  This  it  was  that 
made  the  Genera]  endeavour^  at  all  Hazards, 
to  get  aboard  the  Fleet  by  Night;  for  he 

was 


[  H7  1 

was  apprehenfive,  and  the  Sequel  prov'd 
his  Apprehenfions  too  well  grounded,  that 
Admiral  Leah  would  make  his  Appearance 
with  the  whole  Body  of  the  Fleet,  which 
made  near  twice  the  Number  of  the  Ships 
of  the  Enemy  ;  in  which  Cafe  it  was  natural 
to  fuppofe,  that  the  Count  de  Tboloufe^  as 
foon  as  ever  the  French  Scouts  fhould  give 
Notice  of  our  Strength  ,  would  cut  his 
Cables  and  put  out  to  Sea,  to  avoid  an  En- 
gagement. On  the  other  hand,  the  Earl 
was  very  fenfible,  that  if  a  Part  of  his  Ships 
had  kept  a-ftern,  that  the  Superiority  might 
have  appeared  on  the  French  Side  $  or  rather 
if  they  had  bore  away  in  the  Night  towards 
the  Coaftof^fw#,  and  fallen  totheEafi-* 
ward  of  'Barcelona  the  next  Day,  a  Battle 
had  been  inevitable,  and  a  Victory  equally 
certain  $  fince  the  Enemy  by  this  Means  had 
been  tempted  into  an  Engagement,  and  their 
Retreat  being  cut  off,  and  their  whole  Fleet 
furrounded  with  almoft  double  their  Num- 
ber, there  had  hardly  been  left  for  any  of 
them  a  Probability  of  Efcaping, 

Therefore,  when  the  Earl  of  Teter^ 
borow  put  to  Sea  again  the  feeond  Evening, 
fearful  of  loofing  fuch  a  glorious  Opportu- 
nity, and  impatient  to  be  aboard  to  give  the 
necelfary  Orders,  he  order'd  his  Rowers  to 
obtain  the  fame  Station,  in  order  to  difcover 
the  Englijh  Fleet  And  according  to  his 
Wifhes  he  did  fall  in  with  it  $  but  unfor- 
L  2  tunately 


Fieet. 


[  HS  ] 

£^/<>/Fe-tunately  the  Night  was  fo  far  advanced, 
lanhe™n  that  it:  was  inipoffible  for  him  then  to  put  his 
board  the  Projedt  into  pra&ice.  Captain  Price,  a 
EngHfh  Gentleman  of  Wales,  who  commanded  a 
Third  Rate,  was  the  Perfon  he  firft  came 
aboard  of  $  but  how  amazd  was  he  to  find, 
in  an  open  Boat  at  open  Sea,  the  Perfon 
who  had  Commiflion  to  command  the  Fleet  ? 
So  foon  as  he  was  enter'd  the  Ship,  the  Earl 
fent  the  Ship's  Pinnace  with  Letters  to 
Admiral  Leake,  ^o  acquaint  him  with  his 
Orders  and  Intentions  $  and  to  Brigadier 
Stanhope  with  a  Notification  of  his  fafe  Ar- 
rival -3  but  theDarknefsofthe  Night  prov'd 
fo  great  an  Obftacle,  that  it  was  a  long 
time  before  the  Pinnace  could  reach  the  Ad- 
miral. When  Day  appear'd,  it  was  afto- 
niflhing  to  the  whole  Fleet  to  fee  the  Union 
Flag  waving  at  the  Main-top-maft  Head* 
No  Body  could  truft  his  own  Eyes,  or  guefs 
at  the  Meaning,  till  better  certify 'd  by  the 
Account  of  an  Event  fo  Angular  and  extra- 
ordinary. 

When  we  were  about  fix  Leagues  Di- 
ftance  from  Barcelona*,  the  Port  we  aim'd 
at,  one  of  the  French  Scouts  gave  the 
Alarm,  who  making  the  Signal  to  another, 
he  communicated  it  to  a  Third,  and  fo  on,  as 
we  afterward  forrowfully  found,  and  as  the 
Earl  had  before  apprehended :  The  French 
Admiral  being  thus  made  acquainted  with 
the  Force  of  our  Fleet,  hoifted  fail,  and 
2  made 


C  H9  ] 

made  the  beft  of  his  Way  from  us,  either 
purfuant  to  Orders,  or  under  the  plaufible 
Excufe  of  a  Retreat. 

This  favourable  Opportunity  thus  loft, 
there  remain 'd  nothing  to  do  but  to  land 
the  Troops  with  all  Expedition  ,♦  which  was 
executed  accordingly  :  The  Regiments  , 
which  the  Earl  of  ^Petcrborow  embark'd  the 
Night  before,  being  the  firft  that  got  into 
the  Town.  Let  the  Reader  imagine  how 
pleafing  fuch  a  Sight  muft  be  to  thofe  in 
Barcelona,  reduc'd  as  they  were  to  the  laft 
Extremity.  In  this  Condition,  to  fee  an 
Enemy's  Fleet  give  way  to  another  with 
Reinforcements  from  England,  the  Sea  at 
the  fame  Inftant  cover'd  with  little  Veflels 
crouded  with  greater  Succours ;  what  was  . 
there  wanting  to  compleat  the  glorious 
Scene,  but  what  the  General  had  project- 
ed, a  Fight  at  Sea3  under  the  very  Walls 
of  the  inverted  City,  and  the  Ships  of  the 
Enemy  finking,  or  tow'd  in  by  the  victo- 
rious JLnglifl)  I  But  Night,  and  a  few  Hours,, 
defeated  the  latter  Part  of  that  well  intended 
Land  skip. 

King  Thilif,  and  the  Marefchal  of 
France,  had  not  faiPd  to  pufh  on  the  Siege 
with  all  imaginable  Vigour  >  but  this  Re- 
treat of  the  Count  de  Tboloufe,  and  the 
News  of  thofe  Reinforcements,  foonchang'd 
the  Scene.  Their  Courage  without  was 
abated  proportionably,  as  theirs,  within  was 
X  |  slated* 


[  *5°] 

The  siege  elated.  In  thefe  Circumflances,  a  Council 
lonzraiid0^  War  being  call'd,  it  was  unanimoufly  re- 
fblv'd  to  raife  the  Siege.  Accordingly,  next 
Morning,  the  firft  of  May,  1706.  while 
the  Sun  was  under  a  total  Eclypfe,  in  a 
fuitable  Hurry  and  Confufion,  they  broke 
up,  leaving  behind  them  moft  of  their 
Cannon  and  Mortars,  together  with  vaft 
Quantities  of  all  Sorts  of  Ammunition  and 
Provifions,  fcarce  flopping  to  look  back 
till  they  had  left  all  but  the  very  Verge  of 
the  difputed  Dominion  behind  them. 

King  Charles  look'd  with  new  Pleafure 
upon  this  lucky  Effort  of  his  old  Deli- 
verers. Captivity  is  a  State  no  way  de- 
iirable  to  Perfons  however  brave,  of  the 
moft  private  Station  in  Life  -3  but  for  a  King, 
within  two  Days  of  falling  into  the  Hands 
of  his  Rival,  to  receive  fo  feafonable  and 
unexpected  a  Deliverance,  mu'ft  be  fuppofed, 
as  it  really  did,  to  open  a  Scene  to  univerfal 
Rejoicing  among  us,  too  high  for  any 
Words  to  exprefs,  or  any  Thoughts  to  ima- 
gine, to  thofe  that  were  not  prefent  and 
Partakers  of  it.  He  forthwith  gave  Orders 
for  a  Medal  to  be  ftruck  fuitable  to  the  Oc- 
cafion  ;  one  of  which,  fet  round  with  Dia- 
monds, he  preiented  to  Sir  John  Leakc>  the 
Evglijh  Admiral.  The  next  Orders  were 
forre-cafting  all  the  damaged  brafs  Cannon 
which  the  Enemy  had  left ;  upon  every  one 
of  which  was,   by  order,  a  Sun  eclyps'd, 

1  wiih 


[  *5'  1 

with  this  Motto  under  it:  Magna  farms 
obfcurantur. 

I  h  a  v  e  often  wonder'd  that  I  never 
heard  any  Body  curious  enough  to  enquire 
what  could  be  the  Motives  to  the  King  of 
Spain's  quitting  his  Dominions  upon  the 
raifing  of  this  Siege;  very  certain  it  is  that 
he  had  a  fine  Army,  under  the  Command 
of  a  Marefchal  of  France ',  not  very  confi- 
derably  decreas'd^  either  by  A&ion  or  De- 
fertion :  But  all  this  would  rather  increafe 
the  Curiofity  than  abate  it.  In  my  Opinion 
then,  though  Men  might  have  Curiofity 
enough,  the  Queflion  was  purpofely  evaded, 
under  an  Apprehenfion  that  an  honeft 
Anfwer  rauft  inevitably  give  a  higher  Idea 
of  the  General  than  their  Inclinations  led 
them  to.  At  firft  View  this  may  carry  the 
Face  of  a  Paradox  -y  yet  if  the  Reader  will 
confider,  that  in  every  Age  Virtue  has  had 
its  Shaders  or  Maligners,  he  will  himfelf 
eafily  folve  it,  at  the  fame  time  that  he  finds 
himfelf  compelled  to  allow,  that  thofe,  who 
found  themfelves  unable  to  prevent  his 
great  Services,  were  willing,  in  a  more 
fubtil  Manner,  to  endeavour  at  the  annulling 
of  them  by  Silence  and  Concealment. 

This  will  appear  more  than  bare  Suppo- 
fition,  if  we  compare  the  prefent  Situation,  as 
to  Strength^  of  the  two  contending  Powers  : 
The  French,  at  the  Birth  of  the  Siege,  con- 
fined of  five  thoufand  Horfe  and  Dragoons, 
L  4  and 


[  is*-] 

and  twenty-five  thoufand  Foot,  effe&ive 
Men.  Now  grant,  that  their  kili'd  and 
wounded,  together  with  their  Sick  in  the 
Hofpitals,  might  amount  to  five  Thoufand  ; 
yet  as  their  Body  of  Horfe  was  entire,  and 
in  the  beft  Condition,  the  Remaining  will 
appear  to  be  an  Army  of  twenty-five  Thou- 
fand at  lead.  On  the  other  Side,  all  the 
Forces  in  'Barcelona,  even  with  their  Re- 
inforcements, amounted  to  no  more  than 
feven  thoufand  Foot  and  four  hundred 
Horfe.  Why  then3  when  they  rais'd  their 
Siege,  did  not  they  march  back  into  the 
Heart  of  Spain,  with  their  fo  much  fuperior 
Army  ?  or,  at  leaft,  towards  their  Capital  ? 
The  Anfwer  can  be  this,  and  this  only ,-  Be- 
caufe  the  Earl  of  Teterbprow  had  taken 
iuch  provident  Care  to  render  all  fecure, 
that  it  was  thereby  render'd  next  to  an  Im- 
poifibility  for  them  fo  to  do.  That  Gene- 
ral was  fatisfy'd,  that  the  Capital  of  Cata- 
lonia muft,  in  courfe,  fall  into  the  Hands 
of  the  Enemy,  unlefs  a  fuperior  Fleet  re- 
mov'd  the  Count  de  Tholoufe,  and  threw  iq 
timely  Succours  into  the  Town  :  And  as 
that  could  not  depend  upon  him,  but  others., 
he  made  it  his  chief  Care  and  affiduous 
Employment  to  provide  againfl:  thofe 
Strokes  of  Fortune  to  which  he  found  him- 
felf  again  likely  to  be  expos'd,  as  he  often 
bad  been ;  and  therefore  had  he  Refource 
bat  Vigilance  and  Precaution  which  had 

often, 


C  '53  1 

often  retricv'd  him,  when  to  others  his  Cii> 
cumftances  feem'd  to  be  moft  deiperate. 

The  Generality  of  Mankind,  and  the 
French  in  particular,  were  of  opinion  that 
the  taking  Barcelona  would  prove  a  decifive 
Stroke,  and  put  a  Period  to  the  War  in 
Spain ;  and  yet  at  that  very  Inftant  I  was 
inclin'd  to  believe,  that  the  General  flatter'd 
himfelf  it  would  be  in  his  Power  to  give  the 
Enemy  fufficient  Mortification,  even  though 
the  Town  fhould  be  oblig'd  to  fubmit  to 
King  Philip.  The  wife  Meafures  takert 
induc'd  me  fo  to  believe,  and  the  Sequel 
approv'd  it ;  for  the  Earl  had  fo  well  ex- 
pended his  Caution,  that  the  Enemy,  on 
the  Difappointment,  found  himfelf  under  a 
Neceffity  of  quitting  Spain  -y  and  the  fame 
would  have  put  him  under  equal  Difficul- 
ties had  he  carry 'd  the  Place.  The  French 
could  never  have  undertaken  that  Siege 
without  depending  on  their  Fleet,  for  their 
Artillery,  Ammunition,  and  Provisions  ,- 
iince  they  muft  be  inevitably  fore'd  to  leave 
behind  them  the  ftrong  Towns  of  Tortofa, 
JLerida^  and  Taragona,  The  Earl,  there- 
fore, whofe  perpetual  Difficulties  feem'd 
rather  to  render  him  more  fprightly  and  vi- 
gorous, took  care  himfelf  to  examine  the 
whole  Country  between  the  Ebro  and 
Barcelona  i  and,  upon  his  doing  fo,  was 
pleafingly,  as  well  as  fenfibly  fatisfy'd,  that 
it  was  practicable  to  render  their  Return  into 

the 


the  Heart  of  Spain  impoflible,  whether  they 
did  or  did  not  fucceed  in  the  Siege  they  were 
fo  intent  to  undertake. 

There  were  but  three  Ways  they  could 
attempt  it :  The  firft  of  wThich  was  by  the 
Sea-fide,  from  Taragona  towards  Tortofa ; 
the  moft  barren,  and  confequently  the  moft 
improper  Country  in  the  Univerfe  to  fuftain 
an  Army  ,•  and  yet  to  the  natural,  the  Earl 
had  added  fuch  artificial  Difficulties,  as  ren- 
dered it  abfolutely  impoifible  for  an  Army 
to  fubfift  or  march  that  Way. 

The  middle  Way  lay  through  a  better 
Country  indeed,  yet  only  practicable  by  the 
Care  which  had  been  taken  to  make  the 
Road  fo.  And  even  here  there  was  a  Ne- 
ceility  of  marching  along  the  Side  of  a 
Mountain,  where,  by  vaft  Labour  and  In- 
duftry,  a  high  Way  had  been  cut  for  two 
Miles  at  leaft  out  of  the  main  Rock.  The 
Earl  therefore,  by  fomewhat  of  the  fame 
Labour,  foon  made  it  impaffabie.  He  em- 
ploy 'd  to  that  End  many  Thoufands  of  the 
Country  People,  under  a  few  of  his  own 
Officers  and  Troops,  who  cutting  up  twenty 
feveral  Places,  made  fo  many  Precipices, 
perpendicular  almoft  as  a  Wall,  which  ren- 
dered it  neither  fafe,  or  even  to  be  attempt- 
ed by  any  fingle  Man  in  his  Wits,  much  lefs 
by  an  Army.  Befides,  a  very  few  Men,  from 
the  higher  Cliffs  of  the  Mountain,  might 
have  defiroy'd  an  Army  with  the  Arms  of 

Nature 


C  155  J 

Nature  only,  by  rolling  down  large  Stones 
and  Pieces  of  the  Rock  upon  the  Enemy 
patting  below. 

The  laft  and  uppermoft  Way,  lay  thro* 
the  hilly  Part  of  Catalonia,  and  led  to  Le- 
rida,  towards  the  Head  of  the  Ebre,  the 
ftrongeft  Place  we  had  in  all  Spain,  and 
which  was  as  well  furnifh'd  with  a  very 
good  Garrifon.  Along  this  Road  there  lay 
many  old  Caftles  and  little  Towns  in  the 
Mountains,  naturally  ftrong,-  all  which 
would  not  only  have  afforded  Oppofition, 
but  at  the  fame  time  have  entertain'd  an  E- 
nemy  with  variety  of  Difficulties ;  and  efpe- 
cially  as  the  Earl  had  given  Orders  and 
taken  Care  that  all  Cattle,  and  every  Thing 
neceffary  to  fuftain  an  Army,  fhould  be  con- 
vey'd  into  Places  of  Security,  either  in  the 
Mountains  or  thereabouts.  Thefe  three 
Ways  thus  precautioufly  fecur'd,  what  had 
the  Earl  to  apprehend  but  the  Safety  of  the 
Arch-Duke  j  which  yet  was  through  no 
Default  of  his,  if  in  any  Danger  from  the 
Siege  ? 

For  I  well  remember,  on  Receipt  of  an 
Exprefs  from  the  Duke  of  Savoy  (as  he  fre- 
quenly  fent  fuch  to  enquire  after  the  Pro- 
ceedings in  Spain)  I  was  fhew'd  a  Letter, 
wrote  about  this  time  by  the  Earl  of  Teter* 
borow  to  that  Prince,  which  rais'd  my  Spi- 
rits, though  then  at  a  very  low  Ebb.  It 
was  too  remarkable  to  be  forgot ;   and  the 

Subflance 


[i56] 

Subftance  of  it  was.  That  his  Highncft 
might  depend  upon  it,  that  he  (the  Earl) 
was  in  much  better  Circumftances  than  he 
was  thought  to  be  :  That  the  French 
Officers,  knowing  nothing  of  the  Situation 
of  the  Country,  would  find  themfelves  ex- 
treamly  difappointed,  fince  in  cafe  the  Siege 
was  rais'd,  their  Army  fliould  be  oblig'd  to 
abandon  Spain:  Or  in  cafe  the  Town  was 
taken,  they  fliould  find  themfelves  fliut  up 
in  that  Corner  of  Catalonia,  and  under  an 
Impoffibility  of  forcing  their  Way  back, 
either  through  J r agon  or  Valencia :  That 
by  this  Means  all  Spain,  to  the  JLbro, 
would  be  open  to  the  Lord  Galoway,  who 
might  march  to  Madrid,  or  any  where  elfe, 
without  Oppofition.  That  he  had  no  other 
Uneafinefs  or  Concern  upon  him,  but  for 
thePerfon  of  the  Arch-Duke,  whom  he  had 
neverthelefs  eameftly  folicited  not  to  re- 
main in  the  Town  on  the  very  firft  Ap- 
pearance of  the  intended  Siege. 

BARCELONA  being  thus  reliev'd,  and 
King  "Philip  forc'd  out  of  Spain,  by  thefe 
cautious  Steps  taken  by  the  Earl  of  Teter- 
horow,  before  we  bring  him  to  Valencia^ 
it  will  be  neceffary  to  intimate,  that  as  it 
always  was  the  Cuftom  of  that  General  to, 
fettle,  by  a  Council  of  War,  all  the  Mea-. 
fures  to  be  taken,  whenever  he  was  oblig'd 
for  the  Service  to  leave  the  Arch-Duke  -%  a 
Council  of  War  vyas  opw  accordingly  held, 

where 


[i57l 

Where  all  the  General  Officers,  and  thofe  in 
greateft  Employments  at  Court  aflifted. 
Here  every  thing  was  in  the  moft  folemn 
Manner  concerted  and  refolv'd  upon ;  here 
Garrifons  were  fettled  for  all  the.  ftrong 
Places,  and  Governors  appointed :  But  the 
main  Article  then  agreed  upon  was,  that 
King  Charles  fliould  immediately  begin  his 
Journey  to  Madrid^  and  that  by  the  Way 
of  Valencia.  The  Reafon  aifign'd  for  it 
was,  becaufe  that  Kingdom  being  in  his 
Poflellion,  no  Difficulties  could  arife  which 
might  occafion  Delay,  if  his  Majefty  took 
that  Rout.  It  was  likewife  agreed  in  the 
fame  Council,  that  the  Earl  of  Teterborow 
fliould  embark  all  the  Foot,  not  in  Gar- 
rifons, for  their  more  fpeedy,  as"  well  as 
more  eafy  Conveyance  to  Valencia.  The 
fame  Council  of  War  agreed,  that  all  the 
Horfe  in  that  Kingdom  fliould  be  drawn  to- 
gether, the  better  to  infure  the  Meafures  to 
be  taken  for  the  opening  and  facilitating  his 
Majefty's  Progrefs  to  Madrid. 

Accordingly,  after  thefe  Refolutions 
were  taken,  the  Earl  of  Teterborow  embarks 
his  Forces  and  fails  for  Valencia^  where  he 
was  doubly  welcom'd  by  all  Sorts  of  People 
upon  Account  of  his  fafe  Arrival,  and  the 
News  he  brought  along  with  it.  By  the 
Joy  they  exprefs'd,  one  would  have  ima- 
ging that  the  General  had  efcap'd  the  fame 
Danger  with  the  King  •  and,  in  truth,  had 

their 


c  15*1 

their  King  arriv'd  with  him  in  Perfbn,  the 
moft  loyal  and  zealous  would  have  found 
themfelves  at  a  lofs  how  to  have  exprefs'd 
their  Satisfa&ion  in  a  more  fenfible  Manner. 
Soon  after  his  Landing,  with  his  cufto- 
mary  Vivacity,  he  apply  a  himfelf  to  put  in 
execution  the  Refolutions  taken  in  the  Coun- 
cils of  War  at  'Barcelona ;  and  a  little  to 
improve  upon  them,  he  rais'd  an  intire  Re- 
giment of  Dragoons,  bought  them  Horfes, 
provided  them  Cloaths,  Arms,  and  Accou- 
trements $  and  in  fix  Weeks  time  had  them 
ready  to  take  the  Field ;  a  thing  though 
hardly  to  be  parallell'd,  is  yet  fcarce  worthy 
to  be  mentioned  among  fo  many  nobler 
A&ions  of  his ;  yet  in  regard  to  another 
General  it  may  merit  Notice,  fince  while  he 
had  Madrid  in  Pofleflion  near  four  Months, 
he  neither  augmented  his  Troops,  nor  lay'd 
up  any  Magazines,*  neither  fent  he  all  that 
time  any  one  Exprefs  to  concert  any  Mea-* 
fures  with  the  Earl  of  Teterborow  ;  but  lay 
under  a  perfed:  Inactivity,  or  which  was 
worfe,  negotiating  that  unfortunate  Projed 
of  carrying  King  Charles  to  Madrid  by  the 
round-about  and  ill-concerted  Way  of  Jra- 
gon-y  a  Project  not  only  contrary  to  the 
folemn  Refolutions  of  the  Council  of  War; 
but  which  in  reality  was  the  Root  of  all  our 
fucceeding  Misfortunes ;  and  that  only  for 
the  wretched  Vanity  of  appearing  to  have 
had  fome  Share  in  bringing  the  King  to  his 

Capital  $ 


.     [  *59  ] 

Capital ;  but  how  minute  a  Share  it  was 
will  be  manifeft,  if  it  be  confider'd  that 
another  General  had  firft  made  the  Way 
cafy,  by  driving  the  Enemy  out  of  Spain ; 
and  that  the  French  General  only  ftay'd  at 
Madrid  till  the  Return  of  thofe  Troops 
which  were  in  a  manner  driven  out  of 
Spain. 

And  yet  that  Tranfa&ion,  doughty  as  it 
was,  took  up  four  raoft  precious  Months, 
which  moft  certainly  might  have  been  much 
better  employ 'd  in  rendering  it  impoffible 
for  the  Enemy  to  re-enter  Spain  $  nor  had 
there  been  any  great  Difficulty  in  fo  doing, 
but  the  contrary,  if  the  General  at  Madrid 
had  thought  convenient  to  have  join'd  the 
Troops  under  the  Earl  of  Teterhorow*  and 
then  to  have  march'd  directly  towards 
Tampekna^  or  the  Frontiers  of  France. 
To  this  the  Earl  of  Teterborow  folicited 
the  King,  and  thofe  about  him  ,-  he  advis'd, 
defir'd,  and  intreated  him  to  lofe  no  time, 
but  to  put  in  Execution  thofe  Meafures  re- 
folv'd  on  at  Barcelona.  A  Council  of  War 
in  Valencia  renewed  the  fame  Application ; 
but  all  to  no  Purpofe,  his  Rout  was  order'd 
him,  and  that  to  meet  his  Majefty  on  the 
Frontiers  of  Jrragon.  There,  indeed,  the 
Earl  did  meet  the  King ;  and  the  French 
General  an  Army,  which,  by  Virtue  of  a 
decrepid  Intelligence,  he  never  faw  or 
heard  of  till  he  fled  from  it  to  his  Camp 

at 


[  i6o  ] 

at  Gttadalira.  Inexprefftble  was  the  Con- 
fufion  in  this  fatal  Camp :  The  King  from 
An  agon  •>  the  Earl  of  Teterbonw  from 
Valencia  arriving  in  it  the  fame  Day,  al- 
moft  the  fame  Hour  that  the  Earl  of  Galo- 
way  entered  under  a  hafty  Retreat  before 
the  French  Army. 

But  to  return  to  Order,  which  a  Zeal 
of  Juftice  has  made  me  fomewhat  anticipate ; 
the  Earl  had  not  been  long  at  Valencia  be- 
fore he  gave  Orders  to  Major-General 
Windham  to  march  with  all  the  Forces  he 
had,  which  were  not  above  two  thoufand 
Rcquba  Men,  and  lay  Siege  to  Requina^  a  Town 
kfieg'd.  ten  Leagues  diftant  from  Valencia^  and  in 
the  Way  to  Madrid.  The  Town  was  not 
very  ftrong,  nor  very  large ;  but  fure  the 
odlieft  fortify 'd  that  ever  was.  TheHoufes 
in  a  Circle  conne&ively  compos'd  the  Wall  j 
and  the  People^  who  defended  the  Town, 
inftead  of  firing  from  Horn  works,  Counter- 
fcarps,  and  Baftions,  fir'd  out  of  the  Win- 
dows of  their  Houfes. 

Notwithstanding  all  which,  General 
Windam  found  much  greater  Oppofition 
than  he  at  firft  imagin'd ;  and  therefore 
finding  he  fhould  want  Ammunition,  he  fent 
to  the  Earl  of  Teterborow  for  a  Supply  •  at 
the  fame  time  afligning,  as  a  Reafon  for  it, 
the  unexpected  Obflinacy  of  the  Town.  So 
foon  as  the  Earl  received  the  Letter  he  fent 
for  me  $  and  told  me  I  muft  repair  to  Re- 

quina* 


[  i6,  ] 

quillet^  where  they  would  want  an  Engi- 
neer y  and  that  I  mud  be  ready  next  Morn- 
ing, when  he  fliould  order  a  Lieutenant, 
with  thirty  Soldiers  and  two  MatrofTes,  to 
guard  fome  Powder  for  that  Service.  Ac- 
cordingly, the  next  Morning  we  fet  out,  the 
Lieutenant,  who  was  a  JDutcbman,  and 
Commander  of  the  Convoy,  being  of  my 
Acquaintance. 

We  had  reach'd  Saint   Jago*,    a  final!, 
Village   about  midway  between  Valencia 
and  Requirta,  when  the  Officer,  juft  as  he 
was  got  without  the  Town,  refolving  to 
take  up  his  Quarters  on  the  Spot,  ordered 
the  Mules  to  be  unloaded.     The  Powder, 
which  confided  of  forty-five  Barrels,  was 
pil'd  up  in  a  Circle,  and  cover'd  with  Oil- 
cloth, to  preferve  it  from  the  Weather ;  and 
though  we  had  agreed  to  fup  together  at 
my  Quarters  within  the  Village,  yet  being 
weary  and  fatigu'd,  he  order'd  his  Field-  . 
Bed  to  be  put  up  near  the  Powder,  and  fo 
lay  down  to  take  a  fliort  Nap.    I  had  fcarce^^* 
been  at  my  Quarters  an  Hour,  when  a  wdh  Barrels  of 
den  Shock  attack^  the  Houfe  fo  violently  Jj^jy 
that  it  threw  down  Tiles,  Windows,  Chim-an  Accident 
neys  and  all.     It  prefently  came  into  my 
Head  what  was  the  Occafion  ,•   and  as  my 
Fears  fuggefted  fo  it  prov'd  :  For  running  to 
the  Door  I  faw  a  Cloud  afcending  from  the 
Spot  I  left  the  Powder  pitch'd  upon.     In 
hafte  making  up  to  which,  nothing  was  to 

M  be 


v> 


be  feen  but  the  bare  Circle  upon  which  it 
had  flood.  The  Bed  was  blown  quite  away, 
and  the  poor  Lieutenant  all  to  pieces,  feve- 
ral  of  his  Limbs  being  found  feparate,  and 
at  a  va(l  Diftance  each  from  the  other  ;  and 
particularly  an  Arm,  with  a  Ring  on  one 
of  the  Fingers,  The  MatroiTes  were,  if 
poffible,  in  a  yet  worfe  Condition,  that  is, 
as  to  Manglement  and  Laceration.  All  the 
Soldiers  who  were  (landing,  and  any  thing 
near,  were  (truck  dead.  Only  fuch  as  lay 
deeping  on  the  Ground  efcap'd  j  and  of 
thofe  one  aflur'd  me,  that  the  Blaft  removed 
him  feveral  Foot  from  his  Place  of  Repofe. 
In  fhort,  enquiring  into  this  deplorable 
Difafter,  I  had  this  Account:  That  a  Pig 
running  out  of  the  Town,  the  Soldiers 
endeavour'd  to  intercept  its  Return  ,♦  but 
driving  it  upon  the  Matrofles,  one  of  them, 
who  was  jealous  of  its  getting  back  into  the 
Hands  of  the  Soldiers,  drew  his  Piftol  to 
fhoot  it,  which  was  the  Source  of  this 
miferable  Cataftrophe.  The  Lieutenant  car- 
ry'd  along  with  him  a  Bag  of  Dollars  to 
pay  the  Soldiers  Quarters,  of  which  the 
People,  and  the  Soldiers  that  were,  .fav'd, 
found  many ;  but  blown  to  an  inconceivable 
Diftance. 

With  thofe  few  Soldiers  that  remained 
alive,  I  proceeded,  according  to  my  Orders, 
to  Reqitina -,  where,  when  1  arriv'd,  I 
gave  General  Windham  an  Account  of  the 

Difafter 


Difafier  at  St.  J  ago.     As  fuch  it  troubled 
him.,  and  not  a  little  on  account  of  the  Dis- 
appointment.    However,  to  make  the  bed 
of  a  bad  Market,  he  gave  Orders  for  the 
forming   of  a  Mine  under  an   old  Caftle, 
Which  was  part  of  the  Wall.     As  it  was  or- 
dered, fo  it  was  begun,    more  in  cTerroremi 
than  with  any  Expectation  of  Succefs  from 
it  as  a  Mine.     Neverthelefs,  I  had  fcarce 
began  to  frame  the  Oven  of  the  Mine,  when 
thofe  within  the  Town  defir'd  to  capitulate.  Requina 
This  being  all  we  could  aim  at,   under  thc/*mmto' 
Mifcarriage   of  our    Powder  at   St.  Jago 
(none  being  yet  arriv'd  to  fupply  that  De- 
fed)  Articles  were  readily  granted  themj 
purfuant  to  which,  that  Part  of  the  Garrifon, 
which  was  compos'd  of  Caftilian  Gentry, 
had  Liberty  to  go  wherever  they  thought 
bcft,  and  the  reft  were  made  Prifoners  of 
Wan,     Requina  being  thus  reduc'd  to  the 
Obedience  of  Charles  ill.  a  new  rais'd  Regi- 
ment of  Spaniards  wras  left  in  Garrifon,  the 
Colonel  of  which  was  appointed  Governor^ 
and  our  Supply  of  Powder  having  at  laft  got 
fafe  to  us,  General  Windham  march'd  his 
little  Army  to  Cncnca. 

CUENCJ  is  a  confiderable  Gity  andcuenca 
a  Biilioprick  ;  therefore  to  pretend  to  fnhefies^ 
down  before  it  with  fach  a  Company  of 
Forragers,  rather  than  an  Army,  muft  be 
placd  among  the  hardy  Influences  of  the 
Earl  of  Teterborows  aufpicious  Adminiftra- 
M   %  tiorf- 


[    l&f   ]      ! 

tion.  On  the  out  Part  of  Cuenca  there  flood 
an  old  Caftle,  from  which,  upon  our  Ap- 
proach, they  play'd  upon  us  furioufly  :  But 
as  foon  as  we  could  bring  two  Pieces  of  our 
Cannon  to  bear,  wTe  anfwer'd  their  Fire 
with  fo  good  Succefs,  that  we  foon  oblig'd 
them  to  retire  into  the  Town.  We  had 
rais'd  a  Battery  of  twelve  Guns  againft  the 
City,  on  their  Rejection  of  theSummons  fent 
them  to  come  under  the  Obedience  of  King 
Charles  ;  going  to  which  from  the  old 
Caftle  laft  reduc  d,  I  receiv'd  a  Shot  on  the 
Toe  of  one  of  my  Shoes,  which  carry'd  that 
Part  of  the  Shoe  intirely  away,  without  any 
further  Damage. 

When  I  came  to  that  Battery  we  ply'd 
them  warmly  (as  well  as  from  three  Mor- 
tars) for  the  Space  of  three  Days,  their 
Nights  included  -3  but  obferving,  that  in  one 
particular  Houfe,  they  were  remarkably 
bufy  ;  People  thronging  in  and  out  below ; 
and  thofe  above  firing  perpetually  out  of  the 
Windows,  I  was  refolv'd  to  have  one  Shot 
at  that  Window,  and  made  thofe  Officers 
about  me  take  Notice  of  it.  True  it  was, 
the  Diftance  would  hardly  allow  me  to 
hope  for  Succefs  ;  yet  as  the  Experiment 
could  only  be  attended  with  the  Expence  of 
a  {ingle  Ball,  I  made  it.  So  foon  as  the 
Smoak  of  my  own  Cannon  would  permit  it, 
we  could  fee  Clouds  of  Dud  iffuing  from 
out  of  the  Window,,  which,  together  with 

the 


[  i«5] 

the  People's  crouding  out  of  Doors,  con-*" 
vinc'd  the  Officers,  whom  I  had  defir  d  to 
take  Notice  of  it,  that  I  had  been  no  bad 
Markfman, 

Upon  this,  two  Priefts  were  fent  out  of 
the  Place  with  Propofals ,-  but  they  were  fo 
triflingly  extravagant,  that  as  foon  as  ever 
the  General  heard  them,  he  order'd  their 
Anfwer  in  a  frefli  Renewal  of  the  Fire  of 
both  Cannon  and  Mortars.  And  it  hap- 
pen'd  to  be  with  fo  much  Havock  and  Exe- 
cution, that  they  were  foon  taught  Reafon  ; 
and  fent  back  their  Divines,  with  much 
more  moderate  Demands.  After  the  Ge- 
neral had  a  little  modelfd  thefe  laft,  they 
were  accepted  ,*  and  according  to  the  Ar- 
ticles of  Capitulation,  the  City  was  that 
very  Day  furrender'd  into  our  Poffeffion.Cuenca 
The  Earl  of  Dzmcatmons  Regiment  took^rwf^ 
Guard  of  all  the  Gates ;  and  King  Charles 
was  proclaimed  in  due  Form. 

The  Earl  of  cPeterhorcrW)  during  this 
Expedition,  had  left  Valencia^  and  was  ar- 
rived at  my  Lord  Galway^s  Camp  at  Gua* 
dalaxara  ;  who  for  the  Confederates,  and 
King  Charles  in  particular,  unfortunately 
was  order'd  from  TorHigal^  to  take  the 
Command  from  a  General,  who  had  all 
along  been  almoft  miraculoufly  fuccefsful, 
and  by  his  own  great  Aftions  pav'd  the 
Way  for  a  fafe  Paflage  to  that  his  Sup- 
planter, 

■  M  x  Yex 


[  »66] 

Yet  even  in  this  fatal  Place  the  Earl  of 
■Peterborow  made  fome  Propofals,  which, 
had  they   beem    embrac'd,    might,    in   all 
Probability,  have  fecur'd  Madrid from  fall- 
ing into  the  Hands  of  the  Enemy  :   But,  in 
opposition  thereto,  the  Lord  Galwa}\  and 
all  his  'Portuguese  Officers,  were  for  forcing 
the  next  Day  the  Enemy  to  Battle.     The 
almofl:  only  Perfon  againft  it  was  the  Earl  of 
'peterborow  >   who  then  and  there  took  the 
Liberty  to  evince  the  Impoiiibility  of  com- 
ing  to  an    Engagement.      This  the   next 
Morning  too  evidently  made  apparent,  when 
upon  the  firft  Motion  of  our  Troops  towards 
the  River,  which  they  pretended  to  pafs, 
and  mud  pafs,  before  they  could  engage, 
they  were  fo  warmly  faluted  from  the  Bat- 
teries of  the  Enemy,  and  their  fmall  Shot, 
that  our  Regiments  were  forc'd  to  retire  in 
Confufion  to  their  Camp.     By  which  Re- 
buff all  heroical  Imaginations  were  at  prcr- 
fent  laid  aiide,  to  coniider  how  they  might 
make  their  Retreat  to  Valencia. 

The  Retreat  being  at  laft  refolv'd  on, 
and  a  Multiplicity  of  Generals  rendering 
our  bad  Circumftances  much  worfe,  the 
Earl  of  Peterborow  met  with  a  fortunate 
Reprieve,  by  Solicitations  from  the  Queen, 
and  Pefires  tantamount  to  Orders,  that  he 
would  go  with  the  Troops  left  in  Catalonia 
to  ihe.  Relief  of  the  Duke  of  Savoy.  It  is 
Jiardly'to  be  doubteq  that  that  General  was 

glad 


[  **}  ] 

glad  to  withdraw  from  thofe  Scenes  of  Con- 
fuiion,    which  were  but  too  vifible  to  Eyes 
even  lefs  difcernin.g  than  his.     However,  he 
forbore  to  prepare  himfelf  to  put  her  Ma- 
jefty's  Defires  in  execution,   as  they  were 
not  peremptory,  till  it  had  been  refoiv'd  by 
the  unanimous  Confent  of  a  Council  of  War, 
where  the  King,  all  the  Generals  and  Mi- 
nifters  were  prefent,  That  it  was  expedient 
for  the  Service  that  the  Earl  of  cPetcrborow, 
during  the  Winter  Seafon,  mould  comply 
with  her  Ma  jefty's  Defires,  and  go  for  Italy ; 
fince  he  might  return  before  the  opening  of 
the  Campaign,    if  it  mould  be  neceffary. 
And  return  indeed  he  did,  before  the  Cam- 
paign open'd,  and  brought  along  with  him 
one  hundred  thoufand  Pounds  from  Genoa, 
to  the  great  Comfort  and  Support  of  our 
Troops,    which   had   neither   Money  nor 
Credit.      But  on   his  Return,    that  noble 
Earl   found  the   Lord   Galzjvay  had  been 
near  as  fuccefsful  againft  him,  as  he  had  been 
unfuccefsful  agairfft   the   Enemy.     Thence 
was  the  Earl  oVPeterhorow  recall' d  to  make 
room  for  an  unfortunate  General,  who  the 
next  Year  fufferM  himfelf  to  be  decoy 'd  in- 
to that  fatal  Battle  of  Almanza. 

The  Earl  of  Teterborow^  on  his  leaving 
Valencia,  had  order'd  his  Baggage  to  fol- 
low him  to  the  Camp  at  Guadalajara  $ 
and  it  arriv'd  in  our  little  Camp,  fo  far  fafe 
in  its  way  to  the  greater  at  Guadalajara. 
^M  4  1  think 


[  ,68] 

I  think  it  confifted  of  feven  loaded  Wag- 
gons ;  and  General  Windham  gave  Orders 
for  a  fmall  Guard  to  efcorte  it ;  under  which 
they  proceeded  on  their  Journey  :  But  a- 
bout  eight  Leagues  from  Caenca^  at  a  pretty 
Town  call'd  Huette^  a  Party  from  the  Duke 
of  "Berwick's  Army,  with  Boughs  in  their 
Hats,  the  better  to  appear  what  they  were 
not  (for  the  Bough  in  the  Hat  is  the'  Badge 
of  the  Englijh,  as  white  Paper  is  the  Badge 
ofthe  French)  came  into  the  Town,  crying 
all  the  way.  Viva  Carlos  Tercero,  Viva. 
"With  thefe  Acclamations  in  their  Mouths, 
they  advanc'd  up  to  the  very  Waggons ; 
when  attacking  the  Guards,  who  had  too 
much  deluded  themfelves  with  Appearances, 
they  routed  'em,  and  immediately  plundered 
the  Waggons  of  all  that  was  valuable,  and 
then  march'd  off. 

The  Noife  of  this  foon  reach'd  the  Ears 
of  the  Earl  of  Teterhorcw  at  Guadalaxara* 
When  leaving  my  Lord  G always  Camp, 
purfuant  to  the  Refolutions  of  the  Council 
of  War,  with  a  Party  only  of  fourfcore  of 
Kil/egrew's  Dragoons,  he  met  General 
Windham*  little  Army  within  a  League  of 
Huette^  the  Place  where  his  Baggage  had 
been  plundered.  The  Earl  had  ltrong  Mo- 
tives of  Sufpicion,  that  the  Inhabitants  had 
given  Intelligence  to  the  Enemy  ^  and,  as 
is  very  natural,  giving  way  to  the  firft' 
Dictates  of  Refentment,  he  refolv'd  to  have 
2  lay'd. 


C  .169  J 

lay'd  the  Town  in  Allies :  But  when  he 
came  near  it,  the  Clergy  and  Magiftrates 
upon  their  Knees,  difavowing  the  Charge, 
and  afferting  their  Innocence,  prevail'd  on 
the  good  Nature  of  that  generous  Earl, 
without  any  great  Difficulty,  to  fpare  the 
Town,  at  leaft  not  to  burn  it. 

We  march'd  however  into  the  Town, 
and  that  Night  took  up  our  Quarters  there  ; 
and  the  Magiftrates,  under  the  Dread  of 
our  avenging  our  felves,  on  their  part  took 
Care  that  we  were  well  fupplied.  But  when 
they  were  made  fenfible  of  the  Value  of  the 
Lofs,  which  the  Earl  had  fuftain'dj  and 
that  on  a  moderate  Computation  it  amount- 
ed to  at  leaft  eight  thoufand  Piftoles;  they 
voluntarily  prefented  therafelves  next  Morn- 
ing, and  of  their  own  accord  offer  d  to 
make  his  Lordftiip  full  Satisfaction,  and 
that,  in  their  own  Phrafe,  de  Contado,  in 
ready  Money.  The  Earl  was  not  difpleas'd 
at  their  Offer ;  but  generoufly  made  An- 
fwer,  That  he  was  juft  come  from  my  Lord 
Gal'cjvay1s  Camp  at  Chincon,  where  he  found 
they  were  in  a  likelihood  of  wanting  Bread ; 
and  as  he  imagin'd  it  might  be  eafier  to 
them  to  raife  the  Value  in  Corn,  than  in 
ready  Money  3-  if  they  would  fend  to  that 
Value  in  Corn  to  the  Lord  Galways 
Camp,  he  would  be  fatisfy'd.  This  they 
with  Joy  embrac  d,  and  immediately  com- 
plied with, 

I  AM 


.    F  *7°  ] 

I  A  m  apt  to  think  the  laft  Century  (and 
I  very  much  fear  the  Current  will  be  as  de- 
ficient) can  hardly  produce  a  parallel  In- 
ftance  of  Generofity  and  true  publick  Spi- 
ritednefs  :  And  the  World  will  be  of  my 
Opinion ,  when  I  have  corroborated  this 
with  another  Paflage  fome  Years  after. 
The  Commiffioners  for  Stating  the  Debts 
due  to  the  Army,  meeting  daily  for  that 
Purpofe  at  their  Houfe  in  T)arby  Court  in 
Channel  Rcw>  I  there  mentioned  to  Mr. 
~Read>  Gentleman  to  his  Lordfhip,  this 
very  juft  and  honourable  Claim  upon  the 
Government,  as  Monies  advanced  for  the 
Ufe  of  the  Army.  Who  told  me  in  a  little 
Time  after,  that  he  had  mention'd  it  to  his 
Lordfhip ,-  but  with  no  other  Effed:  than  to 
have  it  reje&ed  with  a  generous  Difdain. 

While  we  ftay'd  at  Huette  there  was 
a  little  Incident  in  Life,  which  gave  me 
great  Diverfion.  The  Earl,  who  had  al- 
ways maintain'd  a  good  Correfpondence 
with  the  fair  Sex,  bearing  from  one  of  the 
Priefts  of  the  Place,  That  on  the  Alarm  of 
burning  the  Town,  one  of  the  fineft 
Ladies  in  all  Spain  had  taken  Refuge  in 
the  Nunnery,  was  delirous  to  fpeak  with 
her. 

The  Nunnery  flood  upon  a  fmall  rifing 
Hill  within  the  Town ;  and  to  obtain  the 
View,  the  Earl  had  prefently  in  his  Head 
this  Stratagem  $  he  fends  for  me,  as  Engi- 

neera 


C  *7l  ] 

neer,  to  have  my  Advice,  how  to  raife  a 
proper  Fortification  upon  that  Hill  out  of 
the  Nunnery.  I  waited  upon  his  Lordfhip 
to  the  Place,  where  declaring  the  Intent  of 
our  coming,  and  giving  plaufible  Reafons 
for  it,  the  Train  took,  and  immediately 
the  Lady  Abbefs,  and  the  fair  Lady,  came 
out  to  make  Interceffion,  That  his  Lord- 
fhip would  be  plcas'd  to  lay  afide  that  De- 
fign.  The  divine  Oratory  of  one,  and  the 
beautiful  Charms  of  the  other,  prevaifd  ; 
fo  his  Lordfhip  left  the  Fortification  to  be 
the  Work  of  fome  future  Generation. 

From  Huette  the  Earl  of  Teterborow 
march'd  forwards  for  Valencia*  with  only 
thofe  fouricore  Dragoons,  which  came  with 
him  from  Chincon^  leaving  General  Wind- 
ham purfuing  his  own  Orders  to  join  his 
Forces  to  the  Army  then  under  the  Com- 
mand of  the  Lord  Galway.  But  flopping 
at  Campilio*  a  little  Town  in  our  Way, 
his  Lordfhip  had  Information  of  a  moft  bar- 
barous Fa£t  committed  that  very  Morning 
by  the  Spaniards*  at  a  (mail  Villa^  about 
a  League  diftant,  upon  fome  Englifa ^Sol- 
diers. 

A  Captain  of  the  Englifh  Guards 
(whofe  Name  has  flip'd  my  Memory,  tho* 
I  well  knew  the  Man)  marching  in  order 
to  join  the  Battalion  of  the  Guards,  then 
under  the  Command  of  General  Windham* 
with  fome  of  his  Soldiers,  that  had  been  in 
i  the 


[    I73    ] 

the  Hofpital,  took  up  his  Quarters  rin  that 
little  Villa.  But  on  his  marching  out  of  ir^ 
next  Morning,  a  Shot  in  the  Back  laid 
that  Officer  dead  up  m  the  Spot :  And  as  it 
had  been  before  concerted,  the  Spaniards 
of  the  Place  at  the  fame  Time  fell  upon  the 
poor,  weak  Soldiers,  killing  feveral ;  not 
even  fparing  their  Wives.  This  was  but 
a  Prelude  to  their  Barbarity.;  their  favage 
Cruelty  was  only  whetted,  not  glutted. 
They  took  the  furviving  few  ;  hurried  and 
dragg'd  them  up  a  Hill,  a  little  without 
the  Villa.  On  the  Top  of  this  Hill  there 
was  a  Hole,  or  Opening,  fomewhat  iike 
the  Mouth  of  one  of  cur  Coal-Pits,  down 
this  they  caft  feveral,  who,  with  hideous 
Shrieks  and  Cries,  made  more  hideous  by 
the  Ecchoes  of  the  Chafm,  there  loft  their 
Lives. 

This  Relation  was  thus  made  to  the 
Earl  of  Teterborow ,  at  his  Quarters  at 
Campilio ;  who  immediately  gave  Orders 
for  to  found  to  Horfe.  At  firft  we  were  alL 
furpriz'd  j  but  were  foon  fatisfy'd,  that  it 
was  to  revenge,  or  rather,  do  Juftice,  on 
this  barbarous  A&ion. 

As  foon  as  we  enter'd  the  Villa  we 
found  that  moft  of  the  Inhabitants,  but 
efpecially  the  moft  Guilty,  had  withdrawn 
themfelves  on  our  approach.  We  found, 
however,  .many  of  the  dead  Soldiers 
Cloaths,  which  had  been  convey'd  into  the 

Church, 


[  '73  1 

Church,  and  there  hid.  And  a  ftrong  Ac- 
clifation  being  laid  againft  a  Perfon  belong- 
ing to  the  Church,  and  full  Proof  made, 
that  he  had  been  Angularly  Induftrious  in 
the  Execution  of  that  horrid  Piece  of  Bar- 
barity on  the  Hill,  his  Lordfhip  command- 
ed him  to  be  hang'd  up  at  the  Knocker  of 
the  Door. 

After  this  piece  of  military  Juftice, 
we  were  led  up  to  the  fatal  Pit  or  Hole, 
down  which  many  had  been  caft  headlong. 
There  we  found  one  poor  Soldier  alive, 
who,  upon  his  throwing  in,  had  catch'd 
faft  hold  of  fome  impending  Bufhes,  and 
fav'd  himfelf  on  a  little  Jutty  within  the 
Concavity.  On  hearing  us  talk  Englijh  he 
cry'd  out ;  and  Ropes  being  let  down,  in  a 
little  Time  he  was  drawn  up  ,•  when  he  gave 
us  an  ample  Detail  of  the  whole  Villany. 
Among  other  Particulars,  I  remember  he 
told  me  of  a  very  narrow  Efcape  he  had  in 
that  obfcure  Recefs.  A  poor  Woman,  one 
of  the  Wives / of  the  Soldiers,  who  were 
thrown  down  after  him,  ftruggled,  and 
roared  fo  much,  that  they  could  not,  with 
all  their  Force,  throw  her  cleaverly  in  the 
Middle  5  by  which  means  falling  near  the 
Side,  in  her  Fall  fhe  almoft  beat  him  from 
his  Place  of  Security. 

Upon  the  Conclufion  of  this  tragical 
Pvelation  of  the  Soldier  thus  faved ,  his 
Lordfhip  gave  immediate  Orders   for  the 

Firing 


[  ml 

Firing  of  the  Villa^  which  was  executed 
with  due  Severity :  After  which  his  LorcU 
fhip  march'd  back  to  his  Quarters  at  Cam- 
pilio ;  from  whence,  two  Days  after,  we 
arrived  at  Valencia.  Where,  the  firft 
Thing  prefented  to  that  noble  Lord,  was 
all  the  Papers  taken  in  the  Plunder  of  his 
Baggage,  which  the  Duke  of  ^Berwick  had 
generoufly  order'd  to  be  return'd  him, 
without  wafte  or  opening. 

I  t  was  too  manifeft,  after  the  Earl's  ar- 
rival at  this  City,  that  the  Alteration  in 
the  Command  of  the  Englijh  Forces,  which 
before  was  only  receiv'd  as  a  Rumour,  had 
deeper  Grounds  for  Belief,  than  many  of 
his  Friends  in  that  City  could  have  wiih'd. 
His  Lordfhip  had  gain'd  the  Love  of  all  by 
a  Thoufand  engaging  Condefcenfions  ,•  even 
his  Gallantries  being  no  way  prejudicial, 
were  not  offensive ;  and  though  his  Lord- 
fhip did  his  utmoft  to  conceal  his  Chagrin, 
the  Sympathy  of  thofe  around  him  made 
fuch  Difcoveries  upon  him,  as  would  have 
difappointed  a  double  Portion  of  his  Cauti> 
on.  They  had  feen  him  un-elated  under 
SuccefTes,  that  were  fo  near  being  unac- 
countable, that  in  a  Country  of  lefs  Super- 
ftition  than  Spain^  they  might  almoft  have 
pafs'd  for  miraculous ;  they  knew  full  well, 
that  nothing,  but  that  Series  of  SuccefTes 
had  pav'd  a  PafTage  for  the  General  that 
was  to  fuperfede  him;  thofe  only  having 

re- 


[  '75  ] 

removed  all  the  Difficulties  of  his  March 
from  Portugal  to  Madrid-,  they  knew 
him  the  older  General ;  and  therefore,  not 
knowing,  that  in  the  Court  he  came  from, 
Intrigue  was  too  often  the  Soul  of  Merit, 
they  could  not  but  be  amazed  at  a  Change, 
which  his  Lordfhip  was  unwilling  any  body 
fhould  perceive  by  himfelf. 

I  t  was  upon  this  Account,  that,  as  for- 
merly, he  treated  the  Ladies  with  Balls,  and 
to  purfue  the  Dons  in  their  own  Humour, 
order'd  a  Tawridore  or  Bull-Feaji.  In 
Spain  no  fort  of  publick  Diverfions  are 
efteemed  equal  with  this.  But  the  Bulls 
provided  at  Valencia^  not  being  of  the  right 
Breed,  nor  ever  initiated  in  the  Myfteries, 
did  not  acquit  themfelves  at  all  mafterly ; 
and  confequently,  did  not  give  the  Diver- 
fion,  or  Satisfaction  expe&ed.  For  which 
Reafon  I  fhall  omit  giving  a  Defcription  of 
this  Bull-Feaft ;  and  deiire  my  Reader  to 
fufpend  his  Curiofity  till  I  come  to  forae, 
which,  in  the  Spanijh  Senfe,  were  much 
more  entertaining ;  that  is,  attended  with 
much  greater  Hazards  and  Danger. 

But  though  I  have  faid,  the  Gallan- 
tries of  the  General  were  moftly  political, 
at  leaft  very  inoffenfive^  yet  there  hap- 
pen'd  about  this  Time,  and  in  this  Place^ 
a  piece  of  Gallantry,  that  gave  the  Earl  a 
vaft  deal  of  Offence  and  Vexation  $  as  a 
Matter,   that   in   its   Confcquences  might 

have 


C  176  1 

have  been  fatal  to  the  Intereft  of  King 
Charles,  if  not  to  the  Englijh  Nation  in 
general;  and  which  I  the  rather  relate,  in 
that  it  may  be  of  ufe  to  young  Officers,  and 
others;  pointing  out  to  them  the  Danger, 
not  to  fay  Folly,  of  inadvertent  and  preci- 
pitate Engagements,  under  unruly  Paf- 
{ions. 

I  have  faid  before,  that  Valencia  is 
famous  for  fine  Women.  It  indeed  abounds 
in  them ;  and  among  thofe,  are  great  Num- 
bers of  Courtezans  not  inferior  in  Beauty  to 
any.  Neverthelefs ,  two  of  our  Englijb 
Officers,  not  caring  for  the  common  Road, 
however  fafe,  refolv'd  to  launch  into  the 
deeper  Seas,  though  attended  with  much 
greater  Danger.  Amours,  the  common 
Failing  of  that  fair  City,  was  the  Occafion 
of  this  Accident,  and  two  Nuns  the  Obje&s. 
It  is  cuftomary  in  that  Country  for  young 
People  in  an  Evening  to  refort  to  the  Grates 
of  the  Nunneries,  there  to  divert  them- 
felves,  and  the  Nuns,-  with  a  little  pleafant 
and  inoffenfive  Chitchat.  For  though  I  have 
heard  fome  relate  a  World  of  naufeous  Paf- 
fages  at  fuch  Converfations,  I  muft  declare^ 
that  I  never  faw,  or  heard  any  Thing  un- 
feemly  ,•  and  therefore  whenever  I  have 
heard  any  fuch  from  fuch  Fabulifts,  I  never 
fo  much  wrong'd  my  Judgment  as  to  afford 
them  Credit. 

Our 


[  »77  1 

Our  two  Officers  were  very  afllduous  at 
the  Grates  of  a  Nunnery  in  this  Place  •  and 
having  there  pitched  upon  two  Nuns,  pro- 
fecuted  their  Amours  with  fuch  Vigour, 
that,  in  a  little  time,  they  had  made  a  very 
great  Progrefs  in  their  Affections,  without 
in  the  leaft  confidering  the  Dangers  that 
mud  attend  themfelves  and  the  Fair  >•  they 
had  exchang'd  Vows,  and  prevail'd  upon  the 
weaker  Veflels  to  endeavour  to  get  out  to 
their  Lovers.  To  effect  which,  foon  after, 
a  Plot  was  lay'd  j  the  Means,  the  Hour, 
and  every  thing  agreed  upon. 

It  is  the  Cuftotn  of  that  Nunnery,  as  of 
many  others,  for  the  Nuns  to  take  their 
weekly  Conrfes  in  keeping  the  Keys  of  all 
the  Doors.  The  two  Love-lick  Ladies 
giving  Notice  to  their  Lovers  at  the  Grate, 
that  one  of  their  Turns  was  come ,  the 
Night  and  Hour  was  appointed,  which  the 
Officers  punctually  observing ,  carry'd  off 
their  Prey  without  either  Difficulty  or  In- 
terruption. 

But  next  Morning,  when  the  Nuns 
Were  miffing,  what  an  Uproar  was  there 
over  all  the  City  $  The  Ladies  were  both 
of  Quality  j  and  therefore  the  Tidings  wTere 
firft  carry'd  to  their  Relations.  They  re- 
ceived the  News  with  Vows  of  utraoft  Ven- 
geance- and,  as  is  ufual  in  that  Country, 
put  themfelves  in  Arms  for  that  Purpofe. 
There  needed  no  great  canvafling  for  dif- 
N  covering 


[  i7«  1 

covering  who  were  the  Aggreflbrs:  The 
Officers  had  been  too  frequent,  and  too 
publick,  in  their  Addreffes,  to  leave  any 
room  for  queftion.  Accordingly,  they  were 
complain'd  of  and  fought  for  ,•  but  fenlible  at 
laft  of  their  paft  Temerity,  they  endeavour^ 
and  with  a  great  deal  of  Difficulty  perfected 
their  Efcape. 

Less  fortunate  were  the  two  fair  Nuns; 
their  Lovers,  in  their  utmoft  Exigence,  had 
forfaken  them ;  and  they,  poor  Creatures, 
knew  not  where  to  fly.  Under  this  fad 
Dilemma  they  were  taken ;  and,  as  in  like 
Offences,  condemn'd  dire&ly  to  the  Punifh- 
ment  of  immuring.  And  what  greater 
Punifhment  is  there  on  Earth  than  to  be  con- 
fin'd  between  four  narrow  Walls,  only  open 
at  the  Top ;  and  thence  to  be  half  fupported 
with  Bread  and  Water,  till  the  Offenders 
gradually  ftarve  to  Death  ? 

The  Earl  oiTeterborow^  though  highly 
exafperated  at  the  Proceedings  of  his  Offi- 
cers, in  companion  to  the  unhappy  Fair3 
refolv'd  to  interpofe  by  all  the  moderate 
•Means  poifible.  He  knew  very  well,  that 
no  one  Thing  could  fo  much  prejudice  the 
-Spaniard  againft  him,  as.  the  countenancing 
fuch  an  A&ion  $  wherefore  he  inveigh'd  a- 
gainft  the  Officers,  at  the  fame  time  that  he 
endeavour VI  to  mitigate  in  favour  of  the 
Ladies :  But  ajl  was  in  vain ;  it  was  urg'd 
againft  thofe  charitable  Interceilions,   that 

they 


[  J79  1 

they  had  broke  their  Vows,*  and  in  that 
had  broke  in  upon  the  Laws  of  the  Nun* 
nery  and  Religion  ;  the  Confequence  of  all 
which  could  be  nothing  lefs  than  the  Pjunifli- 
ment  appointed  to  be  inflicted,  And  which 
was  the  hardeft  of  all,  the  neareft  of  their 
Relations  moft  oppos'd  all  his  generous  Me- 
diations ;  and  thofe,  who  according  to  the 
common  Courfe  of  Nature  fhould  have 
thank'd  him  for  his  Endeavours  to  be  inftru- 
mental  in  refcuing  them  from  the  impending 
Danger,  grew  more  and  more  enrag'd,  be~ 
caufe  he  oppos'd  them  in  their  Defign  of  a 
cruel  Revenge. 

Notwithstanding  all  which  the  Earl 
perfever'd  j  and  after  a  deal  of  Labour,  firft 
got  the  Penalty  fufpended  ,•  and,  foon  after5 
by  the  Dint  of  a  very  confiderable  Sum  of 
Money  (a  moft  powerful  Argument,  which 
prevails  in  every  Country)  fav'd  the  poor 
Nuns  from  immuring  •  and  at  laft,  though 
WTith  great  Reludance,  he  got  them  receiv'd 
again  into  the  Nunnery.  As  to  the  War- 
like Lovers^  one  of  them  was  the  Year 
after  (lain  at  the  Battle  of  Almanza ;  the 
other  is  yet  living,  being  a  Brigadier  in  the 
Army. 

While  the  Earl  of  Teterborow  was  here 
with  his  little  Army  of  great  Kereticks, 
neither  Priefts  nor  People  were  fo  open  in 
their  fuperftitious  Fo  peries,  as  I  at  other 
times  found  them.     Fqr  which  Reafon  I 

N  2  will 


will  make  bold,  and  by  an  Antichronifm 
in  this  Place,  a  little  anticipate  fome  Obfer- 
vations  that  I  made  fome  time  after  the  Earl 
left  it.  And  as  I  have  not  often  committed 
fuch  a  Tranfgreflion,  I  hope  it  may  be  the 
more  excufable  now,  and  no  way  blemifli 
my  Memoirs,  that  I  break  in  upon  the  Series 
of  my  Journal. 

VALENCIA  is  a  handfome  City, 
and  a  Bifhoprick  $  and  is  confiderable  not 
only  for  the  Pleafantnefs  of  its  Situation  and 
beautiful  Ladies  ,•   but  (which  at  fome  cer- 
tain Times,  and  on  fome  Occafions,  to  them 
is  more  valuable  than  both  thofe  put  to- 
gether) for  being  the  Birth-place  of  Saint 
Vincent,  the  Patron  of  the  Place  ,•  and  next 
for  its  being  the  Place  where  SantoDomingo, 
the  firft  Inftitutor  of  the  'Dominican  Order 
had  his  Education.     Here,  in  honour  of  the 
laft,  is  a  fpacious  and  very  fplendid  Convent 
of  the  Dominicans.     Walking  by  which,  I 
one  Day  obferv'd  over  the  Gate,  a  Figure 
of  a  Man  in  Stone  ,♦  and  near  it  a  Dog  with 
a  lighted  Torch  in  his  Mouth.     The  Image 
I  rightly  enough  took  to  intend  that  of  the 
Saint  j   but  inquiring  of  one  of  the  Order, 
at  the  Gate,    the  Meaning  of  the  Figures 
near  it,   he  very  courteoufly  ask'd  me  to 
walk  in,  and  then  entertain'd  me  with  the 
following  Relation : 

When  the  Mother  of  Santo  Domingo  ^ 
faid  that  Religious,  was  with  Child  of  that 

future 


[  i8i  ] 

future  Saint,  flie  had  a  Dream  which  very 
much  affli&ed  her.  She  dreamt  that  flie 
heard  a  Dog  bark  in  her  Belly,-  and  in- 
quiring (at  what  Oracle  is  not  faid)  the 
Meaning  of  her  Dream,  ftie  was  told,  That 
that  Child  Jhould  hark  out  the  Go/pel  (ex- 
cufe  the  Barenefs  of  the  ExprefTion,  it  may 
run  better  in  Spanijh ;  tho',  if  I  remember 
right,  Erafmus  gives  it  in  Latin  much  the 
fame  Turn)  which  Jhould  thence  Jhine  out 
like  that  lighted  Torch.  And  this  is  the 
Reafon,  that  wherever  you  fee  the  Image 
of  that  Saint,  a  Dog  and  a  lighted  Torch  is 
in  the  Group. 

He  told  me  at  the  fame  time,  that  there 
had  been  more  Popes  and  Cardinals  of  that 
Order  than  of  any,  if  not  all  the  other.  To 
confirm  which,  he  led  me  into  a  large  Gal- 
lery, on  each  Side  whereof  he  fhew'd  me 
the  Pictures  of  all  the  Popes  and  Cardinals 
that  had  been  of  that  Order ;  among  which, 
I  particularly  took  Notice  of  that  of  Cardi- 
nal Howard^  great  Uncle  to  the  prefent 
Duke  of  Norfolk  But  after  many  Enco- 
miums of  their  Society,  with  which  he  in- 
terfpers'd  his  Difcourfe,  he  added  one  that 
I  leaft  valu'd  it  for ;  That  the  fole  Care  and 
Condudt  of  the  Inquifition  was  intruded 
with  them. 

Finding  me  attentive,  or  not  fo  con- 
tradictory as  the  Englijh  Humour  generally 
is,  he  next  brought  me  into  a  fair  and  large 
N  3  Cloifler, 


C  18a] 

Cloifter,  round  which  I  took  feveral  Turns 
with  him ;  and,  indeed,  the  Place  was  too 
delicious  to  tire,  under  a  Converfation  lefs 
pertinent  or  courteous  than  that  he  enters 
taind  me  with.  In  the  Middle  of  the 
Cloifter  was  a  fmall  but  pretty  and  fweet 
Grove  of  Orange  and  Lemon-trees ;  thefe 
bore  Fruit  ripe  and  green,  and  Flowers,  all 
together  on  one  Tree ;  and  their  Fruit  was 
fo  very  large  and  beautiful,  and  their 
Flowers  fo  tranfcendently  odoriferous,  that 
all  I  had  ever  feen  of  the  like  Kind  in  'Eng- 
land could  comparatively  pafs  only  for 
Beauty  in  Epitome,  or  Nature  imitated  in 
Wax-work,  Many  Flocks  alfo  of  pretty 
little  Birds,  with  their  chearful  Notes, 
$dded  not  a  little  to  my  Delight*  In  fhort, 
in  Life  I  never  knew  or  found  three  of  my 
Senfes  at  once  fo  exquifitely  gratify 'd. 

Not  far  from  this,  Saint  Vincent \  the 
Patron,  as  I  faid  before,  of  this  City,  has  a 
Chapel  dedicated  to  him.  Once  a  Year 
they  do  him  Honour  in  a  fumptuous  Pro- 
eefiion.  Then  are  their  Streets  all  ftrow'd 
with  Flowers,  and  their  Houfes  fet  off  with 
their  richeft  Tapeftries  $  every  one  drives  to 
excel  his  Neighbour  in  diftinguifliing  him- 
felf  by  the  Honour  he  pays  to  that  Saint; 
and  he  is  the  belt  Catholick,  as  well  as  the 
|>eft  Citizen,  in  the  Eye  of  the  religious^ 
\vhp  molt  exerts  himfelf  on  this  Occafion, 


D '%  ! 

The  Proceflion  begins  with  a  Cavalcade 
of  all  the  Friars  of  all  the  Convents  in  and 
about  the  City.  Thefe  walk  two  and  two 
with  folded  Arms,  and  Eyes  caft  down  to 
the  very  Ground,  and  with  the  greateft  out- 
ward Appearance  of  Humility  imaginable  ; 
nor,  though  the  Temptation  from  the  fine 
Women  that  fill'd  their  Windows,  or  the 
rich  Tapeftries  that  adorn'd  the  Balconies 
might  be  allow'd  fufficient  to  attract,  could 
I  obferve  that  any  one  of  them  all  ever 
mov'd  them  upwards. 

After  the  Friars  is  borne,  upon  the 
Shoulders  of  twenty  Men  at  leaft,  an  Image 
of  that  Saint  of  folid  Silver,  large  as  the 
Life :  It  is  plac'd  in  a  great  Chair  of  Silver 
likewife ;  the  Staves  that  bear  him  up,  and 
upon  which  they  bear  him,  being  of  the 
fame  Metal.  The  whole  is  a  moft  coftly 
and  curious  Piece  of  Workmanlhip,  fuch  as 
my  Eyes  never  before  or  fince  beheld. 

The  Magiftrates  follow  the  Image  and 
its  Supporters,  drefs'd  in  their  richeft  Ap- 
parel, which  is  always  on  this  Day,  and 
on  this  Occafion,  particularly  fumptuous  and 
diftinguifliing.  Thus  is  the  Image,  in  the 
greateft  Splendor,  borne  and  accompany'd 
round  that  fine  City ;  and  at  laft  convey 'd 
to  the  Place  from  whence  it  came : .  And  fo 
concludes  that  annual  Ceremony. 

The  Valencians^  as  to  the  Exteriors  of 

Religion3  are  the  moft  devout  of  any  in 

N  4  Spain% 


[  i84] 

'Spain,  though  in  common  Life  you  find 
them  amorous,  gallant,  and  gay,  like  other 
People  ;  yet  on  folemn  Occafions  there 
ftiines  out-right  fuch  a  Spirit  as  proves  them 
the  very  Bigots  of  Bigotry :  As  a  Proof  of 
which  AfTertion,  I  will  now  give  fome  Ac- 
count of  fuch  Observations,  as  I  had  time  to 
make  upon  them,  during  two  Lent  Seafons, 
while  I  refided  there. 

The  Week  before  the  Lent  commences, 
commonly  known  by  the  Name  of  Car- 
naval  Lime,  the  whole  City  appears  a  per-? 
feet  "Bartholomew  Fair;  the  Streets  are 
crouded,  and  the  Houfes  empty ;  nor  is  it 
pofflble  to  pafs  along  without  fome  Gambol 
or  Jack-pudding  Trick  offer 'd  to  you  ,-  Ink, 
Water,  and  fometimes  Ordure,  are  fure  to 
be  hurl'd  at  your  Face  or  Cloaths ;  and  if 
you  appear  concenrd  or  angry,  they  rejoyce 
&t  it,  pleas'd  the  more,  the  more  they  dif- 
pleafe  ;  for  all  other  Refentment  is  at  that 
time  out  of  Seafon,  though  at  other  times 
few  in  the  World  are  fuller  of  Refentment 
or  more  captious. 

The  younger  Gentry,  or  Dons,  to  ex- 
prefs  their  Gallantry,  carry  about  them 
Egg-fhells,  fill'd  with  Orange  or  other  fweet 
Water,  which  they  caft  at  Ladies  in  their 
Coaches,  or  fuch  other  of  the  fair  Sex  as  they 
happen  to  meet  in  the  Streets. 

But  after  all,  if  you  would  think  them 
extravagant  to  Pay,  as  much  tran/greffing 

the 


C  185  J 

the  Rules  of  common  Civility,  and  neither 
regarding  Decency  to  one  another,  nor  the 
Duty  they  owe  to  Almighty  God  ,♦  yet 
when  JJh-Wednefday  comes  you  will  ima- 
gine them  more  unaccountable  in  their  Con- 
dud,  being  then  as  much  too  exceflive  in  all 
outwards  Indications  of  Humility  and  Re- 
pentance. Here  you  fhall  meet  one,  bare- 
footed, with  a  Crofs  on  his  Shoulder,  a 
Burden  rather  fit  for  fomewhat  with  four 
Feet,  and  which  his  poor  Two  are  ready  to 
fink  under,  yet  the  vain  Wretch  bears  and 
fweats,  and  fweats  and  bears,  in  hope  of 
finding  Merit  in  an  Afs's  Labour. 

Others  you  ihall  fee  naked  to  their 
Waftes,  whipping  themfelves  with  Scourges 
made  for  the  Purpofe,  till  the  Blood  fol- 
lows every  Stroke ;  and  no  Man  need  be  at 
a  Lofs  to  follow  them  by  the  very  Tracks 
of  Gore  they  fhed  in  this  frentick  Perambu- 
lation. Some,  who  from  the  Thicknefs  of 
their  Hides,  or  other  Impediments,  have  not 
Power  by  their  Scourgings  to  fetch  Blood  of 
themfelves,  are  follow'd  by  Surgeons  with 
their  Lancets,  who,  at  every  Turn,  make 
ufe  of  them,  to  evince  the  Extent  of  their 
Patience  and  Zeal  by  the  Smart  of  their 
Lolly.  While  others,  mingling  Amour 
with  Devotion,  take  particular  Care  to  pre- 
fent  themfelves  all  macerated  before  the 
Windows  of  their  MiftrefTes  ;  and  even  in 
that  Condition,  not  fatisfy'd  with  what  they 
1  have 


ft*-] 

have  barbaroufly  done  to  themfelves,  they 
have  their  Operators  at  hand,  to  evince 
their  Love  by  the  Number  of  their  Gafhes 
and  Wounds  ,*  imagining  the  more  Blood 
they  lofe,  the  more  Love  they  fhew,  and 
the  more  they  ftiall  gain.  Thefe  are  ge- 
nerally Devoto's  of  Quality  j  though  the 
Tenet  is  univerfal,  that  he  that  is  mod 
bloody  is  moft  devout. 

After  thefe  Street-Exercifes,  thefe 
oftentatious  Caftigations  are  over,  thefe 
Self-facrificers  repair  to  the  great  Church, 
the  bloodier  the  better;  there  they  throw 
themfelves,  in  a  Condition  too  vile  for  the 
Eye  of  a  Female,  before  the  Image  of  the 
Virgin  Mary ;  though  I  defy  all  their  Race 
of  Fathers,  and  their  infallible  holy  Father 
into  the  Bargain,  to  produce  any  Authority 
to  fit  it  for  Belief,  that  fhe  ever  delighted 
In  fuch  fanguinary  Holocaufts. 

During  the  whole  Time  of  Lent,  yoit 
will  fee  in  every  Street  fome  Prieft  or  Frier, 
upon  fome  Stall  or  Stool,  preaching  up  Re- 
pentance to  the  People  $  and  with  violent 
Blows  on  his  Bread  crying  aloud,  Mm 
<Qulpa^  mia  maxima  Ciilpa^  till  he  extra<ft 
reciprocal  Returns  from  the  Hands  of  his 
Auditors  on  their  own  Breafts. 

When  Good-Friday  is  come  they  enter- 
tain it  with  the  moft  profound  Show  of  Re- 
verence and  Religion,  both  in  their  Streets. 
and  in  their  Churches*  In  the  laft,  parti- 
cularly^ 


C  187  1 

eularly,  they  have  contriv'd  about  twelve 
a-Clock  fuddenly  to  darken  them,  fo  as  to 
render  them  quite  gloomy.  This  they  do 
to  intimate  the  Eclipfe  of  the  Sun,  which 
at  that  time  happen'd.  And  to  fignify  the 
Rending  of  the  Vail  of  the  Temple,  you 
are  ftruck  with  a  ftrange  artificial  Noife  at 
the  very  fame  Inftant. 

But  when  Eafier  Day  appears,    you 
find  it  in  all  Refpe&s  with  them  a  Day  of 
Rejoicing  ;  for  though  Abftinence  from  Fleili 
with  them,  who  at  no  time  eat  much,  is  not 
fo  great  a  Mortification  as  with  thofe  of  the 
fame  Perfuafion  in  other  Countries,  who  ea£ 
much  more,  yet  there  is  a  vifible  Satisfa- 
ction darts  out  at  their  Eyes,  which  demon- 
ftrates  their  inward  Pleafure  in  being  fet 
free  from  the  Confinement  of  Mind  to  the 
Diffatisfa&ion  of  the  Body.     Every  Perfon 
you  now  meet  greets  you  with  a  KefiirrexiP 
Jefus-y  a  good  Imitation  of  the  primitive 
Chriftians,  were  it  the  real  Efted:  of  Devo- 
tion.    And  all  Sorts  of  the  beft  Mufick 
(which  here  indeed  is  the  bed  in  all  Spain). 
proclaim  an  aufpicious  Valediction  to  the  de- 
parted  Seafon  of  fuperficial   Sorrow   and 
ftupid  Superftition.     But  enough  of  this:  I 
proceed  to  weightier  Matters. 
i     While  we  lay  at  Valencia^   under  the 
Vigilance  and   Care  of  the  indefatigable 
Earl,  News  wTas  brought  that  Jlicant  was 
faefieg'd  by  General  Gorge  by  Land,  while 
*  a  Squa=? 


[i88] 

a  Squadron  of  Men  of  War  battered  it  from 
the  Sea;  from  both  which  the  Befiegers 
play'd  their  Parts  fo  well,  and  fo  warmly 
ply'd  them  with  their  Cannon,  that  an  in- 
different practicable  Breach  was  made  in  a 
little  time. 

MJHONI  commanded  in  the  Place, 
being  again  receiv'd  into  Favour ,-  and 
clear'd  as  he  was  of  thofe  political  Infinua- 
tions  before  intimated,  he  now  feem'd  re- 
folv'd  to  confirm  his  Innocence  by  a  refo- 
lute  Defence.  However,  perceiving  that 
all  Preparations  tended  towards  a  Storm, 
and  knowing  full  well  the  Weaknefs  of  the 
Town,  he  withdrew  his  Garrifon  into  the 
Caftle,  leaving  the  Town  to  the  Defence  of 
its  own  Inhabitants. 

Just  as  that  was  doing,  the  Sailors,  not 
much  skill'd  in  Sieges,  nor  at  all  times 
capable  of  the  cooleft  Confideration,  with  a 
Refolution  natural  to  them,  ftorm'd  the 
Walls  to  the  Side  of  the  Sea  ,•  where  not 
meeting  with  much  Oppofition  (for  the 
People  of  the  Town  apprehended  the  leaft 
Danger  there)  they  foon  got  into  the  Place  ; 
and,  as  foon  as  got  in,  began  to  Plunder. 
This  oblig'd  the  People,  for  the  better  Se- 
curity of  themfelves,  td  open  their  Gates, 
and  feek  a  Refuge  under  one  Enemy,  in 
oppofition  to  the  Rage  of  another. 

General  Gorge^  as  foon  as  he  enter'd 
the  Town,  with  a  good  deal  of  feeming 

Lenity, 


E  189] 

Lenity,  put  a  flop  to  the  Ravages  of  the 
Sailors ;  and  ordered  Proclamation  to  be 
made  throughout  the  Place,  that  all  the  In- 
habitants fhould  immediately  bring  in  their 
beft  Effe&s  into  the  great  Church  for  their 
better  Security.  This  was  by  the  miftaken 
Populace,  as  readily  comply 'd  with;  and 
neither  Friend  nor  Foe  at  all  difputing  the 
Command,  or  queftioning  the  Integrity  of 
the  Intention;  the  Church  was  prefently 
crouded  with  Riches  of  all  forts  and  fizes. 
Yet  after  fome  time  remaining  there,  they 
were  all  taken  out,  and  difpofed  of  by  thofe, 
that  had  as  little  Property  in  'em,  as  the 
Sailors,  they  were  pretended  to  be  preferv'd 
from. 

The  Earl  of  Teterborow  upon  the  very 
firft  News  of  the  Siege  had  left  Valencia^ 
and  taken  Shipping  for  Jlicant ;  where  he 
arrived  foon  after  the  Surrender  of  the 
Town,  and  that  Outcry  of  the  Goods  of 
the  Towns-men.  Upon  his  Arrival,  Ma- 
bom  ,  who  was  block'd  up  in  the  Caftle, 
and  had  experienced  his  indefatigable  Di- 
ligence, being  in  want  of  Provisions,  and 
without  much  hope  of  Relief,  defired  to 
capitulate.  The  Earl  granted  him  honour- 
able Conditions,  upon  which  he  delivered 
up  the  Caftle,  and  Gorge  was  made  Go- 
vernor. 

Upon  his  Lordfliip's  taking  Ship  at  Va* 
Untidy  I  had  an  Opportunity  of  marching 

with 


[  i9o  ] 

with  thofe  Dragoons,  which  efcoifted  hitri 
from  Cajlik>  who  had  received  Orders  to 
march  into  Murcia.  We  quarterd  the  firft 
Night  at  Alcirct)  a  Town  that  the  River 
Segra  almoft  furrounds,  which  renders  it 
capable  of  being  made  a  Place  of  vaft 
Strength,  though  now  of  fmall  Importance. 

The  next  Night  we  lay  at  Xatim, 
a  Place  famous  for  its  Steadinefs  to  King 
Charles.  General  Baffin  a  Spaniard^  be- 
ing Governor;  it  was  befieg'd  by  the 
forces  of  King  Philips  but  after  a  noble 
Refinance,  the  Enemy  were  beat  off,  and 
the  Siege  raifed ;  for  which  Effort,  it  is 
fuppofed,  that  on  the  Retirement  of  King 
Charles  out  of  this  Country,  it  was  depriv  a 
of  its  old  Name  Xatwa^  and  is  now  called 
San  Felippo  |  though  to  this  day  the  Peo- 
ple thereabouts  much  diffallow  by  their 
Practice,  that  novel  Denomination. 

We  march'd  next  Morning  by  Monte- 
za;  which  gives  Name  to  the  famous  Title 
of  Knights  of  Monteza.  It  was  at  the 
Time  that  Colonel  0  Guaza,  an  Iriffjmany 
was  Governor,  befieg'd  by  the  People  of 
the  Country,  in  favour  of  King  Charles ; 
but  very  ineffectually,  fo  it  never  chang'd 
Its  Sovereign  .  That  Night  we  quarterd 
at  Fonte  dalas  Figuras,  within  one  League 
of  Almanza  j  where  that  fatal  and  unfortu- 
nate Battle,  which  I  fliall  give  an  Account 

of 


[  *9i  ] 

of  in  its  Place,    was   fought    tHe   Year 
after,  under  the  Lord  Galway. 

0  n  our  fourth  days  March  we  were  o- 
blig'd  to  pafs  Vilkna,  where  the  Enemy 
had  a  Garrifon.  A  Party  of  Mabonfs 
Dragoons  made  a  part  of  that  Garrifon,  and 
they  were  commanded  by  Major  Oroirk  an 
IriJJo  Officer,  who  always  carried  the  Re- 
putation of  a  good  Soldier,  and  a  brave 
Gentleman. 

1  had  all  along  made  it  my  Obfervation, 
that  Captain  Matthews,  who  commanded 
thofe  Dragoons,  that  I  march'd  with,  was 
a  Perfon  of  much  more  Courage  than  Con- 
duit;  and  he  us'd  as  little  Precaution  here, 
though  juft  marching  under  the  Eye  of  the 
Enemy,  as  he  had  done  at  other  Times* 
As  I  was  become  intimately  acquainted  with 
him,  I  rode  up  to  him,  and  told  him  the 
Danger,  which,  in  my  Opinion,  attended 
our  prefent  March*  I  pointed  out  to  him 
juft  before  Vtllena  a  jutting  Hill,  under 
which  we.  inuft  unavoidably  pafs$  at  the 
turning  whereof,  1  was  apprehenfive  the 
Enemy  might  lie,  and  either  by  Ambufcade 
or  otherwife,  furprize  us ;  I  therefore  in- 
treated  we  might  either  wait  the  coming 
of  our  Rear  Guard  5  or  at  lead  march  with 
a  little  more  leifure  and  caution.  But  he 
taking  little  notice  of  all  I  faid,  kept  on 
his  round  March  ;  feeing  which,  I  prefs'd 
forward  my  Mule,  which  was  a  very  good 

one., 


C  W  1 

orie,  and  rid  as  faft  as  her  Legs  could  carry 
her,  till  I  had  got  on  the  top  of  the  Hill. 
When  I  came  there,  I  found  both  my  Ex- 
pectation, and  my  Apprehenfibns  anfwer'd : 
For  I  could  very  plainly  difcern  three  Squa- 
drons of  the  Enemy  ready  drawn  up,  and 
waiting  for  Us  at  the  very  winding  of  the 
Hill. 

Hereupon  I  haftened  back  to  the 
Captain  with  the  like  Speed,  and  told  him 
the  Difcovery  I  had  made ;  who  never- 
thelefs  kept  on  his  March,  and  it  was  with 
a  good  deal  of  Difficulty,  that  I  at  laft  pre- 
vail'd  on  him  to  halt6  till  our  Rear  Guard 
of  twenty  Men  had  got  up  to  us.  But 
thofe  joining  us,  and  a  new  Troop  of  Spa* 
nijh  Dragoons,  who  had  march'd  towards 
us  that  Mornings  appearing  in  Sight ;  our 
Captain,  as  if  he  was  afraid  of  their  rival- 
ling him  in  his  Glory,  at  the  very  turn  of 
the  Hill,  rode  in  a  full  Gallop,  with  Sword 
in  Hand,  up  to  the  Enemy.  They  flood 
their  Ground,  till  we  were  advanc'd  within 
two  hundred  Yards  of  them;  and  then  in 
Confufion  endeavoured  to  retire  into  the 
Town. 

They  were  obliged  to  pafs  over  a  fmall 
Bridge,  too  fmall  to  admit  of  fuch  a  Com- 
pany in  fo  much  hafte ;  their  crouding  upon 
which  obftru&ed  their  Retreat,  and  left  all 
that  could  not  get  over,  to  the  Mercy  of 
our  Swords,  which  fpar'd  none.    However 

narrow 


[  xn  1 

narrow  as  the  Bridge  was,  Captain  Mat-* 
thews  was  refolved  to  venture  over  after 
the  Enemy  ;  on  doing  which,  the  Enemy 
made  a  half,  till  the  People  of  the  Town, 
and  the  very  Priefts  came  out  to  their  Re- 
lief with  fire  Arms.  On  fo  large  an  Ap- 
pearance, Captain  Matthews  thought  it  not 
advifeable  to  make  any  further  Advances ; 
fo  driving  a  very  great  flock  of  Sheep  from 
under  the  Walls,  he  continued  his  March 
towards  Elda.  In  this  Action  we  loft 
Captain  Topham^  and  three  Dragoons. 

I  remember  we  were  not  marched  very 
far  from  the  Place,  where  this  Rencounter 
happen'd;    when  an  IriJJo  Dragoon  over- 
took the  Captain,  with  a  civil  Meffage  from 
Major  0  Rairk,    defiring  that  he   would 
not  entertain  a  mean  Opinion  of  him  for  the 
Defence  that  was  made  ^  fince  could  he  have 
got  the  Spaniards   to    have    flood    their 
Ground,   he  fhould  have  given  him  good 
Pveafon  for  a  better.     The  Captain  return'd 
a  complimental  Anfwer,  and  fo  march'd  on. 
This  Major  0  Rairk,  or  0  Roork,  was  the 
next  Year  killed  at  Jlkay,  being  much  la- 
mented, for  he  was  efteemed  both  for  his 
Courage  and  Conduct,  one  of  the  beil  of 
the  Irijh  Officers  in  the  Spanijh  Service.     I 
was  likewife  informed  that  he  was  defend- 
ed from  one  of  the  ancient  Kings  of  Ireland ; 
the  Mother  of  the  honourable  Colonel  Ta- 


[  *94  1 

'get,  one  of  the  Grooms  of  the  Bedchamber 
to  his  prefent  Majefty,  was  nearly  related 
to  this  Gallant  Gentleman. 

One  remarkable  Thing  I  faw  in  that 
Adion,  which  affe&ed  and  furpnzed  me  : 
A  Scotch  Dragoon,  of  but  a  moderate  Size, 
with  his  large  basket-hilted  Sword,  ftruck 
off  a  Spaniard's  Head  at  one  ftroke,  with 
the  fame  eafe,  in  appearance,  as  a  Man 
would  do  that  of  a  Poppy. 

When  we  came  to  Elda  (a  Town  much 
in  the  Intereft  of  King  Charles^  and  famous 
for  its  fine  Situation,  and  the  largeft  Grapes 
in  Spain)  the  Inhabitants  received  us  in  a 
manner  as  handfome  as  it  was  peculiar  -y  all 
Handing  at  their  Doors  with  lighted 
Torches;  which  confidering  the  Time  we 
enter'd  was  far  from  an  unwelcome  or  dis- 
agreeable Sight. 

The  next  Day  feveral  requefted  to  be 
the  Meflengers  of  the  A&ion  at  Villena  to 
the  Earl  of  Teterborow  at  Alicant ;  but  the 
Captain  return'd  this  Anfwer  to  all,  that  in 
confideration  of  the  Share  that  I  might  juft- 
ly  claim  in  that  Day's  Tranfa&ions ,  he 
could  not  think  of  letting  any  other  Perfon 
be  the  Bearer.  So  giving  me  his  Letters  to 
the  Earl,  I  the  next  Day  delivered  them  to 
him  at  Alicant.  At  the  Delivery,  Colonel 
Killegrew  (whofe  Dragoons  they  were) 
being  prefent^  he  exprefled  a  deal  of  Satif- 

fa&ion 


C  '95  ] 

fa&ion  at  the  Account,  and  his  Lord/Lip 
was  pleafed  at  the  fame  time  to  appoint  me 
fole  Engineer  of  the  Caftle  of  Alicant. 

Soon  after  which,  that  fuccefsful  Gene- 
ral embark'd  for  Genoa,  according  to  the 
Refolutions  of  the  Council  of  War  at 
Guadalaxara,  on  a  particular  Commiffion 
from  the  Queen  of  England,  another  from 
Charles  King  of  Spain,  and  charged  at  the 
fame  time  with  a  Requeft  of  the  Marquifs 
das  Minas,  General  of  the  cPorUtgneze 
Forces,  to  negotiate  Bills  for  one  hundred 
thoufand  Pounds  for  the  ufe  of  his  Troops. 
In  all  which,  tho'he  was  (as  ever)  fuccefs- 
ful  ;  yet  may  it  be  faid  without  a  figure, 
that  his  Departure,  in  a  good  meafure,  de- 
termin'd  the  Succefs  of  the  confederate 
Forces  in  that  Kingdom.  True  it  is,  the 
General  return'd  again  with  the  fortunate 
Fruits  of  thofe  Negotiations  •  but  never  to 
ad:  in  his  old  aufpicious  Sphere  :  And  there- 
fore, as  I  am  now  to  take  leave  of  this  for- 
tunate General,  let  me  do  it  with  Juftice3 
in  an  Appeal  to  the  World,  of  the  not  to 
be  parallel' d  Ufage  (in  thefe  latter  Ages,  at 
leaft)  that  he  met  with  for  all  his  Services ; 
fuch  a  vaft  variety  of  Enterprises,  all  fuc- 
cefsful,  and  which  had  fet  all  Europe  in 
amaze ;  Services  that  had  given  occafion  to 
fuch  folemn  and  publickThankfgivings  in  our 
Churches,  and  which  had  received  fuch  ve- 
ry remarkable  Approbations,  both  of  Sove- 

O  2  reign 


C  196] 

reign  and  Parliament  $  and  which  had  been 
reprefented  in  fo  lively  a  Manner,  in  a  Let- 
ter wrote  by  the  King  of  Spain,  under  his 
own  Hand,  to  the  Queen  of  England,  and 
communicated  to  both  Houfes  in  the  Terms 
follow  in  2  : 

M  a  d  a  m5  my  Sifter, 

I  Should  net  have  been  fo  long  e'er  I  did 
my  felf  the  Honour  to  repeat  the  Affu- 
ranees  ofmyfincereRefpe^s  to  you,  had  I  not 
waited  for  the  good  Occafion  which  I  now  ac- 
quaint you  with,  that  the  City  of  Barcelona 
is  furrendred  to  me  by  Capitulation.  I 
doubt  not  but  you  will  receive  this  great 
News  with  intire  SatisfaUion,  as  well,  be- 
caufe  this  happy  Succefs  is  the  Effeti  of 
your  Arms  ^  always  glorious,  as  from  the  pure 
Motives  of  that  "Bounty  and  maternal Affec^ 
tion  you  have  for  me,  and  for  every  Thing 
which  may  contribute  to  the  Advancement 
of  my  Inter  eft. 

I  mu(i  do  this  Juftice  to  all  the  Officers 
and  common  Soldiers  ,  and  particularly 
to  my  Lord  Peterborow,  that  he  has  fhewn 
in  this  whole  Expedition,  a  Conftancy y 
Bravery,  and  ConduU,  worthy  of  the  Choice 
that  your  Majefty  has  made  of  him,  and 
that  he  could  no  ways  give  me  better 
Satisfaction  than  he  has,  by  the  great  Zeal 
and  Apphcation^which  he  has  equally  tefti- 

fed 


[  l91  1 

fed  for  my  Inter  eft,  and  for  the  Service  of 
my  Per  [on.     I  owe  the  fame  Jufiice  to  "Bri- 
gadier Stanhope,  for  his  great  Zeal^  Vigj- 
lance,  and  very  wife  Conduli,  which  he  has 
given  Proofs  of  upon  all  Qccafions  :  As  alfo 
to  allyonr  Officers  of  the  Fleets  particularly 
to  your  worthy  Admiral  Shovel,  affuring 
your  Majefty^  that  he  has  afjifed  me  in  this 
Expedition,  with  an  inconceivable  Readi- 
nefs  and  Application,  and  that  no  Admiral 
will  he  ever  better  able  to  render  me  gj  eater 
SatisfaUion^  than  he  has  done,    during 
the  Siege  of  Barcelona,  fome  of  your  Maje- 
ftys  Ships ,  with  the  AJJiftance  of  the  Troops 
of  the  Country,  have  reduced  the  Town  of 
Tarragona,  and  the  Officers  are  made  Pri~ 
[oners  of  War.    The  Town  of  Girone  has 
been  taken  at  the  fame  Time  by  Surprize, 
by  the  Troops  of  the  Country.    The  Town  of 
Lerida  has fubmitted,  as  alfo  that  of  Tor- 
tofa  upon  the  Ebro ;  fo  that  we  have  taken 
all  the  Places  of  Catalonia,  except  Rofes. 
Some    Places   in    Aragon   near  Sarragofa 
have  declared  for  me^  and  the  Garrifon  of 
the  Caftle  of  Denia  in  Valencia  have  main- 
tained their  Poft,  and  repulfed  the  Ene- 
my ,-  400  of  the  Enemies  Cavalry  have  en- 
tered into  our  Service ',  and  a  great  number 
of  their  Infantry  have  deferted. 

THIS,  Madam,  is  the  State  that  your 
Arms7  and  the  Inclination  of  the  People 
have  put  my  Affairs  in.    It  is  unnecejfary 

O  3  to 


[  198] 

to  tell  you  what  flops  the  Courfe  of  thefe 
Conquejis ;  it  is  not  the  Seafon  of  the  Tear, 
•nor  the  Enemy ;  thefe  are  no  Obflacles  to 
your 'Troops,  who  defire  nothing  more  than 
to  aU  tinder  the  ConduU  that  your  Ma- 
jefty  has  appointed  them.  The  taking 
cf  Barcelona,  with  fo  fmall  a  Number  of 
Troops,  is  very  remarkable  $  and  what  has 
been  done  in  this  Siege  is  almoft  without 
Example-,  that  with  /even  or  eight  thouf and 
Men  of  your  Troops,  and  two  hundred  Mi- 
quelets,  we  fhould  furround  and  inveft  a 
Place,  that  thirty  thouf  and  French  could 
not  block  up. 

AFTER  a  March  of  thirteen  Hours, 
the  Troops  climb V  up  the  Rocks  and  'Pre- 
cipices,  to  attack  a  Fortification  ftronger 
than  the  Place,  which  the  Earl  of  Peter- 
borow  has  fent  you  a  Plan  of-,  two  Ge- 
nerals ,  with  the   Grenadiers ,    attaclid 
it  Sword  in  Hand.     In  which  Atiion  the 
Prince  of  Heffe  died  gloriouJJy ,   after  fo 
many  brave  AUions  :  I  hope  his  "Brother 
'and  his  Family  will  always  have  your 
Majcflys  Protection.     With  eight  hundred 
Men  they  fore  d  the  cover  d  Way,  and  all 
the  Intrenchments  and  Works,  one  after  an- 
other, till  they  came  to  the  I  aft  Work  which 
furrounded  it,  againft  five  hundred  Men  of 
regular  Troops  which  defended  the  Place, 
and  a  Reinforcement  they  had  rcceivd  -, 
and  three  T)ays  afterwards  we  became 

Maflers 


[  *99  ] 

Makers  of  the  Place.  We  afterwards  at- 
tacfcd  the  Town  on  the  Side  of  the  Caftle. 
We  landed  again  our  Cannon,  and  the  other 
Artillery,  with  inconceivable  Trouble,  and 
formd  two  Camps,  diftant  from  each  other 
three  Leagues,  againfl  a  Garrifon  almoft 
as  numerous  as  our  Army,  whofe  Cavalry 
was  double  the  Strength  of  ours.  The  firft 
Camp  was  fo  well  intrenched,  that  'twas 
defended  by  two  thoufand  Men  and  the 
T)ragoons  -,  whilft  we  attacUd  the  Town 
with  the  reji  of  our  Troops.  The  'Breach 
being  made,  we  prepaid  to  make  a  general 
AJJault  with  all  the  Army.  Thefe  are 
Circumftances,  Madam,  which  diftinguiflo 
this  AUion,  perhaps,  from  all  others. 

HERE  has  happen d  an  mforefeen 
Accident.  The  Cruelty  of  the  pretended 
Viceroy,  and  the  Report  fpread  abroad, 
that  he  would  take  away  the  Trifoners, 
contrary  to  the  Capitulation,  provolid  the 
"Burghers,  and  fome  of  the  Country  Teople, 
to  take  up  Arms  againfl  the  Garrifon, 
whilft  they  were  bufy  in  packing  up  their 
Baggage,  which  was  to  be  fent  away  the 
next  Day ;  fo  that  every  thing  tended  to 
Slaughter :  But  your  Majeflys  Troops, 
entering  into  Town  with  the  Earl  of  Peter- 
borowj  inftead  of  feeking  Village,  a  "Pra- 
ctice common  uponfuch  Occafions,  appeasd 
the  Tumult,  and  havefavd  the  Town,  and 
even  the  Lives  of  their  Enemies,  with  a 
O  4  2)if 


[    SOO    ] 

T)ifcipline    and    Generofity  'Without  Ex- 
ample. 

WHA  T  remains  is,  that  I  return  you 
my  me  ft  hearty  Thanks  for  fending  fo  great 
a  Ftiet,  andfuch  good  and  valiant  Troops 
to  my  Afftftance.  After  fo  happy  a  Begin- 
Tilings  I  have  thought  it  proper,  according 
to  the  Sentiments  of  your  Generals  and  Ad- 
mirals, to  fupport^  by  my  Prefence,  the 
Conquefts  that  we  have  made ;  and  to 
Jhew  my  SubjeUs,  fo  affectionate  to  my  Per- 
fon,  that  I  cannot  abandon  them.  I  receive 
fuch  Succours  from  your  Majefty,  and  from 
your  generous  Nation,  that  I  am  loaded 
with  your  "Bounties  \  and  am  not  a  little 
concern  d  to  think  that  the  Support  of  my 
Inter  ell  fhould  caufe  fo  great  an  Expence. 
But,  Madam,  I  facrifice  my  Per  fon,  and 
my  Subjects  in  Catalonia  expofe  alfo  their 
Lives  and  Fortunes,  upon  the  Affurances 
they  have  of  your  Majefty  s  generous  Pro- 
tection. Tour  Majejiy  and  your  Council 
knows  better  than  we  do,  what  is  neceffary 
for  our  Confervation.  We  Jhall  then  expeti 
your  Majeftys  Succours,  with  an  entire 
Confdence  in  your  Bounty  and  Wifdorn.  J 
further  Force  is  neceffary :  We  give  nofmall 
Tjiverfion  to  France,  and  without  dcubt 
they  will  make  their  utmofl  Efforts  againfi 
me  as  fori  as  poffibk  -,  but  I  am  fatisfy  d, 
that  the  fame  Efforts  will  be  made  by  my 
Allies  to  defend  me.     Tour  Goodnefs,  Ma- 

dam> 


[    201    ] 

dam,  inclines  you>  and  your  Tower  enables 
yotiy  to  fupport  thofe  that  the  "Tyranny  of 
France  would  opprefs.  J 11  that  lean  in- 
fimiate  to  your  Wifdom^  and  that  of  your 
Allies  ^  is^  that  the  Forces  employ  d  in  this 
Country  will  not  he  unprofitable  to  the  pub- 
lick  Goody  but  will  be  under  an  Obligation 
and  Necejfity  to  att  with  the  titmojl  Vigour 
againfi  the  Enemy*     Iam> 

With  an  inviolable  Affe&ion, 

Refped,  and  moft 

Sincere  Acknowledgment, 

From  the  Camp  at 
Senia,  before  Bar-         */r   j  c*/i 

celona,  the  iz*  of      Madam,  my  Sifter, 


Oftober,  1705. 


Your  moft  affe&ionate 
Brother, 

Charles, 


And  yet,  after  all,  was  this  noble  Ge- 
neral not  only  recalled,  the  Command  of 
the  Fleet  taken  from  him,  and  that  of  the 
Army  given  to  my  Lord  Galway,  without 
Alignment  of  Caufe ;  but  all  Manner  of 
Falfities  were  induftrioufly  fpread  abroad, 
not  only  to  diminifli,  if  they  could,  his  Re- 
1  putation, 


[    202    ] 

putation,  but  to  bring  him  under  Accufa- 
tions  of  a  malevolent  Nature.  I  can  hardly 
imagine  it  necefTary  here  to  take  Notice, 
that  afterward  he  difprov'd  all  thofe  idle 
Calumnies  and  ill-invented  Rumours ;  or  to 
mention  what  Compliments  he  receiv'd,  in 
the  moft  folemn  Manner,  from  his  Country, 
upon  a  full  Examination  and  thorough  can- 
vaffing  of  his  Actions  in  the  Houfe  of  Lords. 
But  this  is  too  notorious  to  be  omitted,  That 
all  Officers  coming  from  Spainwere  purpofe- 
ly  intercepted  in  their  Way  to  London^  and 
craftily  examin'd  upon  all  the  idle  Stories 
which  had  pafs'd  tending  to  leffen  his  Cha- 
racter: And  when  any  Officers  had  aflcrted 
the  Falfity  of  thofe  Inventions  (as  they  all 
did,  except  a  military  Sweetner  or  two)  and 
that  there  was  no  Poffibility  of  laying  any 
thing  amifs  to  the  Charge  of  that  General- 
they  were  told,  that  they  ought  to  be  care, 
ful  however,  not  to  fpeak  advantagioufly 
of  that  Lord's  Condud:,  unlefs  they  were 

willing  to  fall  Martyrs  in  his  Caufe A 

Thing  fcarce  to  be  credited  even  in  a  popirti 

Country.     But  Scipio  was  accus'd tho' 

(as  my  Author  finely  obferves)  by  Wretches 
only  known  to  Pofterity  by  that  ftupid  Ac- 
cufation. 

As  a  mournful  Valedi&ion,  before  I  enter 
upon  any  new  Scene,  the  Reader  will  par- 
don this  melancholy  Expoftulation.     How 
mortifying  muft  it  be  to  an  JLnglifhman^ 
i  after 


C  2°3  J 

after  he  has  found  himfelf  folac'd  with  a  Re- 
lation of  fo  many  furprizing  Succefles  of  her 
Majefty's  Arms,  under  the  Earl  of  Teter- 
borow  y  Succefles  that  have  lay'd  before  our 
Eyes  Provinces  and  Kingdoms  redtic'd,  and 
Towns  and  Fortreffes  taken  and  reliev'd  ; 
where  we  have  feen  a  continu'd  Series  of 
happy  Events,  the  Fruits  of  Conduct  and 
Vigilance  ,•  and  Caution  and  Forefight  pre- 
venting Dangers  that  were  held,  at  firft 
View,  certain  and  unfurmountable :  To 
change  this  glorious  Landskip,  I  fay,  for 
Scenes  every  way  different,  even  while  our 
Troops  were  as  numerous  as  the  Enemy, 
and  better  provided,  yet  always  baffled  and 
beaten,  and  flying  before  the  Enemy,  till 
fatally  ruin'd  in  the  Battle  of  Almcmza  : 
How  mortifying  muft  this  be  to  any  Lover 
of  his  Country !  But  I  proceed  to  my  Me- 
moirs. 

A  L ICA  NT  is  a  Town  of  the  greateft 
Trade  of  any  in  the  Kingdom  of  Valencia^ 
having  a  ftrong  Caftle3  being  fituated  on  a 
high  Hill,  which  commands  both  Town 
and  Harbour.  In  this  Place  I  refided  a 
whole  Year  y-  but  it  was  foon  after  my  firft 
Arrival,  that  Major  Collier  (who  was  fhot 
in  the  Back  at  "Barcelona^  as  I  have  related 
in  the  Siege  of  that  Place)  hearing  of  me, 
fought  me  out  at  my  Quarters  ,•  and,  after 
a  particular  Enquiry  into  the  Succefs  of  that 
difficult  Task  that  he  left  me  upon,  and  my 

anfwering 


[  2<H  ] 

anfwering  all  his  Queftions  to  fatisfa&ion 
(all  which  he  receiv'd  with  evident  Plea- 
sure) he  threw  down  a  Purfe  of  Piftoles 
upon  the  Table ;  which  I  refufing,  he  told 
me,  in  a  mofthandfome  Manner,  his  Friend- 
ship was  not  to  be  preferv'd  but  by  my  ac- 
cepting it. 

After  I  had  made  fome  very  neceffary 
Repairs,  I  purftfd  the  Orders  I  had  receiv'd 
from  the  Earl  of  TeterboroWy  to  go  upon 
the  erecting  a  new  Battery  between  the 
Caftle  and  the  Town.  This  was  a  Task 
attended  with  Difficulties,  neither  few  in 
Number,  nor  fmall  in  Confequence ;  for  it 
was  to  be  rais'd  upon  a  great  Declivity, 
which  muft  render  the  Work  both  laborious 
and  precarious.  However,  I  had  the  good 
Fortune  to  effefl;  it  much  focner  than  was 
expeded  $  and  it  was  calfd  Gorges  Battery, 
from  the  Name  of  the  Governor  then  com- 
manding ,-  who,  out  of  an  uncommon  Pro- 
fufion  of  Generofity,  wetted  that  Piece  of 
Goffiping  with  a  diftinguifhing  Bowl  of 
Punch.  Brigadier  Bougard,  when  hefaw 
this  Work  fome  time  after,  was  pleas'd  to 
honour  it  with  a  fingular  Admiration  and 
Approbation,  for  its  Compleatnefs,  not- 
withftanding  its  Difficulties. 

This  Work,  and  the  Siege  of  Carta- 
genay  then  in  our  PofTeflion,  by  the  Duke 
of  'Berwick^  brought  the  Lord  Galzvay 
down  to  this  Place.     Cartagena  is  of  fo 

little 


[  s°5  1 

little  Diftance  from  Jlicant,  that  we  could 
eafily  hear  the  Cannon  playing  againft,  and 
from  it,  in  our  Caftle,  where  I  then  was. 
And  I  remember  my  Lord  Gdlway,  on  the 
fourth  Day  of  the  Siege,  fending  to  know 
if  I  could  make  any  ufeful  Obfervations,  as 
to  the  Succefs  of  it  ^  I  return'd,  that  I  was 
of  Opinion  the  Town  was  furrender'd,  from 
the  fudden  CefTation  of  the  Cannon,  which, 
by  our  News  next  Day  from  the  Place, 
prov'd  to  be  fad.   Cartagena  is  a  fmall  Sea- 
Port  Town  in  Murcia ;  but  has  fo  good  an 
Harbour,  that  when  the  famous  Admiral 
Ttoria  was   ask'd,  which  were  the;  three 
beft    Havens    in    the  Mediterranean,    he 
readily  return'd,   June,  July,  and  Carta- 
gena. 

Upon  the  Surrender  of  this  Place,  a  De- 
tachment of  Foot  was  fent  by  the  Governor, 
with  fome  Dragoons,  to  El/ha  ,•  but  it  be- 
ing a  Place  of  very  little  Strength  they  were 
foon  made  Prifonersof  War. 

The  Siege  of  Cartagena  being  over,  the 
Lord  Galway  return'd  to  his  Camp  j  and 
the  Lord  lluncannon  dying  in  Alicant,  the 
firft  Guns  that  were  fir'd  from  Gorge's  Bat- 
tery, were  the  Minute-Guns  for  his  Fune- 
ral. His  Regiment  had  been  given  to  the 
Lord  Montandre^  who  loft  it  before  he  had 
Poffeffion,  by  an  A&ion  as  odd  as  it  was 
fcandalous. 

That 


[  ao6  ] 

That  Regiment  had  received  Orders  to 
march  to  the  Lord  Galways  Camp,  under 
the  Command  of  their  Lieutenant-Colonel 
3iat eman ,  a  Perfon  before  reputedly  a 
good  Officer,  tho'  his  Conduct  here  gave 
People,  not  invidious,  too  much  Reafon  to 
call  it  in  Queftion.  On  his  March,  he 
was  fo  very  carelefs  and  negligent  (though 
he  knew  himfelf  in  a  Country  furrounded 
with  Enemies,  and  that  he  was  to  march 
through  a  Wood,  where  they  every  Day 
made  their  Appearance  in  great  Numbers) 
that  his  Soldiers  march'd  with  their  Muf- 
kets  flung  at  their  Backs,  and  went  one 
after  another  (as  neceflity  had  forc'd  us 
to  do  in  Scotland)  himfelf  at  the  Head  of 
'em,  in  his  Chaife,  riding  a  confiderable 
WTay  before. 

It  happened  there  was  a  Captain,  with 
threefcore  Dragoons,  detatch'd  from  the 
Duke  of  Berwick's  Army,  with  a  Defign 
to  intercept  fome  Cafh,  that  was  ordered  to 
be  fent  to  Lord  Galways  Army  from  A- 
licant.  This  Detachment,  miffing  of  that 
intended  Prize,  was  returning  very  difcon- 
folately,  R&  infect® ;  when  their  Captain, 
obferving  that  carelefs  and  diforderlyMarch 
of  the  Englijh,  refolv'd,  boldly  enough,  to 
attack  them  in  the  Wood.  To  that  Purpofe 
he  fecreted  his  little  Party  behind  a  great 
Barn  ;  and  lb  foon  as  they  were  half  palled 
by5  he  falls  upon  'em  in  the  Center  with 

his 


[  2°7  1 

his  Dragoons,  cutting  and  flafhing  at  fuch 
a  violent  Rate,  that  he  foon  difperfed  the 
whole  Regiment,  leaving  many  dead  and 
wounded  upon  the  Spot.  The  three  Co- 
lours were  taken  ;  and  the  gallant  Lieu- 
tenant-Colonel taken  out  of  his  Chaife,  and 
carried  away  Priibner  with  many  others  > 
only  one  Officer  who  was  an  Enfign3  and  fo 
bold  as  to  do  his  Duty,  was  kill'd. 

The  Lieutenant  who  commanded  the 
Granadiers,  received  the  Alarm  time  enough 
to  draw  his  Men  into  a  Houfe  in  their  way  ^ 
where  he  bravely  defended  himfelf  for  a 
long  Time ;  but  being  killed,  the  reft  imme- 
diately furrender'd.  The  Account  of  this 
A&ion  I  had  from  the  Commander  of  the 
Enemy's  Party  himfelf,  fome  Time  after, 
while  I  was  a  Prifoner.  And  Captain  Ma- 
boniy  who  was  prefent  when  the  News 
was  brought,  that  a  few  Spanijh  Dragoons 
had  defeated  an  Englijh  Regiment,  which 
was  this  under  Hateman^  protefted  to  me, 
that  the  Duke  of  'Berwick  turn'd  pale  at 
the  Relation-  and  when  they  offer'd  to 
bring  the  Colours  before  him,  he  would 
not  fo  much  as  fee  them.  A  little  before 
the  Duke  went  to  Supper,  Bateman  him* 
felf  was  brought  to  him,  but  the  Duke 
turn'd  away  from  him  without  any  further 
Notice  than  coldly  faying,  that  he  thought 
he  was  very  ftrangely  taken.  The  Wags  of 
the  Army  made  a  thorough  jeft  of  him,  and 

faid 


roo8  ] 

faid  his  military  Conduct  was  of  a  piece 
with  his  Oeconomy,  having  two  Days  be- 
fore this  March,  fent  his  young  handfome 
Wife  into  England,  under  the  Guardianfhip 
of  the  young  Chaplain  of  the  Regiment. 

April  15.  In  the  Year  1707,  being 
Eafter  Monday,  we  had  in  the  Morning  a 
flying  Report  in  J  lie  ant,  that  there  had 
been  the  Day  before  a  Battle  at  Almanza, 
between  the  Army  under  the  Command  of 
the  Duke  of  "Berwick,  and  that  of  the 
Englijh,  under  Lord  Galway,  in  which  the 
latter  had  fuffer'd  an  entire  Defeat.  We 
at  firft  gave  no  great  Credit  to  it :  But,  alas, 
we  were  too  foon  wofully  convinced  of  the 
Truth  of  it,  by  Numbers  that  came  flying 
to  us  from  the  conquering  Enemy.  Then 
indeed  we  were  fatisfied  of  Truths,  too  dif- 
ficult before  to  be  credited.  But  as  I  was 
not  prefent  in  that  calamitous  Battle,  I 
fhall  relate  it,  as  I  received  it  from  an  Offi- 
cer then  in  the  Duke's  Army. 

To  bring  the  Lord  Galway  to  a  Battle, 
in  a  Place  raoft  commodious  for  his  pur- 
pofe,  the  Duke  made  ufe  of  this  Strata- 
gem :  He  ordered  two  Jrijhmen,  both  Offi- 
cers, to  make  their  way  over  to  the  Enemy 
as  Deferters;  putting  this  Story  in  their 
Mouths,  that  the  Duke  of  Orleans  was  in 
a  full  March  to  join  the  Duke  of  Berwick 
with  twelve  thoufand  Men  ;  that  this  would 
be  done  in  two  Days,  and  that  then  they 

would 


[  209  ] 

would  find  out  the  Lord  Galway,  and  force 
him  to  Fight,  where-ever  they  found  him. 

Lord  Galway,  who  at  this  Time  lay  Battle  of 
before  Villena,    receiving  this  Intelligence  Alman2a' 
from  thofe    well  inftru&ed   Defehers,   im- 
mediately rais'd  the  Siege  •  with  a  Refla- 
tion, by  a  hafty   March,  to  force  the  E- 
nemy  to  Battle,  before  the  Duke  of  Orleans 
fliould  be  able  to  join  the  Duke  of  Berwick. 
To  effect  this,  after  a  hard  March  of  three 
long  Spanijh  Leagues  in  the  heat  of  the  Day,* 
he  appears  a  little  after  Noon  in  the  face  of 
the  Enemy  with  his  fatiegu'd  Forces.     Glad 
and  rejoyc'd  at  the  Sight,  for  he  found  his 
Plot  had  taken  •   Berwick,   the  better  to 
receive  him,  draws  up  his  Army  in  a  half 
Moon,  placing  at  a  pretty  good  Advance 
three  Regiments  to  make  up  the  Centre^ 
with  e^prefs  Order  ,  neverthelefs,    to  re- 
treat at  the  very  firft  Charge.     All  which 
was  punctually  obferv'd,  and  had  its  defired 
Effedt  :  For  the  three   Regiments,   at  the 
firft  Attack  gave  way,  and  feemingly  fled 
towards  their  Camp ;  theEngliJb,  after  their 
cuftomary    Manner,    purfuing    them  with 
Shouts  and   Hollowings.     As  foon  as  the    „. 
Duke  of  "Berwick  perceiv'd  his  Trap  had 
taken,  he  order'd  his  right  and  left  Wings 
to  clofe  i  by  which  Means,  he  at  once  cut 
off  from  the  reft  of  their  Army  all  thofe  who 
had  fo  eagerly  piirfu'd  the  imaginary  Runa- 
ways,    la  fhort,  the  Rout  was  total,  and 
P  the 


[  2I°  3 

the  moft  fatal  Blow  that  ever  the  Englijh  re- 
ceiv'd  during  the  whole  War  with  Spain. 
Nor3  as  it  is  thought,  with  a  great  probabi- 
lity of  Reafon,  had  thofe  Troops  that  made 
their  Retreat  to  the  Top  of  the  Hills,  under 
Major  General  Shrimpton,  met  with  any  bet- 
ter Fate  than  thofe  on  the  Plain  ,  had 
the  Spaniards  had  any  other  General  in  the 
Command  than  the  Duke  of  "Berwick  ; 
whofe  native  Sympathy  gave  a  check  to  the 
Ardour  of  a  vi&orious  Enemy.  And  this 
was  the  fenfe  of  the  Spaniards  themfelves 
after  the  Battle.  Verifying  herein  that  no- 
ble Maxim,  That  ViUory  to  generous  Minds 
is  only  an  Inducement  to  Moderation. 

T  h  e  Day  after  this  fatal  Battle  (  which 
gave  occafion  to  a  Spanijh  piece  of  Wit, 
that  the  Englijh  General  had  routed  the 
Trench)  the  Duke  of  Orleans  did  arrive 
indeed  in  the  Camp^  but  with  an  Army  of 
only  fourteen  Attendants. 

The  fatal  Effe&s  of  this  Battle  were  foon 
made  vifible,  and  to  none  more  than  thofe 
in  Jlicant.  The  Enemy  grew  every  Day 
more  and  more  troublefome ;  vifiting  us  in 
Parties  more  boldly  than  before ;  and  often 
hovering  about  us  fo  very  near,  that  with 
our  Cannon  we  could  hardly  teach  'em  to 
keep  a  proper  Diftance.  Gorge  the  Gover- 
nor of  Jlicant  being  recall'd  into  England, 
Major  General  Richards  was  by  King 
Charles  appointed  Governor  in  his  Place. 

He 


[*»  ] 

He  was  a  Roman  Catholick,  and  very  much 
belov'd  by  the  Natives  on  that  Account,* 
tho'  to  give  him  his  due,  he  behaved  him* 
felf  extremely  well  in  all  other  Refpe&s. 
It  was  in  his  Time,  that  a  Defign  was  laid 
of  furprizing  Guar  darner  e^  a  fmall  Sea-port 
Town  in  Murda:  But  the  military  Bifhop 
(for  he  was  in  a  literal  Senfe  excellent  tarn 
Marte,  quam  Mercurio^  among  his  many 
others  Exploits,  by  a  timely  Expedition, 
prevented  that. 

Governor   Richards^  my    Pofl:  being 
always  in  the  Caftie,  had  fent  to  defire  me 
to  give  notice  whenever  I  faw  any  Parties 
of  the  Enemy   moving.     Purfuant  to  this 
Order,  difcovcring  one  Morning  a  confider- 
able  body  of  Horfe  towards  Eljha^  I  went 
down  into  the  Town,  and  told  the  Gover- 
nor what  I  had  feen  $  and  without  any  de- 
lay he  gave  his  Orders,  that  a  Captain  with 
threefcore  Men  fhould  attend  me  to  an  old 
Houfe  about  a  Mile  diflar.ce.     As  foon  as 
we  had  got  into  it,  I  fet  about  barricading 
all  the  open  Places,  and  Avenues,  and  put 
my  Men  in  a  Pofture  ready  to  receive  an 
Enemy,  as  fcon  as  he  fhould  appear  ;  upon 
which  the  Captain,  as  a   feint,  ordered  a 
few  of  his  Men  to  thew  ;hemfelves  on  a 
rifing  Ground  juft  before  the  Houfe.     But 
we  had  like  to  have  caught  a  Tartar  :  For 
tho1  the  Enemy  took  the  Train  I  had  laid, 
and  on  light  of  our  fmall  Body  on  the  Hill, 

P  2  fent 


[    212    ] 

fcnt  a  Party  from  their  greater  Body  to  in- 
tercept them,  before  they  could  reach  the 
Town ;    yet  the   Sequel  prov'd ,    we  had 
miftaken  their  Number,and  it  foon  appeared 
to  be  much  greater  than  we  at  firft  imagin'd. 
However  our  Out-fcouts,  as  I  may  call  em, 
got  fafe  into  the  Houfe  3-  and  on  the  Appear- 
ance of  the  Party,  we  let  fly  a  full  Volly, 
which  laid  dead  on  the  Spot  three  Men  and 
one  Horfe.      Hereupon   the   whole   Body 
made  up  to  the  Houfe,  but  flood  a-loof  up* 
on  the  Hill  without  reach  of  our  Shot.  We 
foon  faw  our  Danger  from  the  number  of 
the  Enemy :  And  well  for  us  it  was,  that 
the  watchful  Governor  had  taken  notice  of 
it,  as  well  as  we  in  theHoufe,    For  ob- 
ferving  us  furrounded  with  the  Enemy,  and 
by  a  Power  fo  much  fuperior ,  he  marched 
himfelf  with  a  good  part  of  the  Garrifon  to 
our  Relief.  The  Enemy  flood  a  little  time  as 
if  they  would  receive  'em  ;  but  uponfecond 
thoughts  they  retir'd ;  and  to  our  no  little 
Joy  left  us  at  Liberty  to  come  out  of  the 
Houfe  and  join  the  Garrifon. 

Scarce  a  Day  pafs'd  but  we  had  fome 
vifits  of  the  like  kind  attended  fometimes 
with  Rencounters  of  this  Nature ;  in  lb 
much  that  there  was  hardly  any  ftirring  out 
in  Safety  for  fmall  Parties,  tho'  never  fo 
little  away.  There  was  within  a  little 
Mile  of  the  Town,  an  old  Vineyard,  envi- 
roned with  a  lofe  ftone  Wall :    An  Officer 

and 


and  I  made  an  Agreement  to  ride  thither  for 
an  Airing.  We  did  fo,  and  after  a  little 
riding,  it  came  into  my  Head  to  put  a  Fright 
upon  the  Officer.  And  very  lucky  for  us 
both  was  that  unlucky  Thought  of  mine ; 
pretending  to  fee  a  Party  of  the  Enemy 
make  up  to  us,  I  gave  him  the  Alarm,  fet 
Spurs  to  my  Horfe,  and  rid  as  faft  as  Legs 
could  carry  me.  The  Officer  no  way  bated 
of  his  Speed  ;  and  we  had  fcarce  got  out  of 
the  Vineyard  but  my  Jeft  proved  Earneft, 
twelve  of  the  Enemy's  Horfe  purfuing  us  to 
the  very  Gates  of  the  Town.  Nor  could  I 
ever  after  prevail  upon  my  Fellow-Traveller 
to  believe  that  he  ow'd  his  Efcapeto  Merri- 
ment more  than  Speed. 

Soon  after  my  Charge,  as  to  the' Forti- 
fications, was  pretty  well  over,  I  obtained 
Leave  of  the  Governor  to  be  abfent  for  a 
Fortnight,  upon  fome  Affairs  of  my  own  at 
Valencia.  On  my  Return  from  whence,  at 
a  Town  calfd  Venij[ay  I  met  two  Officers  of 
an  Englijh  Regiment,  going  to  the  Place 
from  whence  I  laft  came.  They  told  me, 
after  common  Congratulations,  that  they 
had  left  Major  Boyd,  at  a  little  Place  call'd 
Capel,  hiring  another.  Mule,  that  he  rode 
on  thither  having  tir'd  and  fail'd  him;  de- 
firing  withal,  that  if  I  met  him,  I  would 
let  him  know  that  they  would  ftay  for  him 
at  that  Place.  I  had  another  Gentleman  in 
my  Company,  and  we  had  travelled  on  not 
P  3  above 


[  2H  ] 

above  a  League  further,  whence,  at  a  little 
Diftance,    we  were  both  furpnYd  with  a 
Sight  that  feem'd  to  have  fet  all  Art  at  de- 
fiance, and   wTas  too  odd  for  any  thing  in 
Nature.    It  appear'd  all  in  red,  and  to  move  5 
but  fo  very  flowly,  that  if  we  had  not  made 
more  way   to  that  than  it  did  to  us,  we 
fhould  have  made  it  a  Day's  Journey  be- 
fore we  met  it.      My  Companion  could  as 
little  tell  what  to  make  of  it  as  I  ,•  and,  in- 
deed, the  nearer  it  came  the  more  mon- 
ftrous   it'feem'd,    having  nothing   of  the 
Tokens  of  Man,  either  Walking,  Riding, 
or  in  any  Pofture  whatever.     Atlaft,  com- 
ing up  with  this  ftrange  Figure  of  a  Creature 
(for  now  we  found  it  was  certainly  iuch) 
what,  or  rather  who,  fhould  it  prove  to  be, 
but  Major  Hoy  ell  He  was  a  Perfon  of  him- 
felf  far  from  one  of  the  leaft  Proportion,  and 
mounted  on  a  poor  little  Afs,  v/ith  all  his 
warlike  Accoutrements  upon  it,  you  will  al- 
low muft  make  a  Figure  almoft  as  odd  as 
one  of  the  old  Centaurs.      The  Morocco 
Saddle  that  cover'd  the  Afs  wTas  of  Burden 
enough  for  the  Bead  without  its  Matter  5 
and  the  additional  Holders  and  Piftols  made 
it   much  more  weighty.     Neverthelefs,    a 
Curb  Bridle  of  the  largeft  Size  cover'd  his 
little  Head,  and  a  long  red  Cloak,  hang- 
ing down  to  the  Ground,  cover'd  Jack- 
hoots,  Afs,  Matter  and  all.     In  fhort,  my 
Companion  and  lD  after  we  could  fpeciti- 

calljr 


C*'5] 

cally  declare  it  to  be  a  Man,  agreed  we 
never  favv  a  Figure  fo  comical  in  all  our 
Lives.  When  we  had  merrily  greeted  our 
Major  (for  a  Cynick  could  not  have  forbora 
Laughter)  He  excus'd  all  as  well  as  he 
could,  by  faying  he  could  get  no  other 
Beaft.  After  which,  delivering  our  MefTage3 
and  condoling  with  him  for  his  prefent 
Mounting,  and  wiftiing  him  better  at  his 
next  Quarter?,  he  fettled  into  his  old  Pace^ 
and  we  into  ours,  and  parted. 

We  lay  that  Night  at  Altea,  famous  for 
its  Bay  for  Ships  to  water  at.  It  (lands  on 
a  high  Hill ;  and  is  adorn'd.,  not  defended, 
with  an  old  Fort. 

Thence  we  came  to  Alicant,   where 
having  now  been  a  whole  Year,  and  having 
effected  what  was  held  neceflary,   I  once 
more  prevailed  upon  the  Governor  to  per-* 
xnit  me   to  take   another   journey.      The 
Lord  Galway  lay  at  Tarraga,  while  Le- 
rida  lay  under  the  Siege  of  the  Duke  of 
Orleans ;  and  having  fome  Grounds  of  Ex- 
pectation given  me,  while  he  was  at  Alt- 
cant)  I  refolv'd   at  leaft  to  demonftrate  I 
was  ftill  living.     The   Governor  favour'd 
me  with  Letters,  not  at  all  to  my  Difad- 
vantage  ;  fo  taking  Ship  for  Barcelona,  juft 
at  our  putting  into  the  Harbour,  we  met 
with  the  Englijh  Fleet,  on  its  Return  from 
the  Expedition  to  Tottlm.  under  Sir  Cloudjly 
Shovel 

.     P4  \ 


[  ai6] 

I  stayed  but  very  few  Days  at  Barce- 
lona^ and  then  proceeded  on  my  intended 
Journey  to   Tarraga ;    arriving   at  which 
Place  I  deliver'd  my    Packet  to  the  Lord 
Galway^  who  receiv'd  me  with, very  great 
Civility  •  and  to  double  it,  acquainted  me 
^t  the  fame  time,  that  the  Governor  of  Ali- 
cant  had  wrote  very  much  in  my  Favour : 
But  though  it  was  a  known   Part   of  that 
r^oble  Lord's  Character,  that  the  firft  Im- 
preffion    was   generally    ftrongeft,     I  had 
Reafon   foon  after  to   clofe   with  another 
Saying,    equally  true,  That  general  Rules 
always  admit  of  feme  Exception.     While  I 
was  here  we  had  News  of  the  taking  of  the 
Town  of  Lerida ;    the    Prince    of  Hejje 
(Brother  to  that  brave  Prince  who  loft  his 
Life   before  Monjouick)   retiring   into  the 
Caftle  with  the  Garrifon,  which  he  bravely 
defended  a  long  time  after. 

When  I  was  thus  attending  my  Lord 
Gahjcay  at  Tarraga ,  he  receiv'd  Intelli- 
gence that  the  Enemy  had  a  Defign  to  lay 
biege  to  T)enia ;  whereupon  he  gave  me 
Orders  to  repair  there  as  Engineer.  After 
I  had  receiv'd  my  Orders,  and  taken  Leave 
of  his '  Lprdfliip,  I  fet  out,  refolving,  fince 
it  was  left  to  my  Choice,  to  go  by  way  of 
'Barcelona ,  and  there  take  Shipping  for 
the  Place  of  my  Station  •  by  which  I  pro- 
pos'd  to.  fave  more  time  than  would  allow 
me  a  full  Opportunity  of  viliting  Montferat^ 

a  Place 


C  **}  J 

a  Place  I  had  heard  much  Talk  of,  which 
had  fiird  me  with  a  longing  Defire  to  fee  it. 
To  fay  Truth,  I  had  been  told  fuch  extra- 
vagant Things  of  the  Place,  that  I  could 
hardly  impute  more  than  one  half  of  it  to 
any  thing  but  SpaniJJj  Rhodomontado\  the 
Vice  of  extravagant  Exaggeration  being  too 
natural  to  that  Nation. 

MONTSERJT  is  a  rifing  lofty  Defend* 
Hill,  in  the  very  Middle  of  afpacious  Plain,  £ra^ont" 
in  the  Principality  of  Catalonia,  about  feven 
Leagues  diftant  from  "Barcelona  to  the  Weft- 
ward,  fomewhat  inclining  to  the  North. 
At  the  very  firft  Sight,  its  Oddnefs  of  Fi- 
gure promifes  fomething  extraordinary  ;  and 
even  at  that  Diftance  the  Profped:  makes 
fomewhat  of  a  grand  Appearance :  Hun- 
dreds of  afpiring  Pyramids  prefenting  them- 
felves  all  at  once  to  the  Eye,  look,  if  I 
may  be  allowed  fo  to  fpeak,  like  a  little  pe- 
trify'd  Forre,ft;  or,  rather,  like  the  awful 
Ruins  of  fome  capacious  Structure,  the  La- 
bour of  venerable  Antiquity.  The  nearer 
you  approach  the  more  it  affe&s ;  but  till 
you  are  very  near  you  can  hardly  form  in 
your  Mind  any  thing  like  what  you  find  it 
when  you  come  clofe  to  it.  Till  juft  upon 
it  you  would  imagine  it  a  perfed  Hili  of 
Steeples  •  but  fo  intermingled  with  Trees  of 
Magnitude,  as  well  as  Beauty,  that  your 
Admiration  can  never  be  tir'd,  or  your  Cu- 
riofity  forfeited.  Such  I  found  it  on  my  Ap- 
proach ; 


[  "8  ] 

proach  ;  yet  much  lefs  than  what  I  found  i% 
was  fo  foon  as  I  enter'd  upon  the  very  Pre- 
mises. 

Now  that  ftupendious  Clufter  of 'Pyra- 
mids aife&ed  me  in  a  Manner  different  to  all 
before  ;  and  I  found  it  fo  finely  group'd  with 
verdant  Groves,  and  here  and  there  inter- 
fpers'd  with  afpiring,  but  folitary  Trees, 
that  it  no  way  leflened  my  Admiration, 
while  it  increafed  my  Delight.  Thofe  Trees, 
which  I  call  folitary,  as  (landing  fingle,  in 
opposition  to  the  numerous  Groves,  which 
are  ciofe  and  thick  (as  I  obferv'd  when  I 
afcended  to  take  a  View  of  the  feveral 
Cells)  rife  generally  out  of  the  very  Clefts 
of  the  main  Rock,  with  nothing,  to  Ap- 
pearance, but  a  Soil  or  Bed  of  Stone  for 
their  Nurture.  But  though  fome  few  Na- 
turalifts  may  affert,  that  the  Nitre  in  the 
Stone  may  afford  a  due  Proportion  of  Nou- 
rifhment  to  Trees  and  Vegetables ;  thefe, 
in  my  Opinion,  were  all  too  beautiful,  their 
Bark,  Leaf,  and  Flowers,  carry 'd  too  fair 
a  Face  of  Health,  to  allow  them  even  to  be 
the  Fofter-children  of  Rock  and  Stone  only. 

Upon  this  Hill,  or  if  you  pleafe,  Grove 
of  Pvocks,  are  thirteen  Hermits  Cells,  the 
laft  of  which  lies  near  the  very  Summit, 
You  gradually  advance  to  every  one,  from 
Bottom  to  lop,  by  a  winding  Afcentj 
Vv  hich  to  do  would  otherwife  be  impoilible, 
by  rcafon  of  the  Stccpnefs  •  but  though  there 

is 


[    219    ] 

is  a  winding  Afcent  to  every  Cell,  as  I  have 
faid,  I  would  yet  fet  at  defiance  the  mo.ft 
obfervant,  if  a  Stranger,  to  find  it  feafible 
to  vifit  them  in  order,  if  not  precaution'dto 
follow  the  poor  Sorigo,  or  old  Afs,  that 
with  Paniers  hanging  on  each  Side  of  him, 
mounts  regularly,  and  daily,  up  to  every, 
particular  Cell.  The  Manner  is  as  fol- 
lows : 

In  the  Paniers  there  are  thirteen  Parti- 
tions ;  one  for  every  Cell.  At  the  Hour  ap- 
pointed, the  Servant  having  placd  the  Pa- 
niers on  his  Back,  the  Afs,  of  himfelf,  goes 
to  the  Door  of  the  Convent  at  the  very  Foot 
of  the  Hill,  where  every  Partition  is  fup- 
ply'd  with  their  feveral  Allowances  of  Vi- 
duals  and  Wine.  Which,  as  foon  as  he 
has  receiv'd,  without  any  further  Atten- 
dance, or  any  Guide,  he  mounts  and  takes 
the  Cells  gradually,  in  their  due  Courfe, 
till  he  reaches  the  very  uppermoft.  Where 
having  difcharg'd  his  Duty,  he  defcends 
the  fame  Way,  lighter  by  the  Load  he 
carry'd  up.  This  the  poor  flupid  Drudge 
fails  not  to  do,  Day  and  Night,  at  the 
ftated  Hours. 

Two  Gentlemen,  who  had  join'd  me  on 
the  Road,  alike  led  by  Curiofity,  feem'd 
alike  delighted,  that  the  End  of  it  was  fo 
well  anfwer'd.  I  could  eafily  difcover  in 
their  Countenances  a  Satisfaction,  which3  if 
it  did  not  give  a  Sanation  to  my  own,  much 

•  con- 


[  aao  ] 

confirm' d  it,  while  they  feem'd  to  allow  with 
me  that  thefe  reverend  Solitaries  were  truly- 
happy  Men  :  I  then  thought  them  fuch  ;  and 
a  thoufand  times  fince,  reflecting  within  my 
felf,  have  wifh'd,  bating  their  Errors,  and 
lefTer  Superftitions,  my  felf  as  happily  fta- 
tion'd :  For  what  can  there  be  wanting  to 
a  happy  Life,  where  all  things  neceflary  are 
provided  without  Care  ?  Where  the  Days, 
without  Anxiety  or  Troubles,  may  be  grate- 
fully parted  away,  with  an  innocent  Va- 
riety of  diverting  and  pleafing  Obje&s,  and 
where  their  Sleeps  and  Slumbers  are  never 
interrupted  with  any  thing  more  offenfive, 
than  murmuring  Springs,  natural  Cafcades, 
or  the  various  Songs  of  the  pretty  feather'd 
Quirifters. 

But  their  Courtefy  to  Strangers  is  no  lefs 
engaging  than  their  Solitude.  A  reclufe 
Life,  for  the  Fruits  of  it,  generally  fpeaking, 
produces  Morofenefs  $  Pharifaical  Pride  too 
often  fours  the  Temper ;  and  a  miftaken  O- 
pinion  of  their  own  Merit  too  naturally  leads 
fuch  Men  into  a  Contempt  of  others :  But 
on  the  contrary,  thefe  good  Men  (for  I 
mu ft  call  them  as  I  thought  them)  feem'd 
to  me  the  very  Emblems  of  Innocence ;  fo 
ready  to  oblige  others,  that  at  the  fame  In- 
ftant  they  feem'd  laying  Obligations  upon 
themfelves.  This  is  felf-evident,  in  that 
Affability  and  Complaifance  they  ufe  in 
ihewing  the  Rarities  of  their  fevcral  Cells ; 
i  where. 


[ 22'  ] 

where,  for  fear  you  fhould  flip  any  thing 
worthy  Obfervation,  they  endeavour  to  in- 
flil  in  you  as  quick  a  Propensity  of  asking, 
as  you  find  in  them  a  prompt  Alacrity  in 
anfwering  fuch  Queftions  of  Curiofity  as 
their  own  have  infpir'd. 

In  particular,  I  remember  one  of  thofe 
reverend  old  Men,  when  we  were  taking 
Leave  at  the  Door  of  his  Cell,  to  which 
out  of  his  great  Civility  he  accompany'd  us, 
finding  by  the  Air  of  our  Faces,  as  well  as 
our  Expreilions,  that  we  thought  our  felves 
pleafingly  entertain'd ;  to  divert  us  afrefli, 
advanc'd  a  few  Paces  from  the  Door,  when 
giving  a  Whittle  with  his  Mouth,  a  fur- 
prizing  Flock  of  pretty  little  Birds,  varie- 
gated, and  of  different  Colours,  immediate- 
ly flock'd  around  him.  Here  you  fhould 
fee  fome  alighting  upon  his  Shoulders,  fome 
on  his  awful  Beard  ;  others  took  Refuge  on 
his  fnow-like  Head,  and  many  feeding,  and 
more  endeavouring  to  feed  out  of  his  Mouth; 
each  appearing  emulous  and  under  an  inno- 
cent Contention,  how  beft  to  exprefs  their 
Love  and  Refpeft  to  their  no  lefs  pleafed 
Mafler. 

Nor  did  the  other  Cells  labour  under  any 
Deficiency  of  Variety  :  Every  one  boafling 
in  fome  particular,  that  might  diftinguifh  it 
in  fomething  equally  agreeable  and  enter- 
taining. Neverthelefs ,  cryftal  Springs 
fpouting  from  the  folid  Rocks  were,  from 

the 


the  higheft  to  the  loweft,  common  to  them 
all  $  and,  in  molt  of  them,  they  had  little 
brafs  Cocks,  out  of  which,  when  turn'd, 
iffud  the  moft  cool  and  cryftalline  Flows  of 
excellent  pure  Water.  And  yet  what  more 
affe&ed  me,  and  which  I  found  near  more 
Cells  than  one,  was  the  natural  Cafcades 
of  the  fame  tranfparent  Element ;  thefe 
falling  from  one  Rock  to  another,  in  that 
warm,  or  rather  hot  Climate,  gave  not 
more  delightful  Aftonifliment  to  the  Eye, 
than  they  afforded  grateful  Refreshment  to 
the  whole  Man.  The  Streams  falling  from 
thefe,  foften,  from  a  rougher  tumultuous 
Noife,  into  fuch  affe&ing  Murmurs,  by 
Diftance,  the  Intervention  of  Groves,  or 
neighbouring  Rocks,  that  it  were  impollible 
to  fee  or  hear  them  and  not  be  charm'd. 

Neither  are  thofe  Groves  grateful  only 
in  a  beautiful  Verdure ;  Nature  renders  them 
otherwife  delightful,  in  loading  them  with 
Clufters  of  Berries  of  a  perfect  fcarlet  Co- 
lour, which,  by  a  beautiful  Intermixture, 
ftrike  the  Eye  with  additional  Delight.  In 
fliort,  it  might  nonplus  a  Perfon  of  the 
niceft  Tafte,  to  diftinguifh  or  determine, 
whether  the  Neatn-efs  of  their  Cells  within, 
or  the  beauteous  Varieties  without,  moft 
exhauft  his  Admiration.  Nor  is  the  Whole, 
in  my  Opinion,  a  little  advantag  d  by  the 
frequent  View  of  fome  of  thofe  pyramidical 
Pillars,  which  feem,  as  weary  of  their  own 

Weight, 


[  «3  3 

Weight,  to  recline  and  feek  Support  from 
others  in  the  Neighbourhood. 

When  I  mentioned  the  outfide  Beauties 
of  their  Cells,  I  muft  be  thought  to  have  for- 
got to  particularize  the  glorious  Profpe&s 
prefented  to  your  Eye  from  every  one  of 
them  -,  but  efpecially  from  that  neareft  the 
Summit.  A  Profpeft,  by  reafon  of  the 
Purity  of  the  Air,  fo  extenfive,  and  fo  very 
entertaining,  that  to  dilate  upon  it  properly 
to  one  that  never  faw  it,  would  baffle  Cre- 
dit,-  and  naturally  to  depaint  it,  would 
confound  Invention.  I  therefore  fliall  only 
fay,  that  on  the  Mediterranean  Side,  after 
an  agreeable  Interval  of  fome  fair  Leagues, 
it  will  fet  at  defiance  the  ftrongeft  Opticks  ; 
and  although  'Barcelona  bounds  it  on  the 
Land,  the  Eyes  are  feafted  with  the  De- 
lights of  fuch  an  intervening  Champion 
(where  beauteous  Nature  does  not  only 
fmile,  but  riot)  that  the  Senfe  muft  be  very 
temperate,  or  very  weak,  that  can  be  foon 
or  eafily  fatisfy'd. 

Having  thus  taken  a  View  of  all  their 
refreshing  Springs,  their  grateful  Groves, 
and  folitary  Shades  under  fingle  Trees, 
whofe  Clutters  prov'd  that  even  Rocks  were 
grown  fruitful ;  and  having  ran  over  all 
the  Variety  of  Pleafures  in  their  feveral 
pretty  Cells,  decently  fet  off  with  Gardens 
round  them,  equally  fragrant  and  beautiful, 
we  were  brought  down  again  to  the  Con- 
2  vent, 


vent,  which,  though  on  a  fmall  Afcenf, 
lies  very  near  the  Foot  of  this  terreftrial  Pa- 
radife,  there  to  take  a  Survey  of  their 
fumptuous  Hall ,  much  more  fumptuous 
Chapel  ,  and  its  adjoining  Repofitory ; 
and  feaft  our  Eyes  with  Wonders  of  a  dif- 
ferent Nature ;  and  yet  as  entertaining  as 
any,  or  all,  we  had  feen  before. 

Immediately  on  our  Defcent,  a  Prieft 
prefented  himfelf  at  the  Door  of  the  Con- 
vent, ready  to  ftiew  us  the  hidden  Rarities. 
And  though,  as  I  underftood,  hardly  a  Day 
pafTes  without  the  Refort  of  fome  Strangers 
to  gratify  their  Curiofity  with  the  Wonders 
of  the  Place ,-  yet  is  there,  on  every  fuch 
Occafion,  a  fuperior  Concourfe  of  Natives 
ready  to  fee  over  again,  out  of  meer  Bigo- 
try and  Superftition,  what  they  have  feen, 
perhaps,  a  hundred  times  before.  I  could 
not  avoid  taking  notice,  however,  that  the 
Prieft  treated  thofe  conftant  Vifitants  with 
much  lefs  Ceremony,  or  more  Freedom,  if 
you  pleafe,  than  any  of  the  Strangers  of 
what  Nation  foever  <  or,  indeed,  he  feem'd 
to  take  as  much  Pains  to  difoblige  thofe,  as 
he  did  Pleafure  in  obliging  us. 

The  Hall  was  neat,  large  and  (lately  - 
but  being  plain  and  unadorn'd  with  more 
than  decent  Decorations,  fuitable  to  fuch  a 
Society,  I  haften  to  the  other* 

When  wc  entered  the  Chapel ,  our 
Eyes  were  immediately  attracted  by  the 

Image 


[  *25  1 

image  of  our  Lady  of  Montferat  (as  they 
call  it)  which  Hands  over  the  Altar-Piece. 
It  is  about  the  natural  Stature ;  but  as  black 
and  fhining  as  Ebony  it  felf.  Moft  would 
imagine  it  made  of  that  Material  •  though 
her  Retinue  and  Adorers  will  allow  nothing 
of  the  Matter.  On  the  contrary,  Tradi- 
tion5  which  with  them  is,  on  fome  Occa- 
fions,  more  than  tantamount  to  Religion, 
has  affur'd  therr^  and  they  relate  it  as  un- 
doubted Matter  of  Fad,  that  her  prefent 
Colour,  if  I  may  fo  call  it,  proceeded  from 
her  Concealment,  in  the  Time  of  the  Moors, 
between  thofe  two  Rocks  on  which  the 
Chapel  is  founded  ;  and  that  her  long  lying 
in  that  difmal  Place  chang'd  her  once  lover- 
ly White  into  its  prefent  oppofite.  Would 
hot  a  Heretick  here  be  apt  to  fay,  That  it 
was  great  pity  that  an  Image  which  ftill 
boafts  the  Power  of  a&ing  fo  many  Miracles, 
could  no  better  conferve  her  own  Com- 
plexion ?  At  leaft  it  muft  be  allow'd,  even 
by  a  good  Catholick^  to  carry  along  with 
it  Matter  of  Reproach  to  the  fair  Ladies, 
Natives  of  the  Country,  for  their  unnatural 
and  exceflive  Affe&ion  of  adulterating,  if 
not  defacing,  their  beautiful  Faces,  with 
the  ruinating  Dauberies  of  Carmine? 

As  the  Cuftom  of  the  Place  is  (which  is 

likewife  allow'd  to  be  a  diftinguifhing  Piece 

of  Civility  to  Strangers)  when  we  approach 

the  black  Lady  (who,  I  fliould  have  told 

0,  yolii 


[  *i6  ] 

you,  bears  a  Child  in  her  Arms ;  but  whe- 
ther maternally  Black,  or  of  the  Mulatto 
Kind,  I  proteft  I  did  not  mind)  the  Prieft, 
in  great  Civility,  offers  you  her  Arm  to  fa- 
lute  ;  at  which  Juncture,  I,  like  a  true  blue 
Proteftant,  miftaking  my  Word  of  Com- 
mand, fell  foul  on  the  fair  Lady's  Face, 
The  Difpleafure  in  his  Countenance  (for  he 
took  more  Notice  of  the  Rudenefs  than  the 
good  Lady  her  felf )  foon  convinc'd  me  of 
my  Error :  However,  as  a  greater  Token 
of  his  Civility,  having  admitted  no  Spa- 
niards along  with  my  Companions  and  me, 
it  pafs'd  off  the  better  ;  and  his  after  Civi- 
lities manifefted,  that  he  was  willing  to  re- 
form my  Ignorance  by  his  Complaisance. 

To  demonftrate  which,  upon  my  telling 
him  that  I  had  a  Set  of  Beads,  which  I 
muft  entreat  him  to  confecrate  for  me,  he 
readily,  nay  eagerly  comply'd  ,-  and  having 
hung  them  on  her  Arm  for  the  Space  of 
about  half,  or  fomewhat  fliort  of  a  whole 
Minute,  he  returned  me  the  holy  Baubles 
with  a  great  deal  of  Addrefs  and  moft  evi- 
dent Satisfadion.     The  Reader  will  be  apt 
to  admire  at  this  curious  Piece  of  Superfti- 
tion  of  mine,  till  I  have  told  him,  that  even 
rigid  Proteftants  have,    in   this  Country, 
thought  it  but  prudent  to  do  the  like  ;  and 
likewife  having  fo  done,  to  carry  them  a- 
bout  their  Perfons,  or  in  their  Pockets  :  For 
Experience  has  convinc'd  us  of  theNeceflity 

of 


[  **7  ] 

of  this  moft  Catholick  Precaution ;  fince 
thofe  who  have  here,  travelling  or  other- 
wife,  come  to  their  Ends,  whether  by  Ac* 
cident,  Sicknefs,  or  the  Courfe  of  Nature,, 
not  having  thefe  fan&ifying  Seals  found  up- 
on them,  have  ever  been  refus'd  Chriftian 
Burial,  under  a  fuperftitious  Imagination, 
that  the  Corps  of  a  Heretick  will  infed 
every  thing  near  it. 

Two  Instances  of  this  kind  fell  within  my 
Knowledge  -y  one  before  I  came  to  Montferat^ 
the  other  after.     The  firft  was  of  one  Slunt^ 
who  had  been  Bombardier  at  Monmiick  ; 
but  being  kilfd  while  we  lay  at  Campilio^ 
a  Prieft,  whom  I  advis'd  with  upon  the 
Matter,  told  me,  that  if  he  fhould  be  buried 
where  any  Corn  grew,  his  Body  would  not 
only  be  taken  up  again,  but  ill  treated,  in 
revenge  of  the  Deftru&ion  of  fo  much  Corn, 
which  the  People  would  on  no  account  be 
perfuaded  to  touchy  for  which  Reafon  we 
took  care  to  have  him  lay'd  in  a  very  deep 
Grave,  on  a  very  barren  Spot  of  Ground: 
The  other  was  of  one  Captain  S%$,  who 
was  a  Prifoner  with  me  on  the  Surrender  of 
'Denia;  who  being  fent,  as  I  was  afterwards, 
to  Saint  Clemente  la  Mancha^  there  dy'd  $ 
and,  as  I  was  inform'd,  tho'  he  was  private- 
ly, and  by  Night,  bury'd  in  a  Corn-Field,  he 
was  taken  out  of  his  Grave  by  thofe  fuper- 
ftitious People,  as  foon  as  ever  they  could 
difcover  the  Place  where  his  Body  was  de- 
Q.  2  pofited* 


pofited.     But  I  return  to  the  Convent  at 
Montferat. 

Out  of  the  Chapel,  behind  the  High- 
Altar,  we  defcended  into  a  fpacious  Room, 
the  Repository  of  the  great  Offerings  made 
to  the  Lady.  Here,  though  I  thought  in 
the  Chapel  it  felf  I  had  feen  the  Riches  of 
the  Univerfq,  I  found  a  prodigious  Quan- 
tity of  more  coftly  Prefents,  the  fuperfti- 
tious  Tribute  of  mod  of  the  Roman-Catho- 
lick  Princes  in  Ezircpe.  Among  a  Multi- 
tude of  others,  they  fhow'd  me  a  Sword 
fet  with  Diamonds,  the  Offering  of  Charles 
the  Third,  then  King  of  Spain,  but  now 
Emperor  of  Germany.  Though  I  muft 
confefs,  being  a  Heretick,  I  could  much 
eafier  find  a  Reafon  for  a  fair  Lady's  pre- 
fenting  fuch  a  Sword  to  a  King  of  Spain, 
than  for  a  King  of  Spain 's  prefenting  fuch  a 
Sword  to  a  fair  Lady :  And  by  the  Motto 
upon  it,  Tulchra  tamen  nigra,  it  wTas  plain 
fuch  was  his  Opinion.  That  Prince  was  fo 
delighted  with  the  Pleafures  of  this  fweet 
Place,  that  he,  as  well  as  I,  fiay'd  as  long 
as  ever  he  could ;  though  neither  of  us  fo 
long  as  either  could  have  wifh'd. 

But  there  was  another  Offering  from  a 
King  of  Portugal,  equally  glorious  and 
coftly ;  but  much  better  adapted  ,•  and 
therefore  in  its  Propriety  eafier  to  be  ac- 
counted for.  That  was  a  Glory  for  the 
Head  of  her  Ladifhip,  every  Ray  of  which 

was 


[  "9  ] 

was  fet  with  Diamonds,  large  at  the  Bot- 
tom, and  gradually  lefTening  to  the  very 
Extremity  of  every  Ray.  Each  Ray  might 
be  about  half  a  Yard  long  ;  and  I  imagin'd 
in  the  Whole  there  might  be  about  one 
Hundred  of  them.  In  fhort,  if  ever  her 
Ladifhip  did  the  Offerer  the  Honour  to  put 
it  on,  I  will,  though  a  Heretick,  venture  to 
aver,  fhe  did  not  at  that  prefent  time  look 
like  a  humane  Creature. 

To  enumerate  the  reft,  if  my  Memory 
would  fuffice,  would  exceed  Belief.  As  the 
upper  Part  was  a  plain  Miracle  of  Nature, 
the  lower  was  a  compleat  Treafury  of  mira- 
culous Art. 

If  you  afcend  from  the  loweft  Cell  to 
the  very  Summit,  the  laft  of  all  the  thirteen, 
you  will  perceive  a  continual  Contention 
between  Pleafure  and  Devotion  $  and  at  laft,. 
perhaps,  find  your  felf  at  a  Lofs  to  decide 
which  deferves  the  Preheminence :  For  you 
are  not  here  to  take  Cells  in  the  vulgar  Ac- 
ceptation, as  the  little  Dormitories  of  foli- 
tary  Monks :  No !  Neatnefs,  Ufe,  and 
Contrivance  appear  in  every  one  of  them  ; 
and  though  in  an  almoft  perfect  Equality, 
yet  in  fuch  Perfection,  that  you  will  find  it 
difficult  to  difcover  in  any  one  of  them  any 
thing  wanting  to  the  Pleafure  of  Life. 

If  you  defcend  to  the  Convent  near  the 

Foot  of  that  venerable  Hill ;  you  may  fee 

more,    much  more  of  the  Riches  of  the 

d  3  World  j 


[  n°  ] 

World;  ,but  lefs,  far  lefs  Appearance  of  a 
celefciai  Treafure.  Perhaps,  it  might  be 
only  the  Sentiment  of  a  Heretick  ;  but  that 
Awe  and  Devotion,  which  I  found  in  my 
Attendant  from  Cell  to  Cell  grew  languid, 
and  loft  in  nieer  empty  Bigotry  and  foggy 
Superftition,  when  1  came  below.  In  fhort, 
there  was  not  a  greater  Difference  in  their 
Heights,  than  in  the  Sentiments  they  in-^ 
fpir'd  me  with. 

Before  I  leave  this  Emblem  of  the  bea- 
tifick  Vifion,  I  muft  correct  fome  thing 
like  a  Miftake,  as  to  the  poor  Bongo.  I 
faid  at  the  Beginning  that  his  Labour  was 
daily  -s  but  the  Sunday  is  to  him  a  Day  of 
reft,  as  it  is  to  the  Hermits,  his  Mafters,  a 
Day  of  Refe&ion.  For  to  fave  the  poor 
faithful  Brute  the  hard  Drudgery  of  that 
Day,  the  thirteen  Hermits,  if  Health  per- 
mit,  defcend  to  their  C(znobmmy  as  they 
call  it ;  that  is,  to  the  Hall  of  the  Convent,- 
where  they  dine  in  common  with  the  Monks 
of  the  Order,  who  are  jBenediffiines. 

After  feven  Days  Variety  of  fuch  in- 
nocent Delight  (the  Space  allow'd  for  the 
Entertainment  of  Strangers)  I  took  my 
Leave  of  this  pr.cifick  Hermitage,  to  purfue 
the  more  boiilerous  Duties  of  my  Callings 
The  Life  of  a  Soldier  is  in  every  Refpeft 
the  full  Aniiihefis  to  that  of  a  Hermit ;  and 
I  know  not,  whether  it  might  not  be  a  Senfe 
cfthat,  which  inipir'd  me  with  very  great 

^Re- 


[  23«  ] 

Relu&ancy  at  parting,  I  confefs,  while 
on  the  Spot,  I  over  and  over  bandy'd  in  my 
Mind  the  Reafons  which  might  prevail 
upon  Charles  the  Fifth  to  relinquifli  his 
Crown ;  and  the  Arguments  on  his  Side 
never  faifd  of  Energy,  when  I  could  per- 
fuade  my  felf  that  this,  or  fome  like  happy 
Retreat,  was  the  Reward  of  abdicated  Env*. 
pire. 

FuLLofthefe  Contemplations  (for  they 
lafted  there)  I  arriv'd  at  "Barcelona  *,  where 
I  found  a  VefTel  ready  to  fail,  on  which  I 
embark'd  for  Dewa>  in  purfuance  of  my; 
Orders*  Sailing  to  the  Mouth  of  the  Medi- 
terranean, no  Place  along  the  Chrijiian 
Shore  affords  a  Profpeft  equally  delightful 
with  the  Caftle  of  Taenia.  It  was  never 
defign'd  for  a  Place  of  great  Strength,  be- 
ing built,  and  firfl;  defign'd,  as  a  Seat  of 
Pleafure  to  the  Great  Duke  ofLerma.  In 
that  Family  it  many  Years  remain'd  $  tho^ 
within  lefs  than  a  Century,  that  with  two; 
other  Dukedoms,  have  devolv'd  upon  the 
Family  of  the  Duke  de  Medina  Celt,  the 
richeft  Subjed  at  this  time  in  all  Spain. 

T>EN1A  was  the  firfl:  Town,  that,  in 
our  Way  to  Barcelona,  declar'd  for  King 
Charles ;  and  was  then  by  his  Order  made 
a  Garrifon.  The  Town  is  but  fmall,  and 
furrounded  with  a  thin  Wall ;  fo  thin  > 
that  I  have  known  a  Cannon-Ball  pierce 


through  it  at  once, 


Q  4  When 


[  a32  ] 

Wh  en  I  arriv'd  at  Denia,  I  found  a 
Spaniard  Governor  of  the  Town,  whofe 
Name  has  flipt  my  Memory;  tho'  his  Be- 
haviour merited  everlafting  Annals.  Major 
Tercival,  an  EngliJJoman%  commanded  in 
the  Caftle,  and  on  my  coming  there,  I  un- 
derftood,  it  had  been  agreed  between  'em, 
that  in  cafe  of  a  Siege,  which  they  appre- 
hended, the  Town  fliould  be  defended 
wholly  by  Spaniards,  and  the  Caftle 
by  the  Englijh, 

I  had  fcarce  been  there  three  Weeks  be- 
fore thofe  Expectations  were  anfwered.  The 
Place  was  inverted  by  Count  D'  Alfelty  and 
Major  General  Maboni  ;  two  Days  after 
which,  they  open'd  Trenches  on  the  Eaft 
Side  of  the  Town.  I  was  neceflitated  upon 
their  fo  doing,  to  order  the  Demolifhment 
offome  Houfes  on  that  Side,  that  I  might 
erect  a  Battery  to  point  upon  their  Trenches, 
the  better  to  annoy  them.  I  did  fo  ;  and 
it  did  the  intended  Service  ;  for  with  that^ 
and  two  others,  which  I  rais'd  upon  the 
Caftle  (from  all  which  we  fir'd  inceflantly, 
and  with  great  Succefs)  the  Befiegers  were 
ilifficiently  incommoded. 

The  Governor  of  the  Town  (a  Spaniard 
as  I  faid  before,  and  with  a  Spanijh  Garri- 
ibn)  behav'd  very  gallantly;  infomuch^ 
that  what  was  faid  of  the  Prince  of  HeJJe*, 
when  he  fo  bravely  defended  Gibraltar 
sgainft  the  joint   Forces    of  Franc*  and 

Spaiih 


C  m  j 

Spain,  might  be  faid  of  him,  that  he  was 
Governor,  Engineer,  Gunner,  and  Bom- 
bardier all  in  one :  For  no  Man  could  ex- 
ceed him,  either  in  Condud  or  Courage; 
nor  were  the  Spaniards  under  him  lefs  va- 
liant or  vigilant :  For  in  cafe  the  Place  was 
taken,  expe&ing  but  indifferent  Quarter, 
they  fought  with  Bravery,  and  defended  the 
Place  to  Admiration. 

The  Enemy  had  anfwer'd  our  Fire  with 
all  the  Ardour  imaginable ;  and  having 
made  a  Breach,  that,  as  we  thought  was 
pra&icable,  a  Storm  was  expe&ed  every 
Hour.  Preparing  againft  which,  to  the 
great  Joy  of  all  the  Inhabitants,  and  the 
Surprize  of  the  whole  Garrifon,  and  with- 
out our  being  able  to  affign  the  leaft  Caufe, 
the  Enemy  fuddenly  raifed  the  Siege,  and 
withdrew  from  a  Place,  which  thofe  within 
imagined  in  great  Danger. 

The  Siege  thus  abdicated  (if  I  may  ufe 
a  modern  Phrafe)  I  was  refolved  to  im- 
prove my  Time,  and  make  the  beft  Provifi- 
on  I  could  againft  any  future  Attack.  To 
that  purpofe  I  made  feveral  new  Fortificati- 
ons, together  with  proper  Cafemets  for 
our  Powder,  all  which  render'd  the  Place 
much  ftronger,  tho'  Time  too  foon  fhow'd 
me  that  Strength  it  felf  rauft  yield  to  For- 
tune. 

Surveying  thofe  Works,  and  myWork- 
men,  I  was  one  Day  (landing  on  the  great 

l  Battery^ 


[  n\  ] 

Battery,  when  cafting  my  Eye  toward  the 
Sarbary  Coaft,  I  obferv'd  an  odd  fort  of 
greenifh    Cloud    making    to    the    Spanijh 
Shoar.     Not  like  other  Clouds  with  Rapi- 
dity or  Swiftnefsj  but  with  a  Motion  fo 
flow,  that  Sight  itfelf  was  a  long  time  be- 
fore  it  would  allow  it  fuch.     At  laft,   it 
came  juft  over  my  Head,  and  interpofing 
between  the  Sun  and  me,  fo  thickned  the 
Air,  that  I  had  loft  the  very  Sight  of  Day, 
At  this  moment  it  had  reach'd  the  Land  ; 
and  tho'  very  near  me  in  my  Imagination,  it 
began  to  diffolve,  and  lofe  of  its  firft  Te- 
nebrity,  when  all  on  a   fudden  there  felt 
fuch  a  vaft  multitude  of  Locufts,  as  exceed- 
ed the  thickeft  ftorm  of  Hail  or  Snow  that  I 
ever  faw.     All  around  me  was  immediately 
cover'd  with  thofe  crauling  Creatures ;  and 
they  yet  continu'd  to  fall  fo  thick,  that  with 
the  fwing   of  my  Cane  I  knock'd   down 
thoufands.     It  is  fcarce  imaginable  the  Ha- 
vock  I  made  in  a  very  little  fpace  of  time; 
much  lefs  conceivable  is  the  horrid  Defla- 
tion which  attended  the  Vifitation   of  thofe 
Jnim'alcula.    There  was  not  in  a  Day  or 
two's  time,  the  leaft  Leaf  to  be  feen  upon 
a  Tree,  nor  any  green  Thing  in  a  Garden. 
Nature  feem'd   buried  in  her  own  Ruins  y 
and  the  vegetable  World  to  be  Supporters 
only  to  her  Monument.     I  never  faw  the 
hardeft  Winter,  in  thofe   Parts,   attended 
%yith  any  equal  Defolatioxu    When,  glut- 
ton 


[  235  1 

ton  like,  they  had  devour'd  all  that  fhould 
have  fuftained  them,  and  the  more  valuable 
Part  of  God's  Creation  (whether  weary, 
with  gorging,  or  over  thirfty  with  devour- 
ing, I  leave  to  Philofophers)  they  made  to 
Ponds,  Brooks,  and  (landing  Pools,  there 
revenging  their  own  Rape  upon  Nature,  up- 
on their  own  vile  Carkaffes.    In  every  of 
thefe  you  might  fee  them  lie  in  Heaps  like 
little  Hills ;  drown'd  indeed,  but  attended 
with  Stenches  fo  noifome,  that  it  gave  the 
diftra&ed  Neighbourhood  too  great  Reafon 
to  apprehend  yet  more  fatal  Confequences. 
A  Peftilential  Infe&ion  is  the  Dread  of  every 
Place,  but  efpecially  of  all  Parts  upon  theMe- 
diterranean.    The  Priefts  therefore  repair'd 
to  a  little  Chapel,  built  in  the  open  Fields, 
to  be  made  ufe  of  on  fuch  like  Occafions, 
there  to  deprecate  the  miferable  Caufe  of 
this  dreadful  Vifitation.     In  a  Week's  time, 
or  there  abouts,  the  Stench  was  over,  and 
every    Thing   but  verdant    Nature   in  its 
priftin  Order. 

Some  few  Months  after  this,  and  about Denia he- 
eight  Months  from  the  former  Siege,  Count^f  ^  * 
Z/  Aljelt  caus'd  Denia  to  be  again  invert-  fahn.  ' 
edj  and  being  then  fenfible  of  all  the  Miftakes 
he  had  before  committed,  he  now  went  about 
hisBufinefs  with  more  Regularity  and  Dis- 
cretion.    The  firft  Thing  he  fet  upon,  and 
it  was  the  wifeft  Thing  he  could  do,  was  to 
cut  off  our  Communication  with  the  Sea. 

This 


[256] 

This  he  did,  and  thereby  obtained  what  he 
much  defired.  Next,  he  caus'd  his  Bat- 
teries to  be  ere&ed  on  the  Weft  fide  of  the 
Town,  from  which  he  ply'd  it  fo  furioufly, 
that  in  five  Days  time  a  pra&icable  Breach 
was  made;  upon  which  they  ftorm'd  and 
took  it.  The  Governor,  who  had  fo  brave- 
ly defended  it  in  the  former  Seige,  fortu- 
nately for  him,  had  been  remov'd  ;  and 
Francis  Valero ,  now  in  his  Place,  was 
made  Prifoner  of  War  with  all  his  Garrifon. 
After  the  taking  the  Town,  they  erect- 
ed Batteries  againft  the  Caftlc,  which  they  • 
kept  ply'd  with  inceffant  Fire,  both  from 
Cannon  and  Mortars.  But  what  moft  of 
all  plagu'd  us,  and  did  us  moft  Mifchief,  was 
the  vaft  fhowers  of  Stones  fent  among  the 
Garrifon  from  their  Mortars.  Thefe,  ter- 
rible in  Bulk  and  Size,  did  more  Execution 
than  all  the  reft  put  together.  The  Gar- 
rifon could  not  avoid  being  fomewhat  dis- 
heartened at  this  uncommon  way  of  Ren- 
counter ;  yet,  to  a  Man,  declar'd  againft 
hearkening  to  any  Propofals  of  Surrender, 
the  Governor  excepted  $  who  having  feleft- 
ed  more  Treafure  than  he  could  properly, 
or  juftly  call  his  own,  was  the  only  Perfon 
that  feem'd  forward  for  fuch  a  Motion.  He 
had  more  than  once  thrown  out  Exprellions 
of  fuch  a  Nature,  but  without  any  Effeft. 
Neverthelefs,  having  at  laft  fecretly  obtain- 
ed a  peculiar  Capitulation  for  himfelf,  Bag, 

and 


[>3td 

and  Baggage  ;  theGarrifon  was  facrificd  to 
his  private  Intereft,  and  bafely  given  up 
Prifoners  of  War.  By  thefe  Means  indeed 
he  faved  his  Money,  but  loft  his  Reputati- 
on; and  foon  after.  Life  it  felf.  And  fure 
every-Body  will  allow  the  latter  lofs  to  be 
leaft  ,  who  will  take  Pains  to  confider, 
that  it  fcreen'd  him  from  the  confequential 
Scrutinies  of  a  Council  of  War,  which  muft 
have  iffued  as  the  juft  Reward  of  his  Deme- 
rits. 

The  Garrifon  being  thus  unaccountably  de- 
livered up  and  made  Prifoners,  were  difper£ 
ed  different  Ways:  Some  into  Caftile,  others 
as  far  as  Oviedo,  in  the  Kingdom  otLeon. 
For  my  own  part,  having  received  a  Contu- 
fion  in  my  Breaft  ;  I  was  under  a  ne- 
ccfllty  of  being  left  behind  with  the  Enemy, 
till  I  fhould  be  in  a  Condition  to  be  re- 
mov'd,  and  when  that  time  came,  I  found 
my  felf  agreeably  order'd  to  Valencia. 

As  a  Prifoner  of  War  I  muft  now  bid  a- 
dieu  to  the  a&ive  Part  of  the  military  Life  • 
and  hereafter  concern  my  felf  with  Defcrip- 
tions  of  Countries,  Towns,  Palaces,  and 
Men,  inftead  of  Battles.  However,  if  I 
take  in  my  way  Anions  of  War,  founded 
on  the  beft  Authorities,  I  hope  my  Interfper- 
fing  fuch  will  be  no  difadvantage  to  my 
now  more  pacifick  Memoirs. 

S  o  foon  as  I  arriv'd  at  Valencia^  I  wrote 
to  our  Pay-mafter  Mr.  Mead^  at  Barcelona, 

letting 


letting  him  know,  that  I  was  become  a 
Prifoner,  wounded,  and  in  want  of  Money. 
Nor  could  even  all  thofe  Circumftances 
prevail  on  me  to  think  it  long  before  he  re- 
turned a  favourable  Anfwer,  in  an  Order  to 
Monfieur  Zoulicafre,  a  Banker,  to  pay  me 
on  Sight  fifty  Piftoles.  But  in  the  fame  Let- 
ter he  gave  me  to  underftand,  that  thofe 
fifty  Piftoles  were  aPrefentto  me  from  Ge- 
neral (afterwards  Earl)  Stanhope-,  and  fo 
indeed  I  found  it,  when  I  returned  into 
England^  my  Account  not  being  charged 
with  any  part  of  it :  But  this  was  not  the 
only  Teft  I  received  of  that  generous  Earl's 
Generofity.  And  where's  the  Wonder,  as 
the  World  is  compelfd  to  own,  that  Hero- 
ick  Aftions  and  Largenefs  of  Soul  ever  did 
difcover  and  amply  diftinguifh  the  genuine 
Branches  of  that  illuftrious  Family. 

This  Recruit  to  me  however  was  the 
more  generous  for  being  feafonable.  Bene- 
fits are  always  doubled  in  their  being  eafily 
conferr'd  and  well  tim'd  ,•  and  with  fuch  an 
Allowance  as  I  conftantly  had  by  the  order 
of  King  Philip,  as  Prifoner  of  War,  ciz. 
eighteen  Ounces  of  Mutton  per  diem  for 
my  felf,  and  nine  for  my  Man,  with  Bread 
and  Wine  in  proportion,  and  efpecially  in 
fuch  a  Situation  ;  all  this  I  fay  was  fufficient 
to  invite  a  Man  to  be  eafy,  and  almoft  for- 
get his  want  of  Liberty ,  and  much  more 
fo  to  me,  if  it  be  confider'd,  that,  that  want 

of 


C  *19  1 

of  Liberty  confided  only  in  being  debarred 
from  leaving  the  pleafanteft  City  in  all 
Spain.  | 

Here  I  met  with  the  French  Engineer, 
who  made  the  Mine  under  the  Rock  of  the 
Caftle  at  Alicant.     That  fatal  Mine,  which 
blew  up  General  Richards ,    Colonel  Sy- 
burg,     Colonel  Thornicrcft,  and  at  leaft 
twenty  more  Officers.     And  yet  by  the  Ac- 
count, that  Engineer  gave  me,  their  Fate 
was    their    own  choofing :   The   General, 
who  commanded  at  that  Siege  being  more 
induftrious  to  fave  them,  than   they  were 
to  be  fav'd  :  He  endeavour'd  it  many  ways : 
He  fent  them  word  of  the  Mine,  and  their 
readinefs  to  fpring  it  ,•    he  over  and  over 
fent  them  Offers  of  Leave    to  come,  and 
take  a  view  of  it,  and  infpeft  it :  Notwith- 
ftanding  all  which,  tho'  Colonel  -Thorni- 
er oft ,  and  Captain  Tage,  a  French  Engi- 
neer, in  the  Service  of  Kng  Charles,  pur- 
fued  the  Invitation,  and  were  permitted  to 
view  it,  yet  would  they  not  believe ;   but 
reported   on  their  Return,    that  it   was  a 
fham  Mine,  a  feint  only  to  intimidate  'em 
to  a  Surrender,   all  the  Bags  being   fill'd 
with  Sand  inftead   of  Gunpowder. 

The  very  Day  on  which  the  Befieger? 
defignM  to  fpring  the  Mine,  they  gave  No- 
tice of  it  j  and  the  People  of  the  Neigh- 
bourhood ran  up  in  Crowds  to  an  oppofite 
Hill  in  order  to  fee  it :  Never thelefs,  altho* 

thofc 


[  34.0  1 

thofe  in  the  Caftle  faw  all  this,  they  ftiif 
remain'd  fo  infatuated,  as  to  imagine  it  all 
done  only  to  affright  'em.  At  length  the 
fatal  Mine  was  fprung,  and  all  who  were 
upon  that  Battery  loft  their  Lives ;  and  a- 
mong  them  thofe  I  firft  mentioned.  The 
very  Recital  hereof  made  me  think  within 
my  feif,  who  tan  rejifl  his  Fate  ? 

That  Engineer  added  further,  that  it 
was  with  an  incredible  Difficulty,  that  he 
prepar'd  that  Mine  ,-  that  there  were  in  the 
Concavity  thirteen  hundred  Barrels  of 
Powder,-  notwithftanding  which,  it  made 
no  great  Noife  without,  whatever  it  might 
do  inwardly  $  that  only  taking  away  what 
might  be  not  improperly  tertnd  an  Excre- 
fcence  in  the  Rock,  the  Heave  on  the 
Blaft  had  render'd  the  Caftle  rather  ftronger 
on  that  Side  than  it  was  before ,  a  Cre- 
vice or  Crack  which  had  often  occafioned 
Apprehensions  being  thereby  wholly  clos'd 
and  firm. 

Some  farther  Particulars  I  foon  after 
had  from  Colonel  Sybur£s  Gentlemaa  ; 
who  feeing  me  at  the  Play-houfe,  chal- 
lenged me,  tho'  at  that  Time  unknown 
to  me.  He  told  me,  that  the  Night  pre* 
ceeding  the  unfortunate  Cataftrophe  of  his 
Mafter,  he  was  waiting  on  him  in  the 
Cafemet  ,  where  he  obferved,  fometime 
before  the  reft  of  the  Company  took  notice 
of  it,   that  General    Richards   appeared 

very 


[  H1  1 

very  penflve  and  thoughtful,  that  the  whole; 
Night  long  he  was  pefter'd  with,  and  could 
not  get  rid  of  a  great  Flie,  which  was  per- 
petually buzzing  about  his  Ears  and'  Head, 
to  the  vexation  and  difturbance  of  the  reft 
of  the  Company,  as  well   as  the  General 
himfelf,-  that  in   the  Morning,  when  they 
went  upon  the  Battery,    under  which  the 
Mine  was,  the  General   made  many  offers 
of  going  off;  but  Colonel  Syburg,  who  \v as 
got  a   little  merry,  and   the  reft  out  of  a 
Bravado,  would  ftay,   and   would  not  let 
the  General  ftif  ,•    that  at  laft  it  Was  pro- 
pos'd  by  Colonel  Syburg  to  have  the  other 
two  Bottles  to  the  Queen's  Health,    after 
which  he  promifed  they  would  all  go  oft 
together* 

Upon  this  my  Relator,  Syburg  s  Gentle^ 
man,  faid,  he  was  fent  to  fetch  the  ftipula- 
ted  two  Bottles  -,  returning  with  which$ 
Captain  T)amel  Weaver^  within  thirty  or 
forty  Yards  of  the  Battery,  ran  by  him, 
vowing ,  he  was  refolv'd  to  drink  the 
Queen's  Health  with  them  ;  but  his  Feet 
were  fcarce  on  the  Battery,  when  the  Mine 
Was  fprung,  which  took  him  away  with 
the  reft  cf  the  Company  •  while  Major 
Harding  now  a  Juftice  in  Weftminfter  com- 
ing that  very  Moment  off  Duty,  exchanged 
Fates. 

I  f  Predeftiriation,  in  the  Eyes  of  many, 

is  an  unaccountable  Do&rine3  what  better 

R  Account 


[  H*  1 

Account  can  the  wifeft  give  of  this  Fatality  ? 
Or  to  what  elfe  fhali  we  impute  the  Iffue 
of  this  whole  Tranfa&ion  ?  That  Men  fhall 
be  folicited  to  their  Safety  ;  fuffered  to  fur- 
vey  the  Danger  they  were  threatened  with ; 
among  many  other  Tokens  of  its  approach- 
ing Certainty,  fee  fuch  a  Concourfe  of  Peo- 
ple crowding  to  be  Spectators  of  their  im- 
pending Cataftrophe  $  and  after  all  this,  fo 
infatuated  to  flay   on  the  fatal  Spot   the 
fetching  up  of  the  other  two  Bottles ;  what- 
ever it  may  to  fuch  as  never  think,   to  fuch 
as  plead  an  ufe  of  Reafon,  it  muft  admini- 
fter  Matter  worthy  of  the  fedateft  Confide- 
ration. 

Being  now  pretty  well  recovered  of  my 
Wounds,  I  was  by  Order  of  the  Governor 
oiValencia,  removed  to  Saint e  Clement e  de 
la  Mancha,  a  Town  fomewhat  more  Inland, 
and  confequently  efteem'd  more  fecure  than 
a  Semi-Seaport.  Here  I  remain'd  under  a 
fort  of  Pilgrimage  upwards  of  three  Years. 
To  me  as  a  Stranger  diverted  of  Acquain- 
tance or  Friend  (for  at  that  inftant  I  was 
fole  Prifoner  there)  at  firft  it  appear'd  fuch, 
tho'  in  a  very  fmall  compafs  of  Time,  I 
luckily  found  it  made  quite  otherwife  by 
an  agreeable  Converfation. 

SJINTE  Clement e  de  la  Mancha, 
Is  rendered  famous  by  the  renovvn'd  T)on 
Michael  Cervi  antes,  who  in  his  facetious 
but  fatyrical  Romance,    has  fix'd  it  the 

Seat 


[  m  3 

Seat  and    Birth    Place  of  his  Hero  Don 
Qiiixot. 

"The  Gentlemen  of  this  Place  are  the 
leafi  Prieft-ridden  or  Sons  of  Bigotry,  of 
any  that  I  met  with  in  all  Spain  $  of  Which 
in  my  Converfation  with  them  I  had  daily 
Instances.  Among  many  others, an  Expreilion 
that  fell  from  Don  Felix  Tacheco^  a  Gentle- 
man of  the  beft  Figure  thereabout^  and  of  a 
very  plentiful  Fortune,  fhail  now  fuffice.  I 
was  become  very  intimate  with  him ,-  and 
we  us'd  often  to  converfe  together  with  a 
Freedom  too  dangerous  to  be  common  in  a 
Country  fo  enflav'd  by  the  Inquifition. 
Asking  me  one  Day  in  a  fort  of  a  jocofe 
manner,  who,  in  my  Opinion,  had  done  the 
greateft  Miracles  that  ever  were  heard  of? 
I  anfwer'd,  Jefus  Chrift.  cc  It  is  very  true, 
fays  he ,  Jefus  Chrift  did  great  Mi- 
racles, and  a  great  one  it  was  to  feed  five 
Thoufand  People  with  two  or  three  fmall 
Fillies,  and  a  like  number  of  Loaves : 
But  Saint  Francis,  the  Founder  of  the 
Francifcan  Order,  has  found  out  a  way 
cc  to  feed  daily  one  hundred  Thoufand  Lub- 
"  bards  with  nothing  at  all  ;  meaning  the 
Francifcans,  the  Followers  of  S^'mt  Fr  and  s^ 
who  have  no  vifible  Revenues  $  yet  in  their 
way  of  Living  come  up  to,  if  they  do  not 
exceed  any  other  Order. 

Another  Day  talking  of  the  Place,  it 
naturally  led  us  into    a  Difcourfe   of  the 

R  %  Knight 


[  H4-  ] 

Knight  of  la  Mancha^  Don  Quixot.     At 
which  time  he  told  me,  that  in  his  Opinion, 
that  Work  was  a  perfect  Paradox,    being 
the  beft  and  the  worft  Romance,  that  ever 
was  wrote.     cc  For,  fays  he,  tho'   it   muft 
cc  infallibly  pleafe  every  Man,  that  has  any 
•c  tafte  of  Wit ;  yet  has  it  had  fuch  a  fatal 
"  Effect  upon  the  Spirits  of  my  Country - 
"  men,  that  every  Man  of  Wit  muft  ever 
cc  refent ;  for,  continual  he,  before  the  Ap- 
<c  pearance  in  the  World  of  that  Labour  of 
Ci  CervianteS)  it  was  next  to  an  Impoffibi- 
cc  lity  for  a  Man  to  walk  the  Streets  with 
cc  any  Delight,  or  without  Danger.     There 
cc  were  feen  fo  many  Cavaliero's  prancing 
w  and  curvetting   before  the  Windows  of 


tc 


their  Miltrefles,   that  a  Stranger  would 

Ci  have    imagin'd   the    whole    Nation    to 

cc  have  been  nothing  lefs  than  a  Race  of 

cc  Knight  Errants.     But  after  the   World 

^  became  a  little  acquainted  with  that  no- 

cc  table  Hiftory;    the  Man  that  was  feen 

cc  in  that  once  celebrated  Drapery,    was 

cc  pointed  at  as  a  Uon  Quixot^  and  found 

c<  himfelf  the  Jeft  of  High  and  Low.    And 

a  I  verily  believe,  added  he,  that  to  this, 

cc  and  this  only  we  owe  that  dampnefs  and 

cc  poverty  of  Spirit,  which  has  run  thro'  all 

"  our  Councils  for  a  Century  paft,  fo  little 

a  agreeable  to  thofe  nobler  Actions  of  our 

*  famous  Anceftors. 

After 


C  H5  1 

After  many  of  thefe  letfer  forts  of  Con- 
fidences, Dm  Felix  recommended  me  to  a 
Lodging  next  Door  to  his  own.  It  was  at 
a  Widow's,  who  had  one  only  Daughter, 
her  Houfe  juft  oppofite  to  a  Francifcan 
Nunnery.  Here  1  remain'd  fomewhat  up- 
wards of  two  Years ;  all  which  time,  lying 
in  my  Bed,  I  could  hear  the  Nuns  early  id 
the  Morning  at  their  Matins ,  and  late  in 
the  Evening  at  their  Vefpers,  with  Delight 
enough  to  my  felf,  and  without  the  leaft 
Indecency  in  the  World  in  my  Thoughts  of 
them.  Their  own  Divine  Employ  too  much 
employ \d  every  Faculty  of  mine  to  entertain 
any  Thing  inconfentaneous  or  offenfive. 

This  my  Neighbourhood  to  the  Nunnery 
gave  me  an  opportunity  of  feeing  two  Nuns 
inverted  ;  and  in  this  I  muft  do  a  Juftice  to 
the  whole  Country,  to  acknowledge,  that  a 
Stranger  who  is  curious  (I  would  impute  it 
rather  to  their  hopes  of  Converfion,  than  to 
their  Vanity)  fhatl  be  admitted  to  much 
greater  Freedoms  in  their  religious  Pagean- 
tries, than  any  Native. 

One  of  thefe  Nuns  was  of  the  firft  Quali-^^ 
ty,  which  render'd  the  Ceremony  more  re- ^-{^" 
markably  fine.  The  manner  of  inverting  them***!, 
was  thus:    In  the  Morning  her  Relations 
and  Friends  all  met  at  her  Father's  Houfe ; 
whence,  fhe  being  attir'd  in  her  mpft  fump* 
tuous  Apparel,  and  a  Coronet  plac'd  on  her 
Head,  they  attended  her,  in  Cavalcade,  to 
R  3  the 


[H6] 

the  Nunnery,  the  Streets  and  Windows  be- 
ing crowded,  and  fill'd  with  Spectators  of 
all  forts. 

So  foon  as  die  enter 'd  the  Chapel  belong- 
ing to  the  Nunnery,  fhe  kneefd  down,  and 
with  an  appearance  of  much  Devotion,  fa- 
luted  the  Ground  ;  then  rifing  up,  fhe  ad- 
vanced a  Step  or  two  farther  ;  when  on  her 
Knees  fiie  repeated  the  Salutes:  This  done  fhe 
approached  to  the  Altar,  where  fiie  remain- 
ed till  Mafs  was  over :  After  which,  a  Ser- 
mon was  preaeh'd  by  one  of  the  Priefts  iv\ 
Praife,  or  rather  in  an  exalted  Preference 
of  a  Angle  Life.  The  Sermon  being  over,  the 
Nun  ele£t  fell  down  on  her  Knees  before  the 
Altar ;  and  after  fome  fhort  mental  Orai- 
fons,  rifing  again,  fhe  withdrew  into  an  in- 
per  Room,  where  Gripping  off  all  her  rich 
Attire,  iho  put  on  her  Nun's  Weeds:  la 
which  making  her  Appearance,  ihe,  again 
kneeling,  offered  up  fome  private  Devotions  3 
which  being  over,  fhe  was  led  to  the  Door 
of  the  Nunnery,  where  the  Lady  and  the 
reft  of  the  Nuns  flood  ready  to  receive  her 
with  open  Arms,  Thus  enter'd,  the  Nuns 
conducted  her  into  the  Quire,  where  after 
they  had  entertained  her  with  Singing,  and 
playing  upon  the  Organ,  the  Ceremony 
concluded,  and  every  one  departed  to  their 
proper  Habitations. 

The  very  fame  Day  of  the  Year  enfuing, 
Relations  and  Friends  of  the  fair  Novi- 
tiate 


[  HI  ] 

tiate  meet  again  in  the  Chapel  of  the  Nun- 
nery, where  the  Lady  Abbefs  brings  her 
out,  and  delivers  her  to  them.  Then  again  is 
there  a  Sermon  preach' d  on  the  fame  Subjeft 
as  at  firft  ;  which  being  over,  flie  is  brought 
up  to  the  Altar  in  a  decent,  but  plain  Drefs, 
the  fine  Apparel,  which  fhe  put  off  on  her 
Initiation,  being  depofited  on  one  fide  of  the 
Altar,  and  her  Nun's  Weeds  on  the  other. 
Here  the  Prieft  in  Latin  cries,  Utrum  horum 
mams ,  accipe  :  to  which  flie  anfwers,  as 
her  Inclination,  or  as  her  Inftru&ion  directs 
her.  If  fhe,  after  this  her  Year  of  Probation, 
fliow  any  Diflike,  fhe  is  at  Liberty  to  come 
again  into  the  World  :  But  if  aw'd  by  Fear 
(as  too  often  is  the  Cafe)  or  won  by  Ex- 
pectation, or  prefent  real  Inclination,  fhe 
makes  choice  of  the  Nun's  Weeds,  flie  is  im- 
mediately invefted3  and  muft  never  exped  to 
appear  again  in  the  World  out  of  the  Walls 
of  the  Nunnery.  The  young  Lady  I  thus 
faw  inverted  was  very  beautiful,  and  fang 
the  belt  of  any  in  the  Nunnery. 

There  are  in  the  Town  three  Nunneries, 
and  a  Convent  to  every  one  of  them  ;  viz. 
one  otJefuitS)  one  of  Carmelites ,  and  the 
other  of  Franciscans.  Let  me  not  be  fo 
far  miftaken  to  have  this  taken  by  way  of 
Reflection.  No!  Whatever  fome  of  our 
Rakes  of  the  Town  may  affert,  I  freely  de- 
clare, that  I  never  faw  in  any  of  the  Nun- 
neries (of  which  I  have  feen  many  both  in 
R  4  Sgain 


C  hS] 

Spain  and  other  Parts  of  the  World)  any 
thing  like  indecent  Behaviour,  that  might 
give  occafion  for  Satyr  or  Difefteem.  It  is 
true  3  there  may  be  Accidents,  that  may 
lead  to  a  Misinterpretation  ;  of  which  I  re- 
member a  very  untoward  Inftance  in  J li- 
cant. 

When  the  EngliJJj  Forces  firft  laid 
Siege  to  that  TowTn,  the  Priefts,  who 
were  apprehenfive  of  it,  having  been  long 
ilnce  made  fenilble  of  the  profound  Regard 
to  Chaftity  and  Modefty  of  us  Hereticks,  by 
the  ignominious  Behaviour  of  certain  Officers 
at  Rota  and  Porta  St.  Maria^  the  Priefts, 
1  fay,  had  taken  care  to  fend  away  privately 
all  the  Nuns  to  Majorca.  But  that  the  He- 
retick  Invaders  might  have  no  Jealoufy  of  it, 
the  fair  Curtezans  of  the  Town  were  admit- 
ted to  fupply  their  Room.  The  Officers, 
both  of  Land  and  Sea,  as  was  by  the  Friars 
pre-imagiifd ,  on  taking  the  Town  and 
Caftle,  immediately  repair'd  to  the  Grates 
of  the  Nunnery,  tofs'd  over  their  Handker- 
cheifs,  Nofegay*,  and  other  pretty  Things j 
all  which  were,  doubtlefs,  very  gracioufly 
received  by  thofe  imaginary  Reciufes. 
Thence  came  it  to  pafs,  that  in  the  fpace  of 
a  Month  or  lefs,  you  could  hardly  fall  into 
Company  of  any  one  of  cur  younger  Officers, 
of  either  fort,  but  the  Difcourfe,  if  it  might 
defer ve  the  Name,  was  concerning  thefe 
beautiful  Nuns  •  and  you  wou'd  have  ima- 
ging 


C  H9  J 

gin'dthe  Price  of  thefe  Ladies  as  well  known 
as  that  of  Flefh  in  their  common  Markets, 
Others,  as  well  as  my  felf,  have  often  en- 
deavour'd  to  difabufe  thofe  Gloriofo's,  but 
all  to  little  purpofe,  till  more  fenfible  Tokens 
convinced  them,  that  the  Nuns,  of  whofe  Fa- 
vours they  fo  much  boafted,  could  hardly  be 
perfect  Virgins,  tho'  in  a  Cloyfter.  And 
I  am  apt  to  think,  thofe  who  would  palm 
upon  the  World  like  vicious  Relations  of 
Nuns  and  Nunneries,  do  it  on  much  like 
Grounds.  Not  that  there  are  wanting  In- 
ftances  of  Nunneries  disfranchise  and  even 
demolifli'd,  upon  very  flagrant  Accounts  $ 
but  I  confine  my  felf  to  Spain. 

In  this  Town  of  la  Mancha  the  Corrigi- 
dore  always  has  his  Prefidence,  having  fix- 
teen  others  under  his  Jurifdiction,  of  which 
Jlmanza  is  one.  They  are  changed  every 
three  Years,  and  their  Offices  are  the  Pur- 
chafe  of  an  exceffive  Price  ^  which  occafi- 
ons  the  poor  People's  being  extravagantly 
fleeced,  nothing  being  to  be  fold  but  at  the 
Rates  they  impofe  3-  and  every  Thing  that  is 
fold  paying  the  Corrigidore  an  Acknowledg- 
ment in  fpecie,  or  an  Equivalent  to  his  liking. 

While  I  was  here,  News  came  of  the 
Battle  of  Almanar  and  Saragcfa  >3  and  gi- 
ving the  Victory  to  that  Side ,  which  they 
efpous'd  (that  of  King  'Philip)  they  made 
very  great  Rejoycings.  But  foon,  alas,  for 
them,  was  all  that  joy  converted  into  Sor- 
*  row : 


row  :  The  next  Courier  evincing,  that  the 
Forces  of  King  Charles  had  been  victorious 
in  both  Engagements.  This  did  not  turn 
to  my  prefent  Difadvantage  :  For  Convents 
and  Nunneries,  as  well  as  fome  of  thofe 
Dons,  whom  afore  I  had  not  flood  fo  well 
with,  ftrove  now  how  raoft  to  oblige  me ; 
not  doubting,  but  if  the  victorious  Army 
ihould  march  that  way,  it  might  be  in  my 
Power  to  double  the  mod  fignal  of  their 
Services  in  my  Friendfhip. 

Soon  after  an  Accident  fell  out,  which 
had  like  to  have  been  of  an  unhappy  Con- 
fequence  to  me.  I  was  {landing  in  Com- 
pany, upon  the  Parade,  when  a  mofl  fur- 
prizing  flock  of  Eagles  flew  over  our  Heads, 
where  they  hover'd  for  a  confiderable  time. 
The  Novelty  {truck  them  all  with  Admira- 
tion, as  well  as  my  felf.  But  I,  lefs  ac- 
cufromed  to  like  Spectacles,  innocently  fay- 
ing, that  in  my  Opinion,  it  could  not  bode 
any  good  to  King  Thilip ,  becaufe  the 
Eagle  composed  the  Arms  of  Juftria-,  fome 
bufie  Body,  in  hearing,  went  and  inform'd 
the  Corrigidore  of  it.  Thofe  mofl  magi- 
fterial  "Wretches  embrace  ail  Occafions  of 
fqueezing  Money  ;  and  more  efpecially  from 
Strangers.  However  finding  his  Expecta- 
tions difappointed  in  me,  and  that  I  too 
well  knew  the  length  of  his  Foot,  to  let 
my  Money  run  freely  ;  he  fcnt  me  next 
Day  to  Jlercon-,  but  the  Governor  of  that 

Place 


Place  having  had  before  Intelligence,  that 
the  Englijh  Army  was  advancing  that  way, 
refus'd  to  receive  me,  fo  I  return'd  as  I 
went ;  only  the  Gentlemen  of  the  Place,  as 
they  had  condoFd  the  firft,  congratulated 
the  laft  ;  for  that  Corrigidore  flood  but  very 
indifferently  in  their  Affe&ions.  However, 
it  was  a  warning  to  me  ever  after,  how  I 
made  ufe  of  Engliflo  Freedom  in  a  Spanifh 
Territory. 

As  I  had  attain'd  the  Acquaintance  of 
moft  of  the  Clergy,  and  Religious  of  the 
Place  ;  fo  particularly  I  had  my  aim  in  ob- 
taining that  of  the  Provincial  of  the  Car* 
melites.  His  Convent,  tho'  fmall,  was  ex- 
ceeding neat ,-  but  what  to  me  was  much 
more  agreeable,  there  were  very  large  Gar- 
dens belonging  to  it,  which  often  furnifhed 
me  with  Sallading  and  Fruit,  and  much 
oftner  with  Walks  of  Refrefhment,  the  moft 
fatisfaftory  Amufement  in  this  warm  Cli- 
mate. This  Acquaintance  with  the  Pro- 
vincial was  by  a  little  Incident  foon  ad- 
vanced into  a  Friendship  ^  which  was  thus : 
I  was  one  Day  walking,  as  I  us'd  to  do, 
in  the  long  Gallery  of  the  Convent,  when 
obferving  the  Images  of  the  Virgin  Maryy 
of  which  there  was  one  at  each  end  $  I 
took  notice  that  one  had  an  Infcription  un- 
der it,  which  was  this,  Ecce,  Virgo  pepe- 
ritfiliurii ;  but  the  other  had  no  Infcription 

2  at 


[  *5*  1 

at  all  j  upon  which,  I  took  out  my  Pencil, 
and  wrote  underneath,  this  Line  : 

Sponfa  T>eiy  patrifque  parens,  &filiafiliu 

The  Friars,  wTho  at  a  little  diftance  had 
obferved  me,  as  foon  as  I  was  gone,  came 
up  and  read  what  I  had  writ  $  reporting 
which  to  the  Provincial,  he  order'd  them 
to  be  writ  over  in  Letters  of  Gold,  and 
plac'd  juft  as  I  had  put  'em  ;  faying,  doubt- 
lefs,  fuch  a  fine  Line  coud  proceed  from 
nothing  lefs  than  Infpiration.  This  fecur'd 
me  ever  after  his  and  their  Efteem;  the 
leaft  advantage  of  which,  was  a  full  Liberty 
of  their  Garden  for  all  manner  of  Fruit, 
Sallading,  or  whatever  I  pleafed :  And  as 
1  faid  before,  the  Gardens  were  too  fine 
not  to  render  fuch  a  Freedom  acceptable. 

They  often  want  Rain  in  this  Country  : 
To  fupply  the  Defecft  of  which,  I  obferved 
in  this  Garden,  as  well  as  others,  an  Inven- 
tion not  unufeful.  There  is  a  Well  in  the 
middle  of  the  Garden,  and  over  that  a 
Wheel  with  many  Pitchers,  or  Buckets, 
one  under  another,  which  Wheel  being  turn- 
ed round  by  an  Afs,  the  Pitchers  fcoop  up 
the  Water  on  one  Side,  and  throw  it  out 
on  the  other  into  a  Trough,  that  by  little 
Channels  conveys  it,  as  the  Gardiner  di- 
rects, into  every  part  of  the  Garden.  By 
this  Means  their  Flowers  and  their  Sallad- 

ing 


[  *53  J 

ing  are  continually  refrefh'd,  and  preferved 
from  the  otherwise  over-parching  Beams  of 
the  Sun. 

The  Inquifition,  in  almofl:  every  Townee**; 
in  Spain  (and  more  efpecially,  if  of  any  greats  °fth*i 
Account)  has  its  Spies,  or  Informers,   foTInciwittm 
treacherous    Intelligence.     Thefe    make  it 
their  Bufinefs  to  enfnare  the  fimple  and  un- 
guarded ;  and  are  more  to  be  avoided  by 
the  Stranger,  than  the  Rattle  Snake.    Na- 
ture having  appointed  no  fuch  happy  Tokens 
in  the  former  to  forefhew  the  Danger.  I  had 
Reafon  to  believe,  that  one  of  thofe  Ver- 
min once  made  his  Attack  upon  me  in  this 
place :  And  as  they  are  very  rarely,  if  ever 
known  to  the  Natives  themfelves,  I  being 
a  Stranger,   may  be  allowed  to   make   a 
guefs  by  Circumftances. 

1  was  walking  by  my  felf,  when  a  Per- 
fon,  wholly  unknown  tome,  giving  methe 
civil  Salute  of  the  Day,  endeavour'd  to  draw 
me  into  Converfation.  After  Queftions  had 
pafs'd  on  general  Heads,  the  Fellow  enfna- 
ringly  asked  me,  how  it  came  to  pafs,  that 
I  fhow'd  fo  little  Refpeft  to  the  Image  of 
the  crucify 'd  Jefus,  as  I  pafs'd  by  it  in  fuch 
a  Street,  naming  it?  I  madeAnfwer,  that  I 
had,  or  ought  to  have  him  always  in  my 
Heart  crucified.  To  that  he  made  no  Re- 
ply :  But  proceeding  in  his  Interrogatories, 
queftion'd  me  next,  whether  I  believ'd  a 
Purgatory  ?   I  evaded  the  Queftion ,   as  I 

took 


[  254-  3 

took  it  to  be  enfnaring  3-  and  only  told  him, 
that  I  fliould  be  willing  to  hear  him  offer 
any  Thing  that  might  convince  me  of  the 
Truth,  or  Probability  of  it.  Truth?  He 
reply 'd  in  a  Heat :  There  never  yet  was 
Man  fo  Holy  as  to  enter  Heaven  without 
firft  paffing  through  Purgatory.  In  my  O- 
pinion,  faid  I,  there  will  be  no  Difficulty  in 
convincing  a  reafonable  Man  to  the  contra- 
ry.  What  mean  you  by  that,  cry'd  the 
Spy  ?  I  mean,  faid  I,  that  I  can  name  one, 
and  a  great  Sinner  too,  who  went  into  Blifs 
without  any  Vifit  to  Purgatory.  Name  him, 
if  you  can,  reply 'd  my  Querift.  What  think 
you  of  the  Thief  upon  the  Crofs,  faid  I  ? 
to  whom  our  dying  Saviour  faid,  Hodie 
eris  mecum  in  'Paradifo.  At  which  being 
filenced  tho'  not  convicted,  he  turned  from 
me  in  a  violent  Rage,  and  left  me  to  my 
felf. 

What  increas'd  my  firft  Sufpicion  of  him 
was,  that  a  very  fhort  time  after,  my 
Friend  the  Provincial  fent  to  fpeak  with 
me ,-  and  repeating  all  Paflages  between  the 
holy  Spy  and  nje,  affur'd  me  that  he  had 
been  forc'd  to  argue  in  my  Favour,  and  tell 
him  that  I  had  faid  nothing  but  well:  jpbr, 
fays  he,  all  ought  to  have  the  Holy  Jefus 
crucified  in  their  Hearts.  "  Neverthelefs, 
€t  continu'd  he,  it  is  a  commendable  and 
€C  good  Thing  to  have  him  reprefented  in 
ll  the  high  Ways :    For,  fuppofe,  faid  he, 

"  a  Man 


vC 


[  255  1 

a  Man  was  going  upon  fome  bafe  or  pro- 
cc  fligate  Defign,  the  very  Sight  of  a  cruci- 
cc  fied  Saviour  may  happen  to  fubvert  his 
cc  Refolution,  and  deter  him  from  commit- 
<c  ting  Theft,  Murder,  or  any  other  of  the 
cc  deadly  Sins.  And  thus  ended  that  Con- 
ference. 

I  remember  upon  fome  other  occafional 
Converfation  after,  the  Provincial  told  me, 
that  in  the  Carmelite  Nunnery  next  to  his 
Convent,  and  under  his  Care,  there  was  a 
Nun,  that  was  Daughter  to  T>on  Juan  of 
Aaftria^  iffo,  her  Age  muft  render  her 
venerable,  as  her  Quality. 

Ta  king  notice  one  Day,  that  all  the 
People  of  the  Place  :  f  ch'd  their  Water  from 
a  Well  without  the  rl  vvn,  altho'  they  had 
many  feemingly  as  good  within  ;  I  fpoke 
to  T)on  Felix  of  it,  who  ga^ve  me,  under  the 
Seal  of  Secrecy,  this  Reafon  for  it :  cc  When 
cc  the  Seat  of  the  War,  faid  he,  layinthefe 
<e  Parts,  the  French  Train  of  Artillery  was 
cc  commonly  quarter'd  in  this  Place  ,•  the 
"  Officers  and  Soldiers  of  which  were  fo 
cc  very  rampant  and  rude,  in  attempting  to 
cc  debauch  our  Women,  that  there  is  not  a 
cc  Well  within  the  Town,  which  has  not 
"  fome  French  Mens  Bones  at  the  bottom 
cc  of  it ;  therefore  the  Natives,  who  are  fen- 
€C  fible  of  it,  choofe  rather  to  go  farther  a 
€C  field, 

By 


056  1 

By  this  Well  there  runs  a  little  Rivulef i 
which  gives  head  to  that  famous  River  calfd 
the  Gtiadianai  which  running  for  fome 
Leagues  under  Ground,  affords  a  pretence 
for  the  Natives  to  boaft  of  a  Bridge  on 
which  they  feed  many  Thoufands  of  Sheep. 
When  it  rifes  again,  it  is  a  fine  large  River^ 
and  after  a  Currency  of  many  Leagues, 
empties  it  felf  into  the  Atlantick  Ocean. 

As  to  military  Affairs,  Alrnanar  and  Sara* 
go  fa  were  Victories  fo  compleat,  that  no 
Body  made  the  leaft  doubt  of  their  fettling 
the  Crown  of  Spain  upon  the  Head  of 
Charles  the  Third,  without  a  Rival.    This 
was  not  barely  the  Opinion  of  his  Friends, 
but  his  very  Enemies  refign'd  all  Hope  or* 
Expectation  in  favour  of  King  'Philip.  The 
Castilians,  his  moft  faithful  Friends,  enter* 
tain'd  no  other  Imagination  •  for  after  they 
had  advis'd,  and  prevailed  that  the  Queen 
with  the  Prince  of  J/iurias  fhould  be  fent 
to  ViUoria  $  under  the  fame  Defpondency^ 
and  a  full  Difpiritednef1,  they  gave  him  fo 
little  Encouragement  to  ftay  in  Madrid, 
that  he  immediately  quitted  the  Place,  with 
a  Refolution  to  retire  into  his  Grandfather's 
Dominions,  the  Place  of  his  Nativity. 

In  his  way  to  which,  even  on  the  lad 
Day's  Journey,  it  was  his  great  good  For- 
tune to  meet  the  Duke  of  Vendome^  with 
fome  few  Troops,  which  his  Grandfather 
Lewis  XIV.  of  France  had  order' d  to  his 

Succour 


I  *57  ] 

Succour,  under  that  Duke's  Command.  The 
Duke  was  grievoufly  affe&ed  at  fuch  an  un- 
expected Cataftrophe  ;  neverthelefs,  he  left 
nothing  unfaid  or  undone,  that  might  in- 
duce that  Prince  to  turn  back  ;  and  at  length 
prevailing,  after  a  little  Reft,  and  a  great 
deal  of  Patience,  by  the  Coming  in  of  his 
fcatter'd  Troops,  and  fome  few  he  could 
raife,  together  with  thofe  the  Duke  brought 
with  him,  he  once  more  faw  himfelf  at  the 
Head  of  twenty  thoufand  Men. 

While  Things  were  in  this  Manner,  un- 
der Motion  in  King  'Philip's  Favour,  Charles 
the  third,  with  his  vi&orious  Army,  advan- 
ces forward,    and  enters  into  Madrid^  of 
which  he  made  General  Stanhope  Governor. 
And  even  here  the  Caftilians  gave  full  Proof 
of  their  Fidelity  to  their  Prince  •    even  at 
the  Time  when,  in  their  Opinion,  his  Affairs 
were  paft  all  Hopes  of  Retrieve,  they  them- 
felves  having,  by  their  Advice,  contributed 
to  his  Retreat.     Inftead  of  prudential  Accla- 
mations therefore,  fuch  as  might  have  an- 
fwered  the  Expectations  of  a  viftdrious  Prince^ 
now  entering  into  their  Capital,  their  Streets 
were  all  in  a  profound  Silence,  their  Balco- 
nies un-adornM  with  coftly  Carpets,  as  was 
cuftomary  on  like  Occafions  ,-  and  fcarce  an 
Inhabitant  to  be  feen  in  either  Shop  or  Win- 
dow. 

This  doubtlefs  was  no  little  Mortificati- 
on to  a  conquering  Prince ;    however  his 
S  Ge- 


Generals  were  wife  enough  to  keep  him 
from  fhewing  any  other  Tokens  of  Refcnt- 
ment,  than  marching  through  the  City  with 
Unconcern,  and  taking  up  his  Quarters  at 
Villa-verdci^  about  a  League  from  it. 

Nevertheless  King  Charles  vifited,  in 
his  March,  the  Chapel  of  the  Lady  do  Ato- 
cha>  where  finding  feveral  Englijh  Colours 
and  Standards,  taken  in  the  Battle  of  Al- 
manzay  there  hung  up  -y  he  ordered  'em  to 
be  taken  down,'and  reftor'd  'em  to  the  En- 
gliflj  General. 

It  was  the  current  Opinion  then,  and  al~ 
moft  univerfal  Confent  has  fince  confirm'd 
it,  that  the  falfeft  Step  in  that  whole  War 
was  this  Advancement  of  King  Charles  to 
Madrid.  After  thofe  two  remarkable  Vi- 
ctories at  Ahnqnar  and  Saragofa,  had  he 
directed  his  March  to  Tampeluna,  and  ob- 
tain'd  Poffeilion  of  that  Place,  or  fome  other 
near  it,  he  had  not  only  ftopt  all  Succours 
from  coming  out  of  France,  but  he  would, 
in  a  great  Meafure,  have  prevented  the  ga- 
thering together  of  any  of  the  routed  and 
difpers'd  Forces  of  King  Philip:  And  it 
was  the  general  Notion  of  the  Spaniards,  I 
convers'd  with  while  at  Madrid?  that  had 
King  Philip  once  again  fet  his  Foot  up- 
on French  Land,  Spain  would  never  have 
been  brought  to  have  re-acknowledged  him. 

King  Charles  with   his  Army  having 
ftay'd  fome  Time  about  Madrid?   and  fee- 


ing 


[  259  ] 

ing  his  Expectations  of  the  C&Jlilians  join- 
ing him  not  at  all  anfwered,  at  laft  refolved 
to  decamp,  and  return  to  Saragofa :  Accord- 
ingly with  a  very  few  Troops  that  Prince  ad- 
vanced thither;  while  the  main  Body,  under 
the  Command  of  the  Generals  Stanhope  and 
Staremberg^  paffing  under  the  very  Walls 
of  Madrid^  held  on  their  March  towards 
Jragon. 

After  about  three  Days  March,  Gene- 
ral Stanhope  took  up  his  Quarters  at  Sreu- 
higay   a  fmali  Town  half  waif  d ;   Gene- 
ral Staremberg  marching    three    Leagues 
farther,  to  Cifuentes.     This  Choice  of  Si- 
tuation of  the  two  feveral  Armies  not    a 
little  puzzled  the  Politicians  of  thofe  Times ; 
who  could  very  indifferently  account  for  the 
Englijh  General's  lying  expos'd  in  an  open 
Town,   wTith  his  few  Englijh  Forces,   of 
which  General  Harvey  s  Regiment  of  fine 
Horfe  might  be  deem 'd  the  Main  ;  and  Ge- 
neral Staremberg  encamping  three  Leagues 
farther  off  the  Enemy.     But  to  fee  the  Vi- 
ciifitudes  of  Fortune,  to  which  the  Anions 
of  the  braveft,  by  an  untoward  Sort  of  Fa- 
tality, are  often  forced  to  contribute !  None, 
who  had  been  Eye-witnefTes  of  the  Bravery 
of  either  of  thofe  Generals  at  the  Battles  of 
Jlmanar  and  Saragofa^  could  find  Room 
to  call  in  queftion  either  their  Conduct  or 
their  Courage  ;  and  yet  in  this  March,  and 
this  Encampment  will  appear  a  vifible  ill 
S  2  Con- 


[  260  ] 

Confequence  to  [the  Affairs  of  the  Interef! 
they  fought  for. 

The  Duke  oiVendofme  having  increas'd 
the  Forces  which  he  brought  from  France*, 
to  upwards  of  twenty  thoufand  Men^,  marches 
by  Madrid  diredtly  for  SreuMga,  where 
his  Intelligence  informed  him  General  Stan- 
hope lay,  and  that  fo  fecretly  as  well  as 
fwiftly,  that  that  General  knew  nothing  of 
it,  nor  could  be  perfuaded  to  believe  it,  till 
the  very  Moment  their  Bullets  from  the  Ene~ 
my's  Cannon  convinc  d  him  of  the  Truth* 
BretiMga,  I  havefaid,  was  wall'd  only  on  one 
Sideband  yet  on  that  very  Side  theEnemy  made 
their  Attack.  But  what  could  a  Handful  do  a- 
gainft  a  Force  fo  much  fuperior,  though  they 
had  not  been  in  want  of  both  Powder  and  Ball  3- 
and  in  want  of  thefe  were  forc'd  to  make  ufe 
of  Stones  againft  all  Sorts  of  Ammunition, 
which  the  Enemy  ply'd  them  with  ?  The 
Confequence  anfwered  the  Deficiency  ,-  they 
were  ail  made  Prifoners  of  War,  and  Har- 
vey s  Regiment  of  Horfe  among  the  reft  $ 
which,  to  augment  their  Calamity,  was  im- 
mediately remounted  by  the  Enemy,  and 
march'd  along  with  their  Army  to  attack 
General  Staremberg* 

That  General  had  heard  fomewhat  of 
the  March  of  Vendofme ;  and  waited  with 
lome  Impatience  to  have  the  Confirmation 
of  it  from  General  Stanhope,  who  lay  be- 
tween, and  whom  he  lay  under  an  Expedi- 
tion 


tion  of  being  joined  with:  However  foe 
thought  it  not  improper  to  make  fome  lit- 
tle Advance  towards  him ;  and  accordingly 
breaking  up  from  his  Camp  at  Cifuentes,  he 
came  back  to  Villa  viciofa,  a  little  Town 
between  Cifuentes  and  *Breuhiga  >  there  he 
found  Vendofme  ready  to  attack  him,  before 
he  could  well  be  prepared  for  him,  but  no 
Englijh  to  join  him,  as  he  had  expedted  ; 
neverthelefs,  the  Battle  was  hot,  and  obfti- 
nately  fought  ^  although  Staremberg  had  vi- 
fibly  the  Advantage,  having  beat  the  Ene- 
my at  leaft  a  League  from  their  Cannon ;  at 
which  Time  hearing  of  the  Misfortune  of 
Sreubiga,  and  finding  himfelf  thereby  fru- 
ftrated  of  thofe  expe&ed  Succours  to  %h 
port  him,  he  made  a  handfome  Retreat  to 
'Barcelona,  which  in  common  Calculation  is 
about  one  hundred  Leagues,  without  any 
Difturbance  of  an  Enemy  that  feem'd  glad 
to  be  rid  of  him.  Neverthelefs  his  Baggage 
having  fallen  into  the  Hands  of  the  Enemy, 
at  the  Beginning  of  the  Fight,  King  Phi- 
lip and  the  Duke  of  Vendofme  generoufly 
return'd  it  unopend,  and  untouched,  in  ac- 
knowledgment of  his  brave  Behaviour. 

I  had  like  to  have  omitted  one  material 
PafTage,  which  I  was  very  credibly  inform- 
ed of  j  That  General  Carpenter  offered  to 
have  gone,  and  have  join'd  General  Starem- 
berg with  the  Horfe,  which  was  refus'd  him. 
This  was  certainly  an  Overlight  of  the  high-. 
S,  3  eft.. 


[  *6o  ] 

eft  Nature  ;  fince  his  going  would  have 
flrengthen' d  Staremberg  almoft  to  the  AfTu- 
rance  of  an  intire  Vi&ory  ;  whereas  his  Stay 
was  of  no  manner  of  Service,  but  quite  the 
contrary  :  For,  aslfaid  before,  the  Enemy, 
by  re-mounting  the  EngliJJo  Horfe  (which 
perhaps  were  the  compleateft  of  any  Regi- 
ment in  the  World)  turn'd,  if  I  may  be  al- 
lowed the  Expreffiotij  the  Strength  of  our 
Artillery  upon  our  Allies. 

Upon   this  Retreat  of  Staremberg,  and 
the  Surprize  at  UrUihiga,  there  were  great 
Rejoicings  at  Madrid,  and  every  where  elfe, 
where  King  Vhilifs  Intereft  prevailed.  And 
indeed  it  might  be  faid,  from  that  Day  the 
Intereft  of  King  Charles  look'd  with  a  very 
lowering  Afprft.     I  was  ftill  a  Prifoner  at 
la  Mancha,  when  this  News  arriv'd ;  and 
very  fenfibly  affe&ed  at  that  ftrange  Turn  of 
Fortune.     I  was  in  Bed,  when  the  Exprefs 
pafs'd  through  the  Town,  in  order  to  con- 
vey it  farther  \  and  in  the  Middle  of  the 
Night  I  heard  a  certain  Spanijb  Don,  with 
whort^  a  little  before,  I  had  had  fome  lit- 
tle Variance,  thundering  at  my  Door,  en- 
deavouring to  burft  it  open,  with,  as  I  had 
lleafon  to  fuppofe,  no  very  favourable  De- 
fign  upon  me.     But  my  Landlady,  who  hi- 
therto had  always  been  kind  and  careful, 
calling  Don  Felix,  and  fome  others  of  my 
Friends  together,  fav'd  me  from  the  Fury  of 
his  peiigm,  whatever  they  were. 

Among 


[***  ] 

Among  other  ExprefTions  of  the  general 
Joy  upon  this  Occafion,  there  was  a  Bull- 
Feaft  at  la  Mancba ;  which  being  much  be- 
yond what  I  faw  at  Valencia^  1  fhall  here 
give  a  Defcription  of.  Thefe  Bull-Feafts  are 
not  fo  common  now  in  Spain  as  formerly, 
King  Thilip  not  taking  much  Delight  in 
them.  Neverthelefs,  as  foon  as  it  was  pub- 
lifh'd  here,  that  there  was  to  be  one,  no  o- 
ther  Difcourfe  was  heard  ;  and  in  the  Talk 
of  the  Bulls,  and  the  great  Preparations  for 
the  Feaft,  Men  feem  cl  to  have  loft,  or  to 
have  lay'd  afide,  all  Thoughts  of  the  very 
Occafion.  A  Week's  time  was  allow'd  for 
the  Building  of  Stalls  for  the  Beafts,  and 
Scaffolds  for  the  Spectators,  and  other  ne- 
ceffary  Preparations  for  the  fetting  off  their 
Joy  with  the  moft  fuitable  Splendour. 

On  the  Day  appointed  for  the  bringing 
the  Bulls  into  Town,  the  Cavalieroes  mount- 
ed their  Horfes,  and,  with  Spears  in  their 
Hands,  rode  out  of  Town  about  a  League, 
or  fomewhat  more  to  meet  them  :  If  any  of 
the  Bulls  break  from  the  Drove,  and  make 
an  Excurfion  (as  they  frequently  do)  the 
Cavaliero  that  can  make  him  return  again 
to  his  Station  among  his  Companions,  is 
held  in  Honour,  fuitable  to  the  Dexterity 
and  Addrefs  he  performs  it  with.  On  their 
Entrance  into  the  Town,  all  the  Windows 
are  fill'd  with  Spectators ;  a  Pope  pafftng  in 
grand  Proceffion  could  not  have  more  ;  for 
S  4  what 


[  ?%  ] 

what  can  be  more  than  all  ?  And  he  or  flie 
who  fhould  negle&.fo  rare  a  Show,  would 
give  Occafion  to  have  his  or  her  Legitimacy 
call'd  in  Queftion. 

When  they  come  to  the  Tlazct^  where 
the  Stalls  and  Scaffolds  are  buiit,  and  upon 
Which  the  Feats  of  Chivalry  are  to  be  per- 
formed, it  is  often  with  a  great  deal  of  Diffi- 
culty that  the  Brutes  are  got  in  ;  for  there 
are  twelve  Stalls,  one  for  every  Bull,  and  as 
their  Number  grows  lefs  by  the  enftalling 
of  fome,  the  Remainder  often  prove  more 
untra&able  and  unruly  :  In  thefe  Stalls  they 
are  kept  very  dark,  to  render  them  fiercer 
for  the  pay  of  Battle. 

On  the  firfl  of  the  Days  appointed  (for 
a  Bull-Feaft  commonly  lafts  three)  all  fhe 
Gentry  of  the  Place,  or  near  adjacent,  refort 
to  the  Tlaza  in  their  moft  gaudy  Apparel, 
every  one  vieing  in  making  the  moft  glorious 
Appearance.  Thofe  in  the  lower  Ranks 
provide  themfclves  with  Spears,  or  a  great 
many  final!  Darts  in  their  Hands,  which 
they  fail  not  to  caft  or  dart,  whenever  the 
Bull  by  his  Nearnefs  gives  them  an  Oppor- 
tunity. 5  So  that  the  poor  Creature  may  be 
faid  to  fight,  not  only  with  the  Tauriro  (or 
Bull-hunter,  a  Perfon  always  hired  for  that 
Purpofe)  but  with  the  whole  Multitude  in 
the  lowei*  Oafs  at  leaft. 

All  being  feated,  the  nppermoft  Door  is 
open'd  firft  j    and  as  foori  as  ever  the  Bull 

pcr*: 


[a65] 

perceives  the  Light,  out  he  comes,  fnuffing 
up  the  Air,  and  flareing  about  him,  as  if  in 
admiration  of  his  Attendants ;  and  with  his 
Tail  cock'd  up,  he  fpurns  the  Ground  with 
his  Forefeet,  as  if  he  intended  3  Challenge 
to  his  yet  unappearing  Antagonift.  Then 
at  a  Door  appointed  for  that  purpofe,  enters 
the  Tauriro  all  in  white,  holding  a  Cloak 
in  one  Hand,  and  a  fliarp  two  edged  Sword 
in  the  other.  The  Bull  no  fooner  fets  Eyes 
ypon  him,  but  wildly  flaring,  he  moves 
gently  towards  him  5  then  gradually  mends 
his  pace,  till  he  is  come  within  about  the 
fpace  of  twenty  Yards  of  the  Tauriro ; 
when,  with  a  fort  of  Spring,  he  makes  at 
him  with  all  his  might.  The  Tauriro 
knowing  by  frequent  Experience,  that  it 
behoves  him  to  be  watchful,  flips  afide  juft 
when  the  Bull  is  at  him  >  when  calling  his 
Cloak  over  his  Horns3  at  the  fame  Moment 
he  gives  him  a  flafh  or  two,  always  aiming 
at  the  Neck,  where  there  is  one  particular 
Place,  which  if  he  hit,  he  knows  he  fhall 
eafily  bring  him  to  the  Ground.  I  my  Self 
pbferv'd  the  truth  of  this  Experiment  made 
upon  one  of  the  Bulls,  who  receiv'd  no  more 
than  one  Cut,  which  happening  upon  the 
fatal  Spot,  fo  ftun'd  him,  that  he  remain'd 
perfectly  ftupid,  the  Blood  flowing  out  from 
the  Wound,  till  after  a  violent  Trembling 
he  dropt  down  ftone  dead. . 

But 


[  a66] 

But  this  rarely  happens,  and  the  poor 
Creature  oftner  receives  many  Wounds, 
and  numberlefs  Darts,  before  he  dies.  Yet 
whenever  he  feels  a  frelli  Wound  either  from 
Dart,  Spear,  or  Sword,  his  Rage  receives 
addition  from  the  Wound,  and  be  purfues 
his  Tauriro  with  an  Increafe  of  Fury  and 
Violence.  And  as  often  as  he  makes  at  his 
Adverfary,  the  Tauriro  takes  care  with  the 
iitmoft  of  his  Agility  to  avoid  him,  and  re- 
ward his  kind  Intention  with  a  new 
Wound. 

Some  of  their  Bulls  will  play  their  Parts 
much  better  than  others :  But  the  beft  muft 
die.  For  when  they  have  behav'd  them- 
felves  with  all  the  commendable  Fury  pofft- 
ble$  if  the  Tauriro  is  fpent,  and  fail  of  do- 
ing Execution  upon  him,  they  fet  Dogs 
upon  him  :  Hough  him  and  ftick  him  all 
over  with  Darts,  till  with  very  lofs  of 
Blood  he  puts  an  end  to  their  prefent  Cru- 
elty. 

When  dead,  a  Man  brings  in  two  Mules 
drefs'd  out  with  Bells  and  Feathers,  and 
fattening  a  Rope  about  his  Horns,  draws  off 
the  Bull  with  the  Shouts  and  Acclamations 
of  the  Spectators ;  as  if  the  Infidels  had  been 
drove  from  before  Ceitta. 

I  had  almoft  forgot  another  very  common 
peice  of  barbarous  Pleafure  at  thefe  Diver- 
sions.    The  Tauriro  will  fometimes  ftick 

one 


C^7] 

one  of  their  Bull  Spears  faft  in  the  Ground, 
aflant,  but  levell'd  as  near  as  he  can  at  his 
Cheft  ;  then  prefenting  himfelf  to  the  Bull, 
juft  before  the  point  of  the  Spear,  on  his 
taking  his  run  at  the  Tauriro,  which,  as 
they  affur'd  me,  he  always  does  with  his 
Eyes  clofed,  the  Tauriro  flips  on  one  fide, 
and  the  poor  Creature  runs  with  a  violence 
often  to  ftick  himfelf,  and  fometimes  to 
break  the  Spear  in  his  Cheft,  running  away 
with  part  of  it  till  he  drop. 

This  Tauriro  was  accounted  one  of  the 
bed  in  Spain ;  and  indeed  I  faw  him  mount 
the  back  of  one  of  the  Bulls,  and  ride  on 
him,  flafhing  and  cutting,  till  he  had  quite 
wearied  him  •  at  which  time  difmounting,  he 
kilfd  him  with  much  Eafe,  and  to  the 
acclamatory  Satisfaction  of  the  whole  Con- 
courfe:  For  variety  of  Cruelty,  as  well 
as  Dexterity ,  adminifters  to  their  De- 
light. ' 

The  Tauriroes  are  very  well  paid ;  and 
in  Truth  fo  they  ought  to  be,-  for  they  often 
lofe  their  Lives  in  the  Diverfion,  as  this 
did  the  Year  after  in  the  way  of  his  Calling. 
Yet  is  it  a  Service  of  very  great  Profit  when 
they  perform  dextroufly:  For  when  ever 
they  do  any  Thing  remarkable,  deferving 
the  Notice  of  the  Spe&ators,  they  never  fail 
of  a  generous  Gratification,  Money  being 
thrown  down  to  'em  in  plenty. 

This 


[  s68  ] 

This  Feaft  (as  they  generally  do)  laftecf 
three  Days  j  the  laft  of  which  was,  in  my 
Opinion,  much  before  either  of  the  other* 
On  this,  a  young  Gentleman,  whofe  Name 
was  Don  Pedro  Ortega,  a  Perfon  of  great 
Quality,  performed  the  Exercife  on  Horfe- 
back.  The  Seats,  if  not  more  crowded^ 
were  filled  with  People  of  better  Fafliion, 
who  came  from  Places  at  a  diftance  to  grace 
the  noble  Tattriro. 

He  was  finely  mounted,  and  made  a 
very  graceful  Figure  ,•  but  as  when  the 
Foot  Taziriro  engages,  the  Bull  firft  en- 
ters j  fo  in  the  Conteft  the  Cavaliero  al- 
ways makes  his  Appearance  on  the  Tlaza 
before  the  Bull.  His  Steed  was  a  manag'd 
Horfe  ;  mounted  on  which  he  made  his  En- 
try, attended  by  four  Footmen  in  rich  Li- 
veries ,-  who,  as  foon  as  their  Matter  had 
rid  round,  and  paid  his  Devoirs  to  all  the 
Spedators ,  withdrew  from  the  Dangers 
they  left  him  exposed  to.  The  Cavaliero 
having  thus  made  his  Bows,  and  received 
the  repeated  Vivas  of  that  vaft  Concourfe^ 
march'd  with  a  very  {lately  Air  to  the 
very  middle  of  the  Plaza^  there  {landing, 
ready  to  receive  his  Enemy  at  coming 
out. 

The  Door  being  open'd,  the  Bull  ap- 
peared ;  and  as  I  thought  with  a  fiercer  and 
ipore  threatning  Afpetft  than  any  of  the  for- 
2  men 


C  a69  ] 

mer.  He  ftar'd  around  him  for  a  confider- 
able  time^  fnuffing  up  the  Air,  and  fpurning 
the  Ground,  without  in  the  leaft  taking  no- 
tice of  his  Antagonift.  But  at  laft  fixing  his 
Eyes  upon  him,  he  made  a  full  run  at  the 
CavalierQy  which  he  mod  dexteroufly  avoid- 
ed, and  at  the  fame  moment  of  time,  paf- 
fing  by,  he  caft  a  Dart  that  ftuck  in  his 
Shoulders.  At  this  the  Shouts  and  Vivas 
were  repeated  j  and  I  obferved  a  Handker- 
chief wav'd  twice  or  thrice,  which,  as  I 
afterwards  underftood,  was  a  Signal  from 
the  Lady  of  his  Affections,  that  fhe  had 
beheld  him  with  Satisfa&ion.  I  took  notice 
that  the  Cavaliero  endeavour'd  all  he  could 
to  keep  afide  the  Bull,  for  the  Advantage 
of  the  Stroke,  when  putting  his  Horfe  on  a 
full  Career,  he  threw  another  Dart,  which 
fix'd  in  his  Side,  and  fo  enrag'd  the  Beaft, 
that  he  feem'd  to  renew  his  Attacks  with 
greater  Fury.  The  Cavaliero  had  behav'd 
himfelf  to  Admiration,  and  efcap'd  many 
Dangers  ,•  with  the  often  repeated  Acclama- 
tions o/iVwci-i  Viva  ;  when  at  laft  the  en- 
raged Creature  getting  his  Horns  between 
the  Horfe's  hinder  Legs,  Man  and  Horfe 
came  both  together  to  the  Ground. 

I  expefted  at  that  Moment  nothing  lefs 
than  Death  could  be  the  Iifue  ;  when  to  the, 
general  Surprize,  as  well  as  mine,  the  very 
civil  Brute,  Author  of  all  the  Mifchief,  on- 


C  *7°  1 

ly  withdrew  to  the  other  Side  of  the  Pla- 
za, where  he  flood  ftill,  (taring  about  him 
as  if  he  knew  nothing  of  the  Matter. 

The  Cavaliero  was  carry 'd  off  not  much 
hurt,  but  his  delicate  Beaft  fuffer'd  much  more. 
However  I  could  not  but  think  afterward, 
that  the  good  natur'd  Bull  came  fhort  of  fair 
Play.  If  I  may  be  pardon'd  the  Exprefli* 
on,  he  had  us'd  his  Adverfary  with  more 
Humanity  than  he  met  with  -,  at  leaft,  fince, 
after  he  had  the  Cavaliero  under,  he  gene- 
roufly  forfook  him  ;  I  think  he  might  have 
pleaded,  or  others  for  him,  for  better  Treat- 
ment than  he  after  met  with. 

For  as  the  Cavaliero  was  difabied  and 
carry'd  off,  the  Foot  Tauriro  enter  d  in  white 
Accoutrements,  as  before ;  but  he  flatter'd 
himfelf  with  an  eafier  Conqueft  than  he 
found :  there  is  always  on  thefe  Occafions, 
when  he  apprehends  any  imminent  Danger, 
a  Place  of  Retreat  ready  for  the  Foot  'Ian- 
riro ;  and  well  for  him  there  was  fo ;  this 
Bull  oblig'd  him  over  and  over  to  make 
Ufe  of  it.     Nor  was  he  able  at  laft  to  dis- 
patch him,  without  a  general  Afliftance  ,•  for 
I  believe  I  fpeak  within  Compafs,  when  I 
fay,  he  had  more  than  an  hundred  Darts 
ftuck  in  him.     And  fo  barbaroufly  was  he 
mangled,  and  flafh'd  befides,  that,  in  my 
Mind,  I  could  not  but  think  King  Philip  in 
the  Right,  when  he  faid,  That  it  was  a 
Cufiom  defervd  little  'Encouragement. 

Soon 


[  V1  ] 

Soon  after  this  Tauridore,  or  Bull-Feaft 
was  over,  I  had  a  Mind  to  take  a  pleafant 
Walk  to  a  little  Town,  calfd  Minai^  about 
three  Leagues  off;  but  I  was  fcarce  got  out 
of  la  Mancha,  when  an  Acquaintance  meet- 
ing me,  ask'd  where  I  was  going?  I  told 
him  to  Minai  ;  when  taking  me  by  the 
Hand,  Friend  Gorgio,  fays  he  in  Spanijh, 
Come  back  with  me ;  you  Jli all  not  go  a  Stride 
farther ;  there  are  Picarons  that  Way ;  you 
JJoall  not  go.  Inquiring,  as  we  went  back, 
into  his  Meaning,  he  told  me,  that  the  Day 
before,  a  Man,  who  had  received  a  Sum  of 
Money  in  Piftoles  at  la  Mancba,  was,  on 
the  Road,  fet  upon  by  fome,  who  had  got 
notice  of  it,  and  murdered  him  ;  that  not 
finding  the  Money  expe&ed  about  him  (for 
he  had  cautioufly  enough  left  it  in  a  Friend's 
Hands  at  la  Mancha)  they  concluded  he 
had  fwallowed  it ;  and  therefore  they  ript 
up  his  Belly,  and  open'd  every  Gut  ,•  but 
all  to  as  little  Purpofe.  This  diverted  my 
Walk  for  that  Time. 

But  fome  little  Time  after,  the  fame  Per- 
fon  inviting  me  over  to  the  fame  Place,  to 
fee  his  Melon-Grounds,  which  in  that  Coun- 
try are  wonderful  fine  and  pleafant ;  I  ac- 
cepted his  Invitation,  and  under  the  Advan- 
tage of  his  Company,  went  thither.  On 
the  Road  I  took  notice  of  a  Crofs  newly 
ere&ed,  and  a  Multitude  of  fmall  Stones  a- 
round  the  Foot  of  it :  Asking  the  Meaning 

where- 


I>72  3 

Whereof,  my  Friend  told  me,  that  it  was 
rais'd  for  a  Perfon  there  murder'd  (as  is  the 
Cuftom  throughout  Spain)  and  that  every 
good  Catholick  palling  by,  held  it  his  Du- 
ty to  caft  a  Stone  upon  the  Place,  in  De- 
teftation  of  the  Murder.  I  had  often  before 
taken  Notice  of  many  fuch  CrofTes:  but 
never  till  then  knew  the  Meaning  of  their 
JEre&ion,  or  the  Reafon  of  the  Heaps  of 
Stones  around  them. 

There  is  no  Place  in  all  Spain  more  fa- 
mous for  good  Wine  than  Sainte  Clemente 
de  la  Mancha  ;  nor  is  it  any  where  fold 
cheaper:  For  as  it  is  only  an  inland  Town, 
near  no  navigable  River,  and  the  People 
temperate  to  a  Proverb,  great  Plenty,  and  a 
fmall  Vend  muft  confequently  make  it  cheap* 
The  Wine  here  is  fo  famous,  that,  when  I 
came  to  Madrid^  I  faw  wrote  over  the 
Doors  of  raoft  Houfes  that  fold  Wine,  Vino 
Sainte  Clemente.  As  to  the  Temperance  of 
the  People,  I  muft  fay,  that  notwithftand- 
ing  thofe  two  excellent  Qualities  of  good 
and  cheap,  I  never  faw,  all  the  three  Years 
I  was  Prifoner  there,  any  one  Perfon  over- 
come with  Drinking. 

It  is  true,  there  may  be  a  Reafon,  and  a 
political  one,  aifign'd  for  that  Abftemiouf- 
nefs  of  theirs,  which  is  this,  That  if  any 
Man,  upon  any  Occaiion,  fliould  be  brought 
in  as  an  Evidence  againft  you,  if  you  can 
prove  that  he  was  ever  drunk,  it  will  in- 
validate 


[  m  3 

validate  his  whole  Evidence.  I  could  not 
but  think  this  a  grand  Improvement  upon  the 
Spartans.  They  made  their  Slaves  pur- 
pofely  drunk,  to  fihew  their  Youth  the  Fol- 
ly of  the  Vice  by  the  fottifh  Behaviour  of 
their  Servants  under  it:  But  they  never 
reach'd  to  that  noble  height  of  laying  a  Pe- 
nalty upon  the  Aggreflbr,  or  of  discoura- 
ging a  voluntary  Impotence  of  Reafon  by  a 
difreputable  Impotence  of  Intereft.  The 
Spaniard  therefore,  in  my  Opinion,  in  this 
exceeds  the  Spartan,  as  much  as  a  natural 
Beauty  exceeds  one  procured  by  Art ;  for 
tho'  Shame  may  fomewhat  influence  fome 
few,  Terrour  is  of  force  to  deter  all.  A 
Man,  we  have  feen  it,  may  fhake  Hands 
with  Shame ;  but  Inter  eft  ^  Fays  another 
Proverb^  will  never  lye.  A  wife  Inftitution 
therefore  doubtlefs  is  this  of  the  Spaniard ; 
but  fuch  as  I  fear  will  never  take  Place  in 
Germany,  Holland  *  France,  or  Great 
Britain. 

But  though  I  commend  their  Tempe- 
rance^ I  would  not  be  thought  by  any 
Meahs  to  approve  of  their  Bigotry.  Ifthere 
may  be  fuch  a  Thing  as  Intemperance  in 
Religion,  I  much  fear  their  Ebriety  in  that 
will  be  found  to  be  over-meafure.  Under 
the  notion  of  Devotion,  I  have  feeh  Men  a- 
mong  'em,  and  of  Senfe  too,  guilty  of  the 
grofleft  Intemperancies.  It  is  too  common 
T  to 


[  274  1 

to  be  a  rarity  to  fee  their  Dons  of  the  prime 
Quality  as  well  as  thofe  of  the  lower  Ranks, 
upon  meeting  a  Prieft  in  the  open  Streets,cdn- 
defcend  to  take  up  the  lower  part  of  his 
Veftment,  and  falute  it  with  Eyes  ere&ed 
as  if  they  look'd  upon  it  as  the  Seal  of  Sal- 
vation, 

When  the  A ve-B ell  is  heard,  the  Hearer 
muft  down  on  his  Knees  upon  the  very  Spot  ,• 
nor  is  he  allowed  the  fmall  Indulgence  of 
deferring  a  little,  till  he  can  recover  a  clean 
Place;  Dirtinefs  excufes  not,  nor  will  dirty 
Actions  by  any  means  exempt.    This  is  fo 
notorious,  that  even  at  the  Play-houfe,  in 
the  middle  of  a  Scene,  on  the  firft  found 
of  the  Bell,  the  A&ors  drop  their  Difcourfe, 
the    Auditors  fuperfede    the  indulging  of 
their  unfan&ified  Ears,   and  all    on   their 
Knees,   bend  their  Tongues,  if  not  their 
Hearts,  quite  a  different  way,  to  what  they 
juft  before  had  been  employ'd  in.    In  fliort, 
tho'  they  pretend  in  all  this  to  an  extraor- 
dinary Meafure  of  Zeal  and  real  Devotion ; 
no  Man,  that  lives  among  them  any  time, 
can  be  a  Profelyte  to  them  without  immola- 
ting his  Senfes  and  his  Reafon :  Yet  I  muft 
confefs,  while  I  have  feen  them  thus  delude- 
in  g  themfelves  mthJve  Marias,  I  cou'd  not 
refrain  throwing  up  my  Eyes  to  the  only 
proper  Objeft  of  Adoration,  in  commiferati- 
onoffuch  Delufions. 

The 


C  ^75  1 

The  Hours  of  the  Ave-TSell^  are  eight 
and  twelve  in  the  Morning,  and  fix  in  the 
Evening.  They  pretend  at  the  firfl:  to  fall 
down  to  beg  that  God  would  be  pleas'd  to 
profper  them  in  all  things  they  go  about 
that  Day.  At  twelve  they  return  Thanks 
for  their  Prefervation  to  that  time ;  and  at 
fix  for  that  of  the  whole  Day.  After  which, 
one  would  think  that  they  imagine  them- 
felves  at  perfect  Liberty ;  and  their  open 
Gallantries  perfectly  countenance  the  Ima- 
gination :  For  tho1  Adultery  is  look'd  upon 
as  a  grievous  Crime,  and  punifli'd  according- 
ly 5  yet  Fornication  is  foftned  with  the  title 
of  a  Venial  Sin,  and  they  feem  to  praitife  it 
under  that  Perfuafion. 

I  found  here,  what  Erafmus  ridicules 
with  fo  much  Wit  and  Delicacy,  the  Cu- 
ftom  of  burying  in  a  Francifcans  Habit, 
in  mighty  requeft.  If  they  can  for  that  pur- 
pofe  procure  an  old  one  at  the  price  of  a 
new  one ;  the  Purchafer  will  look  upon 
himfelf  a  provident  Chap,  that  has  fecur'd 
to  his  deceafed  Friend  or  Relation,  no  lefs 
than  Heaven  by  that  wife  Bargain. 

The  Evening  being  almoft  the  only  time 
of  Enjoyment  of  Company,  or  Conven- 
tion, every  body  in  Spain  then  greedily  feeks 
it ;  and  the  Streets  are  at  that  time  crowd- 
ed like  our  fined  Gardens  or  moft  private 
Walks.    On  one  of  thofe  Occafions,  I  met 

T  2  a 


E*76  3 

a  Don  of  my  Acquaintance  walking  but 
with  his  Sifters  $  and  as  I  thought  it  became 
an  Englifh  Cavalier,  I  faluted  him:  But  to 
my  Surprize  he  never  return'd  the  Civility; 
When  I  met  him  the  Day  after,  inftead  of 
an  Apology,  as  I  had  flatter'd  my  felf,  I 
received  a  Reprimand,  tho'  a  very  civil  one  $ 
telling  me  it  was  not  the  Cuftom  in  Spain^ 
nor  well  taken  of  any  one,  that  took  No* 
tice  of  any  who  were  walking  in  the  Com- 
pany of  Ladies  at  Night. 

But  a  Night  or  two  after,  I  found  by 
Experience,  that  if  the  Men  were  by  Cu- 
ftom prohibited  taking  Notice,  Women 
Were  not.  I  was  {landing  at  the  Door,  in 
the  cool  of  the  Evening,  when  a  Woman 
feemingly  genteel,  pafling  by,  calfd  me  by 
my  Name,  telling  me  lhe  wanted  to  fpeak 
With  me:  She  had  her  Mantilio  on;  fo 
that  had  I  had  Day-lrght,  I  could  have  only 
feen  one  Eye  of  her.  However  I  walk'd 
with  her  a  good  while,  without  being  able 
to  difcover  any  thing  of  her  Bufinefs,  nor 
pafs'd  there  between  us  any  thing  more  than  a 
Converfation  upon  indifferent  Matters.  Ne- 
verthelefs^  at  parting  flie  told  me  flie  ftiould 
pafs  by  again  the  next  Evening  •  and  if  I 
would  be  at  the  Door,  flie  would  give  me 
the  fame  Advantage  of  a  Converfation,  that 
feem'd  not  to  difpleafe  me.  Accordingly 
the  next  Night  fhe  came,  and  as  before  we 

walk'd 


[  V7  ] 

walk'd  together  in  the  privateft  parts  of  the 
Town  :  For  tho'  I  knew  her  not,  her  Dif- 
courfe  was  always  entertaining  and  full  of 
Wit,  and  her  Enquiries  not  often  improper. 
We  had  continu  a  this  Intercourfe  many 
Nights  together  ,  when  my  Landlady's 
Daughter  having  taken  Notice  of  it,  ftopt 
me  one  Evening,  and  would  not  allow  me 
to  ftand  at  the  ufual  Poft  of  Intelligence, 
faying,  with  a  good  deal  of  heat,  Don 
Gorgio,  take  my  Advice  ;  go  no  more  along 
with  that  Woman :  Tou  mayfoon  be  brought 
borne  deprived  of  your  Life  if  you  do*  I 
cannot  fay,  whether  fhe  knew  her;  but 
this  I  muft  fay,  flie  was  very  agreeable  in 
Wit  as  well  as  Perfon.  However  my  Land- 
lady and  her  Daughter  took  that  Opportu- 
nity of  giving  me  fo  many  Inftances  of  the 
fatal  Iffues  of  fuch  innocent  Converfations, 
(for  I  could  not  call  it  an  Intrigue)  that 
apprehenfive  enough  of  the  Danger,  on  lay- 
ing Circumftances  together,  I  took  their  Ad- 
vice, and  never  went  into  her  Company 
after, 

Sainte  Clement e  de  la  Mamha^  where  I 
fo  long  remain'd  a  Prifoner  of  War,  lies  in 
the  Road  from  Madrid  to  Valencia ;  and 
the  Duke  ofVendofme  being  ordered  to  the 
latter,  great  Preparations  were  made  for  his 
Entertainment,  as  he  pafsM  through.  He 
ftay'd  here  only  one  Night,  where  he  was 

T  3  ver¥ 


[.371] 

very  handfomely  treated  by  the  Corrigidore. 
He  was  a  tall  fair  Perform  and  very  fat, 
and  at  the  time  I  faw  him  wore  a  long  black 
Patch  over  his  left  Eye ,-  but  on  what  Oc- 
cafion  I  could  not  learn.  The  afterwards 
famous  Alberoni  (fince  made  a  Cardinal) 
was  in  his  Attendance  ;  as  indeed  the  Duke 
was  very  rarely  without  him.  I  remember 
that  very  Day  three  Weeks,  they  return'd 
through  the  fame  Place ;  the  Duke  in  his 
Herfe,  and  Alberoni  in  a  Coach,  paying  his 
laft  Duties,  That  Duke  was  a  prodigious 
Lover  of  Fifh,  of  which  having  eat  over 
heartily  at  Veneros^  in  the  Province  of  Va- 
lencia^ he  took  a  Surfeit,  and  died  in  three 
Days  time.  His  Corps  was  carrying  to  the 
Efcnrial,  there  to  be  buried  in  the  Tantha- 
on  among  their  Kings. 

The  Cajiilians  have  a  Privilege  by  Li- 
cence from  the  Pope,  which,  if  it  could  have 
been  converted  into  a  Prohibition,  might 
have  fav'd  that  Duke's  Life :  In  regard  their 
Country  is  wholly  inland,  and  the  River 
Tagus  famous  for  its  Poverty,  or  rather 
Barrennefs  ,•  their  Holy  Father  indulges 
the  Natives  with  the  Liberty,  in  lieu  of 
that  dangerous  Eatable,  of  eating  all  Lent 
time  the  Inwards  of  Cattle.  When  I  firffc 
heard  this  related,  I  imagin'd ,  that  the 
Garbidge  had  been  intended,  but  I  was 
foon  after  thus  re&ify'd,    by  Inwards  (for 

fo 


[  *79  ] 

fo  expre fly  fays  the  Licence  it  felf)  is  meant 
the  Heart,  the  Liver,  and  the  Feet. 

They  have  here  as  well  as  in  mod  other 
Parts  of  Spain,  Valencia  excepted,  the 
mod  wretched  Mufick  in  the  Univerfe. 
Their  Guitars,  if  not  their  Sole,  are  their 
darling  Inftruments,  and  what  they  moft 
delight  in  :  Tho'  in  my  Opinion  our  Englijh 
Sailors  are  not  much  amifs  in  giving  them 
the  Title  of  Strum  Strums.  They  are  little 
better  than  our  Jews-harps,  tho'  hardly 
half  fo  Mufical.  Yet  are  they  perpetually 
at  Nights  difturbing  their  Women  with  the 
Noife  of  them,  under  the  notion  and  name 
of  Serenadoes.  From  the  Barber  to  the 
Grandee  the  Infection  fpreads,  and  very 
often  with  the  fame  Attendant,  Danger: 
Night  Quarrels  and  Rencounters  being  the 
frequent  Refult.  The  true  born  Spani- 
ards reckon  it  a  part  of  their  Glory, 
to  be  jealous  of  their  Miftrefles,  which 
is  too  often  the  Forerunner  of  Mur- 
ders ;  or  at  beft  attended  with  many  other 
very  dangerous  Inconveniences.  And  yet 
bad  as  their  Mufick  is,  their  Dancing  is  the 
reverfe.  I  have  feen  a  Country  Girl  ma- 
nage her  Caftanets  with  the  graceful  Air  of 
a  Dutchefs,  and  that  not  to  common  Mu- 
fick ;  but  to  Peoples  beating  or  druming  a 
Tune  with  their  Hands  on  a  Table.  I  have 
feen  half  a  Dozen  couple  at  a  time  dance  to 
the  like  in  excellent  order. 

T4  I 


[  *%o  ] 

I  |uft  now  diftinguifti'd,  by  an  Exception, 
fche  Mufick  of  Valencia ,  where  alone  I  ex- 
perienced the  ufe  of  the  Violin  ;  which  tho* 
j  cannot,  in  refpeft  to  other  Countries,  call 
good  5  yet  in  refpe&  to  the  other  parts 
of  Spain*  I  rauft  acknowledge  it  much  the 
befh  In  my  Account  of  that  City,  I  omit- 
ted to  fpeak  of  it ;  therefore  now  to  fupply 
that  Defeat,  I  will  fpeak  of  the  beft  I  heard, 
which  was  on  this  unfortunate  Ocpafion  s 
Several  Natives  of  that  Country  having 
received  Sentence  of  Death  for  their  Adhe- 
rence to  King  Charles^  were  accordingly 
ordered  to  the  Place  of  Execution.  It  is 
the  Cuftom  there,  on  all  fuch  Occafions, 
for  all  the  Mufick  of  the  City  to  meet  near 
the  Gallows,  and  play  the  moft  affe&ing 
and  melancholy  Airs,  to  the  very  approach 
of  the  Condemn'd  $  and  really  the  Mufick 
was  fp  moving,  it  heightened  the  Scene  of 
Sorrow,  and  brought  Companion  ipto  the 
Eyes  of  even  Enemies. 

As  to  the  Coiidemn'd,  they  came  ftripfc 
of  their  own  Cloaths,  and  coverM  with 
black  Frocks,  in  which  they  were  led  a- 
long  the  Streets  to  the  Place  of  Execution, 
the  Friars  praying  all  the  way,  When 
they  came  through  any  Street,  where  any 
pubiiek  Images  were  fix'd,  they  ftay'd  be- 
fore em  fpme  reafonable  time  in  Prayer  with 
the  Friars,     Wlien  they  are  arrived  at  the 

fatal 


fatal  Place,  thofe  Fathers  leave  'em  not, 
but  continue  praying  and  giving  them 
ghoftly  Encouragement,  ftanding  upon  the 
rounds  of  the  Ladder  till  they  are  turn'd  off. 
The  Hangman  always  wears  a  filver  Badge 
of  a  Ladder  to  diftinguifh  his  Profeflion  z 
But  his  manner  of  executing  his  Office  had 
fomewhat  in  it  too  lingular  to  allow  of  Si- 
lence. When  he  had  ty'd  faft  the  Hands  of 
the  Criminal,  he  refted  his  Knee  upon  them, 
and  with  one  Hand  on  the  Criminal's  No- 
ftrils,  to  flop  his  Breath  the  fooner,  threw 
himfelf  off  the  Ladder  along  with  the  dying 
Party.  This  he  doe$  to  expedite  his  Fate; 
tho1  confidering  the  Force,  I  wonder  it  does 
not  tear  Head  and  Body  afunder  ^  which 
yet  I  never  heard  that  it  did. 

But  to  return  to  laMancbai  I  had  been 
there  now  upwards  of  twoYears^much  divert- 
ed with  the  good  Humour  and  Kindnefs  of 
the  Gentlemen,  and  daily  pleafed  with  the 
Converfation  of  the  Nuns  of  the  Nunnery 
oppofite  to  my  Lodgings ,-  when  walking 
one  Day  alone  upon  the  Tlazay  I  found 
my  felf  accofted  by  a  Ckrico*  At  the  firft 
Attack,  he  told  me  his  Country :  But  added, 
that  he  now  came  from  Madrid  with  a 
¥ctenty  that  was  his  Word,  from  Tedro 
de  Diojy  Deaq  of  the  Inquifition,  to  endea- 
vour the  Converfion  of  any  of  the  Jingli/h 
Prifoners  |  that  being  an  Irijhman^  as  a  fort 

of 


[  28a] 

of  a  Brother,  he  had  conceived  a  Love  for 
the  Englijh,  and  therefore  more  eagerly 
embraced  the  Opportunity,  which  the  Holy 
Inquifition  had  put  into  his  Hands  for  the 
bringing  over,  to  Mother  Church  as  many 
Hereticks  as  he  could  ;  that  having  heard  a 
very  good  Character  of  me,  he  fhould  think 
himfelf  very  happy,  if  he  could  be  inftru- 
mental  in  my  Salvation ;  cc  It  is  very  true, 
"  continud  he,  I  have  lately  had  the  good 
cc  Fortune  to  convert  many  ,•  and  beiides 
c<  the  Candour  of  my  own  Difpofition,  I 
<c  muft  tell  you,  that  I  have  a  peculiar  knack 
<c  at  Converfion,  which  very  few,  if  any, 
<c  ever  could  refift.  I  am  going  upon  the 
cc  fame  work  into  Murcia  ;  but  your  good 
cc  Character  has  fix'd  me  in  my  Refolution 
<c  of  preferring  your  Salvation  to  that  of 
cc  others. 

To  this  very  long,  and  no  lefs  furprizing 
Addrefs,  I  only  returned,  that  it  being  an 
Affair  of  moment,  it  would  require  fome 
Confideration  $  and  that  by  the  time  he  re- 
turn'd  from  Murcia,  I  might  be  able  to  re- 
turn him  a  proper  Anfwer.  But  not  at  all  fa- 
tisfy'd  with  this  Reply ;  cc  Sir,  fays  he, 
cc  God  Almighty  is  all-fufficient :  This  mo- 
cc  ment  is  too  precious  to  be  loft ;  he  can 
cc  turn  the  Heart  in  the  twinkling  of  an 
cc  Eye,  as  well  as  in  twenty  Years.  Hear 
"  me  then  •>  mind  what  I  fay  to  you  :  I  will 
cc  convince  you  immediately.     You  Here- 

"  ticks 


<c  ticks  do  not  believe  in  Tranfubftantia- 
<c  tion ,  and  yet  did  not  our  Saviour  fay  in 
"  fo  many  Words,  Hoc  eft  corpus  meum? 
"  And  if  you  don't  believe  him,  don't  you 
cc  give  him  the  Lye  ?  Befides,  does  not  one 
cc  of  the  Fathers  fay,  Dem^  qui  eft  omnis 
"  Veritas^  von  pot  eft  dicere  falfiim  ?  He 
went  on  at  the  fame  ridiculous  rate  ;  which 
foon  convinced  me,  he  was  a  thorough 
Rattle.  However,  as  a  Clerico^  and  con- 
fequently  in  this  Country,  a  Man  dangerous 
to  difoblige  ,  I  invited  him  home  to 
Dinner  $  where  when  I  had  brought  him,  I 
found  I  had  no  way  done  an  unacceptable 
thing  ;  for  my  Landlady  and  her  Daughter, 
feeing  him  to  be  a  Clergyman,  receiv'd  him 
with  a  vaftdeal  of  Refpeft  and  Pleafure. 

Dinner  being  over,  he  began  to  enter- 
tain me  with  a  Detail  of  the  many  wonder- 
ful Converlions  he  had  made  upon  obfti- 
nate  Hereticks  -y  that  he  had  convinced  the 
moft  Stubborn,  and  had  fuch  a  Noftrum> 
that  he  would  undertake  to  convert  any 
one.  Here  he  began  his  old  round,  inter- 
mixing his  Harangue  with  fuch  fcraps  and 
raw  fentences  of  fuftian  Latin^  that  I  grew 
weary  of  his  Converfation ;  fo  pretending 
fome  Bufincfs  of  confequence,  I  took  leave, 
and  left  him  and  my  Landlady  together. 

I  did  not  return  till  pretty  late  in  the  E- 
vening,  with  Intent  to  give  him  Time  e- 
nough  to  think  his  own  Vifit  tedious  ,•  but 

i  to 


C  284-  ] 

to  my  great  Surprize,  I  found  my  Irijh  Mif- 
fionary  ftill  on  the  Spot,  ready  to  dare  me 
to  the  Encounter,  and  refolv'd,  like  a  true 
Son  of  the  Church  militant,  to  keep  laft  in 
the  Field  of  Battle.  As  foon  as  I  had  feat- 
ed  my  felf,  he  began  again  to  tell  me,  how 
good  a  Character  my  Landlady  had  given 
me,  which  had  prodigioufly  increafed  his 
Ardour  of  faving  my  Soul ;  that  he  could 
not  anfwer  it  to  his  own  Character,  as  well 
as  mine,  to  be  negligent ,-  and  therefore  he 
had  enter'd  into  a  Refolution  to  ftay  my 
Coming,  though  it  had  been  later.  To  all 
which,  I  returnd  him  Abundance  of  Thanks 
for  his  good  Will,  but  pleading  Indifpofition 
and  want  of  Reft,  after  a  good  deal  of  civil 
Impertinence,  I  once  more  got  rid  of  him ; 
at  leaft,  I  took  my  Leave,  and  went  to  Bed, 
leaving  him  again  Mafter  of  the  Field  ;  for 
I  underftood  next  Morning,  that  he  ftay'd 
fome  Time  after  I  was  gone,  with  my  good 
Landlady. 

Next  Morning  the  Nuns  of  the  Nunnery 
oppofite,  having  taken  Notice  of  the  Cleri- 
cos  Ingrefs,  long  Vifit,  and  late  Egrefs,  fent 
to  know  whether  he  was  my  Country-man ; 
with  many  other  Queftions,  which  I  was 
not  then  let  into  the  Secret  of.  To  all  which 
I  return'd,  that  he  was  no  Country-man 
of  mine,  but  an  Ifijh-man,  and  fo  perfectly  a 
Stranger  to  me^  that  I  knew  no  more  of 
!iim  than  what  I  had  from  his  own  Mouth* 

that' 


C  *8*  1 

that  he  was  going  into  Murcia.  What  the 
Meaning  of  this  Enquiry  was,  I  could  never 
learn  ,•  but  I  could  not  doubt,  but  it  proceed- 
ed from  their  great  Care  of  their  Vicino^ 
as  they  call'd  me  ;  a  Mark  of  their  E- 
fteera,  and  of  which  I  was  not  a  little 
proud. 

As  was  my  ufual  Cuftom,  I  had  been  ta- 
king my  Morning  Walk,  and  had  not  been 
long  come  home  in  order  to  Dinner,  when 
in  again  drops  my  Irijh  Clerico  :  I  was  con- 
founded, and  vexed,  and  he  could  hot  a- 
void  taking  Notice  of  it  ^  neverthelefs,  with- 
out the  leaft  Alteration  of  Countenance,  he 
took  bis  Seat ;  and  on  my  faying,  in  a  cold 
and  indifferent  Tone,  that  I  imagin'd  he  had 
been  got  to  Mar  eta  before  this  ;  he  reply'd, 
with  a  natural  Fleer,  that  truely  he  was 
going  to  Murcia^  but  his  Confcience  prick- 
ed him,  and  he  did  find  that  he  could  not 
go  away  with  any  Satisfaction,  or  Peace  of 
Mind,  without  making  me  a  perfect  Con- 
vert ;  that  he  had  plainly  difcovered  in  me 
a  good  Difpofition,  and  had,  for  that  ve- 
ry Reafon,  put  himfelf  to  the  Charge  of 
Man  and  Mule,  to  the  Bifliop  of  Cuenca  for 
a  Licenfe,  under  his  Hand,  for  my  Conver- 
fion  :  For  in  Spaiu^  all  private  MifTionaries 
are  obliged  to  ask  Leave  of  the  next  Bifliop, 
before  they  dare  enter  upon  any  Enterprise 
of  this  Nature. 


I 


C  ^86] 

I  was  more  confounded  at  this  laft  Aflu- 
rance  of  the  Man  than  at  all  before  ;  and  it 
put  me  dire&ly  upon  refle&ing,  whether 
any,  and  what  Inconveniencies  might  en- 
fue,  from  a  Rencounter  that  I,  at  firft,  con- 
ceived ridiculous,  but  might  now  reafona- 
bly  begin  to  have  more  dangerous  Appre- 
henfions  of.  I  knew,  by  the  Articles  of 
War,  all  Perfons  are  exempted  from  any 
Power  of  the  Inquifition  ,•  but  whether  car- 
rying on  a  Part  in  fuch  a  Farce,  might  not 
admit,  or  at  leaft  be  liable  to  fome  dange- 
rous Conftru&ion,  was  not  imprudently 
now  to  be  confidered.  Though  I  was  not  fear- 
ful, yet  I  refolv'd  to  be  cautious.  Where- 
fore not  making  any  Anfwer  to  his  Declara- 
tion about  the  Bifhop,  he  took  Notice  of  it ; 
and  to  raife  a  Confidence,  he  found  expiring, 
began  to  tell  me,  that  his  Name  was  Mur- 
tough  Hrennan,  that  he  was  born  near  Kil- 
fanny,  of  a  very  confiderable  Family.  This 
laft  part  indeed,  when  I  came  to  Madrid, 
I  found  pretty  well  confirm'd  in  a  confide- 
rable Manner.  However,  taking  Notice 
that  he  had  alter'd  his  Tone  of  leaving  the 
Town,  and  that  inftead  of  it,  he  was  ad- 
vancing fomewhat  like  an  Invitation  of  him- 
felf  to  Dinner  the  next  Day,  I  refolv'd  to 
fliow  my  felf  fhy  of  him  •  and  thereupon 
abruptly,  and  without  taking  any  Leave,  I 
left  the  Room,  and  my  Landlady  and  him 
together. 

Three 


[*87] 

Thk.ee  or  four  Days  had  palTed,  every 
one  of  which,  he  never  fail'd  my  Lodgings ,- . 
not  at  Dinner  Time  only,  but  Night  and 
Morning  too  j  from  all  which  I  began  to 
fufpeft,  that  inftead  of  my  Converfion, 
he  had  fix'd  upon  a  Re-converfion  of  my 
Landlady.  She  was  not  young,  yet,  for  a 
black  Woman,  handfom  enough ;  and  her 
Daughter  very  pretty  :  I  entered  into  a  Re- 
folution  to  make  my  Obfervations,  and 
watch  them  all  at  a  Diftance  ;  neverthelefs 
carefully  concealing  myjealoufy.  However, 
I  muft  confefs,  I  was  not  a  little  pleas'd,  that 
any  Thing  could  divert  my  own  Perfecti- 
on. He  was  now  no  longer  my  Gueft,  but 
my  Landlady's,  with  whom  I  found  him  fo 
much  taken  up,  that  a  little  Care  might  fru- 
ftrate  all  his  former  impertinent  Importuni- 
ties on  the  old  Topick. 

But  all  my  Sufpicions  were  very  foon 
after  turned  into  Certainties,  in  this  Manner  : 
I  had  been  abroad,  and  returning  fomewhat 
weary,  I  went  to  my  Chamber,  to  take, 
what  in  that  Country  they  call,  a  Cejio,  up- 
on my  Bed  :  I  got  in  unfeen,  or  without 
feeing  any  Body,  but  had  fcarce  laid  my 
felf  down,  before  my  young  Landlady,  as  I 
jeftingly  us'd  to  call  the  Daughter,  rufhing 
into  my  Room,  threw  her  feJf  down  on  the 
Floor,  bitterly  exclaiming.  I  ftarted  off 
my  Bed,  and  immediately  running  to  the 
Door,  who  fhould  I  meet  there  but  my  I- 

rijh 


[.88  ] 

Yijh  Clerico,  without  his  Habit,  and  in  his 
Shirt  ?  I  could  not  doubt,  by  the  T)ijhabil- 
it  of  the  ClericO)  but  the  young  Creature 
had  Reafon  enough  for  her  Paffion,  which 
render'd  me  quite  unable  to  matter  mine  3 
Wherefore  as  he  flood  with  his  Back  next  the 
Door,  I  thruft  him  in  that  ghoflly  Plight  in- 
to the  open  Street. 

I  might,  with  leifure  enough,   have  re* 
pented  that  precipitate  Piece  of  Indifcretion  ,• 
if  it  had  not  been  for  his  bad  Chara&er,  and 
the    favourable    Opinion    the    Town  had 
conceived  of  me ;   for  he  inordinately  ex- 
claim'd  againft  me,  calling  me  Heretick,  and 
telling  the  People,  who  were  foon  gathered 
round  him ,  that  coming  to  my  Lodgings  on 
the  charitable  work  of  Converfion,   I  had 
thus  abus'd  him,  flript  him  of  his  Habit, 
and  then  turn'd  him  out  of  Doors.    The 
Nuns,  on  their  hearing  the  Outcries  he  made, 
came  running  to  their  Grates,   to  enquire 
into  the  Matter,  and  when  they  underftood 
it,  as  he  was  pleas'd  to  relate  it  ,•   though 
they  condemn'd  my  Zeal,   they  pity'd  my 
Condition.     Very  well  was  it  for  me,  that 
I  flood  more  than  a  little  well  in  the  good 
Opinion  of  the  Town  5  among  the  Gentry, 
by  my  frequent  Converfation,  and  the  in- 
ferior Sort  by  my  charitable  Diftributions ; 
for  nothing  can  be  more  dangerous,  or  a 
nearer  Way  to  violent  Fate,  than  to  infult 
one  of  the  Clergy  in  Spain,  and  efpecial- 


[  *89  ] 

ly,  for  fuch  an  one  as  they  entitle  a  Here- 
tick. 

My  old  Landlady  (I  fpeak  in  refped:  to 
her  Daughter)  however  formerly  ray  Teem- 
ing Friend,  came  in  a  violent  Paffion,  and 
wrenching  the  Door  out  of  my  Hands,  open- 
ed it,  and  pull'd  her  Clerico  in  ;  and  fo  foon 
as  fhe  had  done  this,  fhe  took  his  Part,  and 
railed  fo  bitterly  at  me,  that  I  had  no  Reafoii 
longer  to  doubt  her  thorough  Converfion, 
under  the  full  Power  of  his  Miffion.  How- 
ever the  young  one  flood  her  Ground,  and 
by  all  her  ExpreiHons,  gave  her  many  In- 
quirers Reafon  enough  to  believe,  all  was 
not  Matter  of  Faith  that  the  Clerico  had  ad- 
vanced. Neverthelefs,  holding  it  advifea- 
ble  to  change  my  Lodgings,  and  a  Friend 
confirming  my  Refolutions,  I  removed  that 
Night. 

The  Clerico  having  put  on  his  upper  Gar- 
ments, was  run  away  to  the  Corrigidor^  in 
a  violent  Fury,  revolving  to  be  early,  as 
well  knowing,  that  he  who  tells  his  Story 
firft,  has  the  Profpeft  of  telling  it  to  double 
Advantage.  When  he  came  there,  he  told 
that  Officer  a  thoufand  idle  Stories,  and  in 
the  worft  Manner  ,•  repeating  how  I  had  a- 
bus'd  him,  and  not  him  only,  but  my  poor 
Landlady,  for  taking  his  Part.  The  Corri- 
gidor  was  glad  to  hear  it  all,  and  with  an 
officious  Ear  fifli'd  for  a  great  deal  more; 
expecting,  according  to  Ufage,  at  laft  to 
U  fqueeze 


[  a9o  ] 

fqueeze  a  Sum  of  Money  out  of  me.     How- 
ever he  told  the  Clerico,  that,  as  I  was  a  Pri- 
foner  of  War,  he  had  no  direct  Power  over 
me ;  but  if  he  would  immediately  write  to 
the   Prefident    Kovquillo,    at  Madrid,    he 
Would  not  fail  to  give  his  immediate  Orders, 
according  to  which  he  would  as  readily  ad 
againft  me. 

The   Clerico  refolv'd  to  purfue  his  old 
Maxim,  and  cry  out  firft ;    and  fo  taking 
the  Corrigidor$  Advice,  he  wrote  away  to 
Madrid  directly.     In  the  mean  Time  the 
People  in  the  Town,  both  high  and  low, 
fome  out  of  Curiolity,  fome  out  of  Friend- 
ship, purfu'd  their  Enquiries  into  the  Reality 
of  the  Fafts.     The  old  Landlady  they  could 
make  little  of  to  my  Advantage ;  but  when- 
ever the  young  one  came  to  the  Queftion, 
fhe  always  left  them  with  thefe  Words  in 
her  Mouth,  ElcDiaboh  en  forma  del  Cleri- 
co, which  rendring  Things  more  than  a  lit- 
tle cloudy  on  the  Clerico's  Side,  he  was  ad- 
vis'd  and  prefs'd  by  his  few  Friends,  as  faft 
as  he  could  to  get  out  of  Town ,-  Nuns,  Cler- 
gy,  and  every  Body  taking  Part  againft 
him,  excepting  his  new  Convert,  my  old 
Landlady. 

The  Day  after,  as  I  was  fitting  with  a 
Friend  at  my  new  Quarters,  Maria  (for 
that  was  the  Name  of  my  Landlady's  Daugh- 
ter) came  running  in  with  thefe  Words  in 
her  Mouth,  El  Clerico>  el  Clerico,  paffa  la 

Calk. 


Calk.  We  haften'd  to  the  Window;  out  of 
which  we  beheld  the  Clerico^  Mttrtoiigh 
^Brennan^  pitifully  mounted  on  the  Back  of 
a  very  poor  Afs  (for  they  would  neither  let, 
nor  lend  him  a  Mule  through  all  the  Town) 
his  Legs  almoft  refted  on  the  Ground,  for 
he  was  lufty,  as  his  Afs  was  little  ,•  and  a 
Fellow  with  a  large  Cudgel  march'd  a-foot, 
driving  his  Afs  along.  Never  did  Sancha 
jPancba>  on  his  EmbafTage  to  T)ulcineay 
make  fuch  a  defpicable,  out  of  the  way  Fi- 
gure, as  our  Clerico  did  at  this  Time.  And 
what  increas'd  our  Mirth  was,  their  telling 
me,  that  our  Clerico^  like  that  Squire  (tho* 
upon  his  own  Prieft-Errantry)  was  a&ually 
on  his  March  to  Tobofo,  a  Place  five  Leagues 
off,  famous  for  the  Nativity  of  cDulcinea> 
the  Object  of  the  PaiTion  of  that  celebrated 
Hero  T)on  Quixct.  So  I  will  leave  our  Cle- 
rico on  his  Journey  to  Murcia^  to  relate 
the  unhappy  Sequel  of  this  ridiculous  Af- 
fair. 

I  have  before  faid,  that,  by  the  Advice 
of  the  Corrigidor,  our  Clerico  had  wrote  to 
T)on  Ronquillo  at  Madrid.  About  a  Fort- 
night alter  his  Departure  from  la  Mancha, 
I  was  fitting  alone  in  my  new  Lodgings, 
when  two  Algiiizils  ,(Officers  under  the 
Corrigidor,  and  in  the  Nature  of  our  Bailiffs) 
came  into  my  Pvoora,  but  very  civilly,  to 
tell  me,  that  they  had  Orders  to  carry  me 
away  to  Prifon  j  but  at  the  fame  Moment 
U  2  they 


t *9»  ] 

they  advisM  me,  not  to  be  afraid  ,•  for  they 
had  obferved,  that  the  whole  Town  was 
concern'd  at  what  the  Corrigidor  and  Ckrico 
had  done  -y  adding,  that  it  was  their  Opini- 
on, that  I  fliould  find  fo  general  a  Friend- 
ship, that  I  need  not  be  apprehenfive  of  any 
Danger.  With  thefe  plaufible  Speeches, 
though  I  afterwards  experienced  the  Truth 
of  them,  I  refign  d  my  felf,  and  went  with 
them  to  a  much  clofer  Confinement, 

I  had  not  been  there  above  a  Day  or  two, 
before  many  Gentlemen  of  the  Place  fent  to 
me,  to  affure  me,  they  were  heartily  affli&ed 
at  my  Confinement,  and  refolv'd  to  write  in 
my  Favour  to  Madrid;  but  as  it  was  not 
fafe,  nor  the  Cuftom  in  Spain^  to  vifit  thofe 
In  my  prefent  Circumftances,  they  hoped  I 
would  not  take  it  amifs,  fince  they  were  bent 
to  ad:  all  in  their  Power  towards  my  Deli- 
verance $  concluding  however  with  their 
Advice,  that  I  would  not  give  one  Real  of 
Plata  to  the  Corrigidor>  whom  they  hated, 
but  confide  in  their  ailiduous  Interpofal. 
Don  Pedro  de  Ortega  in  particular,  the 
Perfon  that  perform'd  the  Part  of  the  Tati- 
riro  on  Horfeback,  fometime  before,  fent 
me  Word,  he  would  not  fail  to  write  to  a 
Relation  of  his,  of  the  firft  Account  in  Ma- 
drid)  and  fo  reprefent  the  Affair,  that  I 
fhould  not  long  be  debarred  my  old  Ac- 
quaintance* 

It 


[  293  ] 

It  may  adminifter,   perhaps,   Matter  of 
Wonder,  that  Spaniards •,  Gentlemen  of  the 
ftancheft  Pun&ilio,  fhould  make  a  Scruple, 
and  excufe  themfelves  from  vifiting  Perfons 
under  Confinement,  when,  according  to  all 
Chriftian  Acceptation,  fuch  a  Circumftance 
would  render  fuch  a  Vifit,  not  charitable  on- 
ly, but  generous.     But  though  Men  of  vul- 
gar Spirits  might,  from  the  Narrownefs  of 
their   Views,    form  fuch  infipid  Excufes3 
thofe  of  thefe  Gentlemen,  I  very  well  knew, 
proceeded  from  much  more  excufable  To- 
picks.     I  was  committed  under  the  Accufa- 
tion  of  having  abus'd  a  facred  Perfon,   one 
of  the  Clergy ;  and  though,   as  a  Prifoner 
of  War,  I  might  deem  my  felf  exempt  from 
the  Power  of  the  Inquifition  ->  yet  how  far 
one  of  that  Country,  vifiting  a  Perfon,  fo 
accufed,  might  be  efteemed  culpable,  was  a 
confideration  in  that  dangerous  Climate,  far 
from  deferving  to  be  flighted.   To  me  there- 
fore, who  well  knew  the  Cuftoms  of  the 
Country,  and  the  Temper  of  its  Country- 
men, their  Excufes  were  not  only  allowable., 
but  acceptable  alfo  -y  for,  without  calling  in 
Queftion  their  Charity,  I  verily  believ'd  I 
might  fafely  confide  in  their  Honour; 

Accordingly,  after  I  had  been  a  clofe 
Prifoner  one  Month  to  a  Day,  I  found  the 
Benefit  of  thefe  Gentlemens  Promifes  and 
Solicitations.  Purfuant  to  which,  an  Or- 
der was  brought  for  my  immediate  Dif- 
U  i  charge; 


[  *94  ] 

charge;  notwithftanding,  the  new  Convert, 
my  old  Landlady,  did  ail  fhe  could  tbmake 
her  appearing  agaihft  me  effe&ual,  to  the 
Height  of  her  Prejudice  and  Malice,  even 
while  the  Daughter,  as  fenfible  of  my  In- 
nocence, and  acting  with  a  much  better  Con- 
fcience,  endeavoured  as  much  to  juftify  me, 
againft  both  the  Threats  and  Perfuafions  of 
the  Ccrrigidor,  and  his  few  Accomplices, 
though  her  own  Mother  made  one. 

After  Receipt  of  this  Order  for  my  En- 
largement, I  was  mightily  prefs'd  by  Don 
Felix,  and  others  of  my  Friends,  to  go  to 
Madrid,  and  enter  my  Complaint  againft 
the  Corrigidor  and  the  Clerico,  as  a  Thing 
highly  effential  to  my  own  future  Security. 
^Without  asking  Leave  therefore  of  the  Cor- 
rigidcr,  or  in  the  leaft  acquainting  him  with 
it,  I  fet  out  from  la  Mancha,  and,  as  I  after- 
wards underftood,  to  the  terrible  Alarm  of 
that  griping  Officer,-  who  was  under  the 
greateft  Confirmation,  when  he  heard  I 
was  gone ;  for  as  he  knew  very  well,  that 
he  had  done  more  than  he  could  juftify,  he 
was  very  apprehenfive  of  any  Complaint ; 
well  knowing,  that  as  he  was  hated  as  much 
as  I  was  beloved,  he  might  afliire  himfelf  of 
the  Want  of  that  Affiftance  from  the  Gen- 
tlemen, which  I  had  experienced. 

So  foon  as  I  arrived  at  Madrid,  I  made 
it  my  Bufinefs  to  enquire  out,  and  wait  up- 
on Father  Fahy,  Chief  of  the  Irijh  College. 

He 


C  295  1 

He  received  me  very  courteoufly  •  but  when 
I  acquainted  him  with  the  Treatment  I  had 
met  with  from  Brenmn,  and  had  given  him 
an  Account  of  his  other  fcandalous  Behavi- 
our, I  found  he  was  no  Stranger  to  the  Man, 
or  his  Chara&er  ;  for  he  foon  confirmed  to 
me  the  Honour  Tirennan  firft  boafted  of,  his 
confiderable  Family,  by  faying,  that  fcarce 
an  Affize  paffed  in  his  own  Country,  with- 
out two  or  three  of  that  Name  receiving 
at  the  Gallows  the  juft  Reward  of  their  De- 
merits. In  fhort,  not  only  Father  Faby,  but 
all  the  Clergy  of  that  Nation  at  Madrid* 
readily  fubfcribed  to  this  Chara&er  of 
him,  That  be  was  a  Scandal  to  their 
Country. 

After  this,  I  had  nothing  more  to  do, 
but  to  get  that  Father  to  go  with  me  to  Pe- 
dro de  Dios,  who  was  the  Head  of  the  2)0- 
minican  Cloyfter,  and  Dean  of  the  Inquifi- 
tion.  He  readily  granted  my  Requeft,  and 
when  we  came  there,  in  a  Manner  unexpect- 
ed, reprefcnted  to  the  Dean,  that  having 
fome  good  Difpofitions  towards  Mother- 
Church,  1  had  been  diverted  from  them,  he 
feared,  by  the  evil  Practices  of  one  Mur- 
tough  Sreman9  a  Countryman  of  his,  tho* 
a  Scandal  to  his  Country  j  that  under  a  Pre- 
tence of  feeking  my  Converfion,  he  had  lay'd 
himfelf  open  in  amoft  beaftly  Manner,  fuch 
as  would  have  fet  a  Catholick  into  a  vile 
Opinion  of  their  Pveligion,  and  much  more 
U  4  one 


[  '96  ] 

one  that  was  yet  a  Heretick.  The  Dean 
had  hardly  Patience  to  hear  Particulars  ; 
but  as  foon  as  my  Friend  had  ended  his  Nar- 
ration, he  immediately  gave  his  Orders,  pro- 
hibiting Mitrtotigh's  faying  any  more  MafTes, 
either  in  Madrid^  or  any  other  Place  in 
Spain,  This  indeed  was  taking  away  the 
poor  Wretches  fole  Subfiftence,  and  put- 
ting him  juft  upon  an  Equality  with  his  De- 
merits. 

I  took  the  fame  Opportunity  to  make  my 
Complaints  of  the  Corrigidor ;  but  his  Term 
expiring  very  foon,  and  a  Prpcefs  being 
likely  to  be  chargeable,  I  was  advifed  to 
let  it  drop.  So  having  effe&ed  what  I  came 
for,  I  returned  to  my  old  Station  at  la  Man- 
cha. 

When  I  came  back,  I  found  a  new  Cor- 
figidor^  as  I  had  been  told  there  would,  by 
the  Dean  of  the  Inquifition,  who,  *at  the 
fame  Time,  advifed  nie  to  wait  on  him.  I 
did  fo,  foon  after  my  Arrival,  and  then  ex- 
perienced the  Advice  to  be  well  intended  ; 
the  Dean  having  wrote  a  Letter  to  him,  to 
order  him  to  treat  me  with  all  Manner  of 
Civility.  He  fliow'd  me  the  very  Letter, 
and  it  was  in  fuch  particular  and  obliging 
Terms,  that  1  could  not  but  perceive  he  had 
taken  a  Refolution,  ifpoffible,  to  eradicate 
all  the  evil  Imprefiions,  that  Murtougtis  Be- 
haviour might  have  given  too  great  Oc~ 
cafion  for,    This  ferv'd  to  confirm  me  in  an 

Qb- 


[  *97  1 

Obfervation  that  I  had  long  before  made, 
That  a  Proteftant,  who  will  prudently 
keep  his  Sentiments  in  his  own  Breaft,  may 
command  any  Thing  in  Spain ;  where  their 
ftiff  Bigotry  leads  'em  naturally  into  that  o- 
ther  Miftake,  That  not  to  oppofe,  is  to  affent. 
Befides,  it  is  generally  among  them,  almoft 
a  work  of  Supererogation  to  be  even  inftru- 
mental  in  the  Conversion  of  one  they  call  a 
Heretick.  To  bring  any  fuch  back  to  what 
they  call  Mother  Church,  nothing  fliall  be 
fpard,  nothing  thought  too  much:  And  if 
you  have  Infincerity  enough  to  give  them 
Hopes,  you  ihall  not  only  live  in  Eafe,  but 
in  Pleafure  and  Plenty. 

I  had  entertain'd  fome  thoughts  on  my 
Journey  back,  of  taking  up  my  old  Quar- 
ters at  the  Widow's,-  but  found  her  fo 
intirely  converted  by  her  Ckrico,  that 
there  wou'd  be  no  room  to  expeft  Peace: 
For  which  Reafon,  with  the  help  of  my 
fair  Vicinos,  and  T>on  Felix,  I  took  another, 
where  I  had  not  been  long,  before  I  receiv- 
ed an  unhappy  Account  of  Mwtougb's  Con- 
dud  in  Murcia.  It  feems  he  had  kept  his 
Refolution  in  going  thither ;  where  meeting 
with  fome  of  his  own  Country  men,though  he 
found  'em  ftanch  good  Catholicks,  he  fo 
far  inveigled  himfelf  into  'em,  that  he 
brought  them  all  •  into  a  foul  chance  for 
their  Lives.  There  were  three  of  em,  all 
Soldiers^  in  a  Spanijb  Regiment,  but  iaa 

fit 


[  *9«] 

fit  of  ambitious ,  though  frantick,  Zeal  • 
Mnrtough  had  wheedled  them  to  go  along 
with  him  to  Tedro  de  T>ios^  Pean  of  the 
Inquifition,  to  declare  and  acknowledge  be- 
fore him,  that  they  were  converted  and 
brought  over  to  Mother  Church,  and  by 
him  only.  The  poor  Ignorants,  thus  inticd, 
had  left  their  Regiment,  of  which  the  Colo- 
nel, having  notice,  fent  after  then},  and 
they  were  overtaken  on  the  Road,  their 
Miffionair  with  them.  But  tiotwithftanding 
all  his  Oratory,  nay,  even  the  Difcovery  of 
the  whole  Farce,  one  of  tten  was  hang'd 
for  an  Example  to  the  other  two. 

It  was  not  long  after  my  Return  before 
News  arriv'd  of  the  Peace ;  which  though 
they  receiv'd  with  Joy,  they  could  hardly 
entertain  with  Belief.  Upon  which,  the 
new  Corrigidor,  with  whom  I  held  a  better 
Correfpondence  than  I  had  done  with  the 
old  one,  defired  me  to  produce  my  Letters 
from  England^  that  it  was  true.  Never  did 
People  give  greater  D.emonftrations  of  Joy, 
than  they  upon  this  Occaiion.  It  was  the 
common  cry  in  the  Streets,  Taz  con  Angle- 
una,  con  todo  Mundo  Guerra  •>  And  my 
Confirmation  did  them  as  much  Pleafure  as 
it  did  Service  to  me ;  for  if  poflfible,  they 
treated  me  with  more  Civility  than  before. 

But  the  Peace  foon  after  being  pro- 
claimed, I  received  Orders  to  repair  to 
Madrid^  where  the  reft  of  the  Prifoners 

taken 


C  *99  J 

taken  atT)enia  had  been  carried ;  when  I,  by 
reafon  of  my  Wounds,  and  want  of  Health, 
had  been  left  behind.  Others  I  underftood 
lay  ready,  and  fome  were  on  their  March 
to  jBayone  in  France  ;  where  Ships  were  or- 
dered for  their  Tranfportation  into  England. 
So  after  a  Refidence  of  three  Years  and 
three  Months ;  having  taken  leave  of  all 
my  Acquaintance,  I  left  a  Place,  that  was 
almoft  become  natural  to  me,  the  delicious 
Saint e  Clement e  de  la  Mancha. 

Nothing  of  Moment,  or  worth  obferv- 
ing,  met  I  with,  till  I  came  near *  Ocanna; 
and  there  occurred  a  Sight  ridiculous  e- 
nough.  The  Knight  of  the  Town,  I  laft 
came  from,  the  ever  renown'd  Tlon  Quixot^ 
never  made  fuch  a  Figure  as  a  Spaniard,  I 
there  met  on  the  Road.  He  was  mounted 
on  a  Mule  of  the  largeft  fize,  and  yet  no 
way  unfizeable  to  his  Perfon :  He  had  two 
Piftols  in  his  Holfters,  and  one  on  each  fide 
ftuck  in  his  Belt ;  a  fort  of  large  Blunder- 
bufs  in  one  of  his  Hands,  and  the  fellow  to  it 
flung  over  his  Shoulders  hung  at  his  Back. 
All  thefe  were  accompany 'd  with  a  right 
Spanijh  Spado,  and  an  Attendant  Stiletto, 
in  their  cuftorriary  Pofition.  The  Muletier 
that  was  my  Guide,  calling  out  to  him  in 
Spanijh)  told  him  he  was  very  well  arm'd ; 
to  which,  with  a  great  deal  of  Gravity,  the 
Don  returned  Anfwer,  by  Saint  Jago  a 
Man  cannot  be  too  well  m  md  in  fuch  dan- 
gerous Times.  i  I 


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I  took  up  my  Quarters  that  Night  at  0^ 
canm>  a  large,.,  neat,  and  well  built  Town, 
Houfes  of  good  Reception,  and  Entertain- 
ment, are  very  fcarce  all  over  Spain ;  but 
that,  where  I  then  lay,  might  have  pafs'd 
for  good  in  any  other  Country.  Yet  it 
gave  me  a  Notion  quite  different  to  what  I 
found :  for  I  imagined  it  to  proceed  from 
my  near  Approach  to  the  Capital.  But  in- 
flead  of  that,  contrary  to  all  other  Coun- 
tries, the  nearer  I  came  to  Madrid,  the 
Houfes  of  Entertainment  grew  worfe  and 
worfe  ,•  not  in  their  Rates  do  I  mean  (for 
that  with  Reafon  enough  might  have  been 
expe£ted>  but  even  in  their  Provifion,  and 
Places  and  way  of  Reception.  I  could  not 
however  forbear  fmiling  at  the  Reafon 
given  by  my  Muletier,  that  it  proceeded 
from  a  piece  of  Court  Policy,  in  Order  to 
oblige  ail  Travellers  to  haften  to  Madrid. 

Two  fmall  Leagues  from  Ocanna  we  ar- 
rived at  Aranjuez,  a  Seat  of  Pleafure^ 
which  the  Kings  of  Spain  commonly  feled: 
for  their  place  of  Refidence  during  the 
Months  of  Jpril  and  May*  It  is  diftant 
from  Madrid  about  feven  Leagues  $  and  th© 
Country  round  is  the  pleafanteft  in  all  Spainy 
'Valencia  excepted.  The  Houfe  it  felf 
makes  but  a  very  indifferent  Appearance  • 
I  have  feen  many  a. better  in  England^  with 
m  Owner  to  it  of  no  more  than  five  hundred 
bounds  per  Annum ;  yet  the  Gardens  are 

large 


C  3QI  3 

large  and  fine ;  or  as  the  Spaniards  fay,  the 
fined  in  all  Spain^  which  with  them  is  all 
the  World.  They  tell  you  at  the  fame 
Time,  that  thofe  of  Verfailks*  in  their  molt 
beautiful  Parts,  took  their  Model  from  thefe. 
I  never  faw  thofe  at  Verfailks :  But  in  my 
Opinion,  the  Walks  at  Jranjuez,  tho1  noble 
in  their  length,  lofe  much  of  their  Beauty 
by  their  Narrownefs. 

The  Water- works  here  are  a  great  Cu- 
riofity  ;  to  which  the  River  Tagus  running 
along  clofe  by,  does  mightily  contribute. 
That  River  is  let  into  the  Gardens  by  a  vaft 
number  of  little  Canals,  which  with  their 
pleafing  Maanders  divert  the  Eye  with  in- 
expreffibk  Delight.  Thefe  pretty  Wande- 
rers by  Pipes  properly  plac'd  in  them,  af- 
ford Varieties  fcarce  to  be  believ'd  or  ima- 
gin'd  ;  and  which  would  be  grateful  in  any 
Climate;  but  much  more,  where  the  Air, 
as  it  does  here,  wants  in  the  Summer  Months 
perpetual  cooling. 

To  fee  a  fpreading  Tree,  as  growing  in 
its  natural  Soii^  diftinguifh'd  from  its  pine- 
ing  Neighbourhood  by  a  gentle  refreshing 
Shower,  which  appears  foftly  diftilling  from 
every"  Branch  and  Leaf  thereof,  while  Na- 
ture all  around  is  fmiling,  without  one  li- 
quid fign  of  Sorrow,  to  me  appear'd  fur- 
prizingly  pleafing.  And  the  more  when  I 
obferv'd  that  its  Neighbours  receiv'd  not 
any  the  leaft  Benefit  of  that  plentiful  Effu- 

fion ; 


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fion:  And  yet  a  very  few  Trees  diftant, 
you  fhould  find  a  dozen  together  under  the 
fame  healthful  Sudor.  Where  Art  imitates 
Nature  well,  Philofophers  hold  it  a  Perfec- 
tion :  Then  what  muft  fhe  exait  of  us, 
where  we  find  her  tranfcendent  in  the  Per- 
fections of  Nature  ? 

The  watry  Arch  is  nothing  lefs  furpri- 
zing ;  where  Art  contending  with  Nature, 
ads  againft  the  Laws  of  Nature,  and  yet  is 
beautiful.  To  fee  a  Liquid  Stream  vaulting 
it  felf  for  the  fpace  of  threefcore  Yards  in- 
to a  perfed  Semi- Orb,  will  be  granted  by 
the  Curious  to  be  rare  and  flrange :  But  fure 
to  walk  beneath  that  Arch,  and  fee  the 
Waters  flowing  over  your  Head,  without 
your  receiving  the  minuteft  Drop,  is  ftran- 
ger,  if  not  ftrange  enough  to  dagger  all 
Belief. 

The  Story  oi  AUson^  pidur'd  in  Water 
Colours,  if  I  may  fo  exprefs  my  felf,  tho' 
pretty,  ieem'd  to  me,  but  trifling  to  the  o- 
ther.  Thofe  feem'd  to  be  like  Nature  mi- 
raculoufly  difplayed  \  this  only  Fable  in 
Grotefque.  The  Figures  indeed  were  not 
only  fine,  but  extraordinary  ;  yet  their  va- 
rious Shapes  were  not  at  all  fo  entertain- 
ing to  the  Mind,  however  refrefhing  they 
might  be  found  to  the  Body. 

I  took  notice  before  of  the  ftraitnefs  of 
their  Walks:  But  tho'  to  me  it  might  feem 
a  Diminution  of  their  Beauty  :  I  am  apt  to 

believe 


[  3°3  1 

believe  to  the  Spaniard >  for  and  by  whom 
they  were  laid  out,  it  may  feem  otherwife, 
They,  of  both  Sexes,  give  themfelves  fo  in- 
tolerably up  to  Amouring,  that  on  that  Ac- 
count the  Clofenefs  of  the  Walks  may  be 
look'd  upon  as  an  Advantage  rather  than  a 
Defed:.     The  grand  Avenue  to  the  Houfe 
is  much  more  {lately,  and  compos'd  as  they 
are,  of  Rows  of  Trees,  fomewhat  larger  than 
our  largeft  Limes,  whofe  Leaves  are  all  of 
a  perfect  Pea  bloom  Colour,  together  with 
their  Grandeur,  they  flrike  the  Eye  with  a 
pleafing  Beauty.     At  the  Entrance  of  the 
Grand  Court  we  fee  the  Statue  of  'Philip 
the  Second  ;   to  intimate  to  the  Spectators, 
1  fuppofe,  that  he  was  the  Founder. 

Among  other  Parks  about  Jranjuez 
there  is  on®  intirely  preferved  for  Drome- 
daries ;  an  ufeful  Creature  for  Fatigue,  Bur- 
den, and  Difpatch  ;  but  the  neareft  of  kin 
to  Deformity  of  any  1  ever  faw.     There  are 
feveral  other  enclofures  for  feveral  forts  of 
ftrange  and  wild  Beafts,  which  are  fome- 
times  baited  in  a  very  large  Pond,  that  was 
fhown  me  about  half  a  League  from  hence. 
This  is  no  ordinary  Diveriion :  But  when 
the  Court  is  difpofed  that  way,  the  Beaft,  or 
Beafts,  whether  Bear,  Lyon,  or  Tyger,  are 
convey 'd  into  a  Houfe  prepared  for  that  pur- 
pofe ;  whence  he  can  no  other  way  ilfue 
than  by  a  Door  over  the  Water,  through, 
or  over,  which  forcing  or  flinging  'himfelf,. 

he 


[  3°4  3 

he  gradually  finds  hitnfelf  defcehd  into  the 
very  depth  of  the  Pond  by  a  wooden  De- 
clivity. The  Dogs  ftand  ready  on  the 
Banks,  and  fo  foon  as  ever  they  fpyc  their 
Enemy,  rufli  all  at  once  into  the  Water,  and 
engage  him.  A  Diverfion  lefs  to  be  com- 
plain'd  of  than  their  Tmiridores ,-  becaufe 
attended  with  lefs  Cruelty  to  the  Beaft,  as 
well  as  Danger  to  the  Spe&ators. 

When  we  arrived  at  Madrid^  a  Town 
much  fpoken  of  by  Natives,  as  well  as 
Strangers,  tho'  I  had  feen  it  before,  I  could 
hardly  reftrain  my  felf  from  being  furpri- 
zed  to  find  it  only  environd  with  Mud 
Walls.  It  may  very  eafily  be  imagin'd, 
they  were  never  intended  for  Defence, 
and  yet  it  wras  a  long  time  before  I  could 
find  any  other  ufe,  or  rather  any  ufe  at 
all  in  em.  And  yet  I  was  at  laft  con- 
vincd  of  my  Error  by  a  fenfible  Increafe  of 
Expence.  Without  the  Gates3  to  half  a 
League  without  the  Town,  you  have  Wine 
for  two  Pence  the  Quart,-  but  within  the 
Place,  you  drink  it  little  cheaper  than  you 
may  in  London.  The  Mud  Walls  therefore 
well  enough  anfvver  their  Intent  of  forcing 
People  to  refide  there,  under  pretence  of 
Security ;  but  in  reality  to  be  tax'd,  for 
other  Things  are  taxable,  as  well  as  Wine, 
tho'  not  in  like  Proportion. 

All  Embaffadors  have  a  Claim  or  Privi- 
lege, of  bringing  in  what  Wine  they  pleafe 

Tax- 


[  3°5  ] 

Tax-Free  ;  and  the  King,  to  wave  it,  will  at 
any  Time  purchafe  that  Exemption  of  Duty 
at  the  price  of  five  hundred  Piftoles  per 
Annum.  The  Convents  and  Nunneries  are 
allowed  a  like  Licence  of  free  Importation  * 
and  it  is  one  of  the  firft  Advantages  they 
can  boaft  of,-  for,  under  that  Licence  having 
a  liberty  of  fetting  up  a  Tavern  near  theirs 
they  make  a  prodigious  Advantage  of  it. 
The  Wine  drank  and  fold  in  this  Place,  is 
for  the  moft  part  a  fort  of  white  Wine. 

But  if  the  Mud  Walls  gave  tne  at  firft 
but  a  faint  Idea  of  the  Place ;  I  was  pleafing* 
ly  difappointed,  as  foon  as  I  enter' d  the 
Gates.  The  Town  then  ftiow'd  itfelf  well 
built,  and  of  Brick,  and  the  Streets  wide, 
long,  and  fpacious.  Thofe  of  Atocha*,  and 
Alcala,  are  as  fine  as  any  I  ever  faw  $  yet 
is  it  fituated  but  very  indifferently  :  For  tho' 
they  have  what  they  call  a  Pviver,  to 
which  they  give  the  very  fair  Name  of  la 
Manfuera,  and  over  which  they  have  built 
a  curious,  long,  and  large  Stone  Bridge  ;  yet 
is  the  Courfe  of  it,  in  Summer  time  efpeci- 
ally,  moftly  dry.  This  gave  occafion  to 
that  piece  of  Railery  of  a  Foreign  Embaffa- 
dor.  That  the  King  would  have  done  wife- 
ly to  have  bought  a  River ,  before  he 
built  the  'Bridge.  Neverthelefs,  that  little 
Stream  of  a  River  which  they  boaft  of, 
they  improve  as  much  aspofTible^  fince  down 
the  Sides ,  as  far  as  you  can  fee,  there  are 
X  Coops, 


[306] 

Coops,  or  little  Places  hooped  in,  for  Peo- 
ple to  wafh  their  Linen  (for  they  very 
rarely  wafh  in  their  own  Houfes)  nor  is  it 
really  any  unpleafing  Sight,  to  view  the  re- 
gular Rows  of  them  at  that  cleanly  Opera- 
tion. 

The  King  has  here  two  Palaces ;  one 
within  the  Town,  the  other  near  adjoining. 
That  in  the  Town  is  built  of  Stone,  the  o- 
ther  which  is  called  Sueno  Retiro,  is  all  of 
Brick.  From  the  Town  to  this  laft,  in 
Summer  time,  there  is  a  la^ge  covering  of 
Canvas,  propt  up  with  tall  Poles ;  under 
which  People  walk  to  avoid  the  fcorching 
heats  of  the  Sun. 

As  I  was  pafllng  by  the  Chapel  of  the 
Carmelites ,  I  faw  feveral  blind  Men,  fome 
led  ,    fome  groping    the  Way  with  their 
Sticks,  going  into  the  Chapel.     I  had  the 
curiofity  to  know  the  Reafon  :  I  no  fooner 
enter' d  the  Door,  but  was  furprized  to  fee 
fuch  a  number  ofthofe  unfortunate  People, 
all  kneeling  before  the  Altar,  fome  killing 
the  Ground,  others  holding  up  their  Heads, 
crying  out  Mifericordia.    I  was  informed 
'twas  Saint  Lticys  Day,  the  Patronefs  of 
the  Blind  ;  therefore  all  who  were  able, 
came  upon  that  Day  to  pay  their  Devotion : 
So  I  left  them,  and  directed  my  Courfe  to- 
wards the  King's  Palace. 

When  I  came  to  the  outward  Court,  I 
met  with  a  Spanijh  Gentleman  of  my  Ac- 
quaintance, 


[  3°7  1 

quaintahce,  and  we  went  into  the  Piazza* s ; 
whilft  we  were  talking  there,  I  faw  feverat 
Gentlemen    paffing   by  having  Badges  on 
their  Breads,    fome  white,  fome  red,  and 
others  green  :    My  Friend  informed  me  that 
there  were  five  Orders  of   Knighthood  in The  Or^s 
Spain.     That  of  the  Golden  Fleece  was  on-  f0^jj^ 
ly  given  to  great  Princes,  but  the  other  four  Spain. 
to  private  Gentlemen,  mt$  That  of  Saint 
Jago^  Alacantara^  Saint  Salvador  de  Mont- 
reals  and  Monteza. 

He  likewife  told  me,  that  there  were  a- 
bove  ninety  Places  of  Grandees,  but  never 
filled  up  $  who  have  the  Privilege  of  being 
cover'd  in  the  Prefence  of  the  King,  and 
are  diftinguiflied  into  three  Ranks.  The 
firft  is  of  thofe  who  cover  themfelves  before 
they  fpeak  to  the  King.  The  fecond  are 
thofe  who  put  on  their  Hats  after  they  have 
begun  to  fpeak.  The  third  are  thofe  who 
only  put  on  their  Hats,  having  fpoke  to 
him.  The  Ladies  of  the  Grandees  have 
alfo  great  Refped  fhow'd  them.  The 
Queen  rifes  up  when  they  enter  the  Cham- 
ber, and  offers  them  Cufliions. 

No  married  Man  except  the  King  lies  in  ' 
the  Palace,  for  all  the  Women  who  live 
there  are  Widows,  or  Maids  of  Honour  to 
the  Queen.  I  faw  the  Prince  of  Jfturids 
Dinner  carried  through  the  Court  up  to 
him,  being  guarded  by  four  Gentlemen  of 
the  Guards    one  before,   another  behind3 

X  2  and 


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and  one  on  each  Side,  with  their  Carbines 
fhoulder'd;  the  Queen's  came  next,  and 
the  King's  the  laft,  guarded  as  before,  for 
they  always  dine  feparately.  I  obferved 
that  the  Gentlemen  of  the  Guards,  though 
not  on  Duty,  yet  they  are  obliged  to  wear 
their  Carbine  Belts* 

SA  INT  Ifodore^  who  from  a  poor  la- 
bouring Man,  by  his  San&ity  of  Life  ar- 
rived to  the  Title  of  Saint ^  is  the  Pa- 
tron of  Madrid,  and  has  a  Church  dedi- 
cated to  him,  which  is  richly  adorned  with- 
in. The  Sovereign  Court  of  the  Inquifiti- 
on  is  held  at  Madrid^  the  Prefident  where- 
of is  called  the  Inquifitor  General.  They 
judge  without  allowing  any  Appeal  for  four 
Sorts  of  Crimes,  viz.  Herefy,  Polygamy, 
Sodomy  and  Witchcraft,  and  when  any  are 
convi&ed,  'tis  called  the  A<ft  of  Faith. 

MosTPeople  believe  that  the  King's  great- 
eft  Revenue  confifts  in  the  Gold  and  Silver 
brought  from  the  Weft  Indies  (which  is  a 
miftake)  for  moft  Part  of  that  Wealth  be- 
longs to  Merchants  and  others,  that  pay 
the  Workmen  at  the  Golden  Mines  of  To- 
tq/iy  and  the  Silver  Mines  at  Mexico ;  yet 
the  King,  as  I  have  been  informed,  receives 
about  a  Million  and  a  half  of  Gold. 

The  Spaniards  have  a  Saying,  that  the 
fineft  Garden  of  Fruit  in  Spain  is  in  the  mid- 
dle of  Madrid^  which  is  the  Plaza  or 
Market  Place,   and  truly  the  Stalls  there 

are 


[309] 

are  fet  forth  with  fuch  variety  of  delicious 
Fruit,  that  I  muft  confefs  I  never  faw  any 
Place  comparable  to  it ;  and  which  adds  to 
my  Admiration,  there  are  no  Gardens  or 
Orchards  of  Fruit  within  fome  Leagues. 

They  feldom  eat  Hares  in  Spain  but 
whilft  the  Grapes  are  growing,  and  then 
they  are  fo  exceeding  fat,  they  are  knocked 
down  with  Sticks.  Their  Rabits  are  not  fo 
good  as  ours  in  England ;  they  have  great 
plenty  of  Patridges,  which  are  larger  and 
finer  feathered  than  ours.  They  have  but 
little  Beef  in  Spainy  becaufe  there  is  no 
Grafs,  but  they  have  plenty  of  Mutton,  and 
exceeding  good,  becaufe  their  Sheep  feed 
only  upon  wild  Potherbs;  their  Pork  is  de- 
licious, their  Hogs  feeding  only  upon  Cheft- 
nuts  and  Acorns. 

MJCDRIT>  and  Valladolid,  though 
Great,  yet  are  only  accounted  Villages :,  In 
the  latter  Philip  the  Second,  by  the  per- 
fuafion  of  Tarfons  an  Englifh  Jefuit,  erect- 
ed an  Englifh  Seminary  ;  and  Philip  the 
Fourth  built  a  moil  noble  Palace,  with  ex- 
traordinary fine  Gardens.  They  fay  that 
Chrijiopher  Columbus  y  who  firft  difcover'd* 
the  Weft  Indies,  dyed  there,  thp*  I  have 
heard  he  lies  buried,  and  has  a  Monument 
at  'Seoit, 

The  Palace  in  the  Town  flands  upon^x/^'j 
eleven  Arches,  under  every  one  of  which Palace* 
there  are  Shops,    which  degrade  it  to  a 

X  3  meer 


[  3IP  ] 

meer  Exchange.  Neverthelefs,  the  Stairs 
by  which  you  afcend  up  to  the  Guard  Room 
(which  is  very  fpacious  too)  are  ftately, 
large,  and  curious,  So  foon  as  you  have 
pafs'd  the  Guard  Room,  you  enter  into  a 
long  and  noble  Gallery,  the  right  Hand 
whereof  leads  to  the  King's  Apartment,  the 
left  to  the  Queen's.  Entring  into  the  King's 
Apartment  you  foon  arrive  at  a  large  Room, 
where  he  keeps  his  Levee;  on  one  fide 
whereof  (  for  it  takes  up  the  whole  Side) 
is  painted  the  fatal  Battle  of  Almanza.  I 
confefs  the  View  fomewhat  affected  me, 
tho'  fo  long  after  j  and  brought  to  Mind 
anany  old  PaiTages.  However,  the  Re- 
flection concluded  thus  in  favour  of  the  Spa* 
niard,  that  we  ought  to  excufe  their  Va- 
nity in  fo  expofing  under  a  French  General, 
a  Victory,  which  was  the  only  material  one 
the  Spaniards  could  eyer  bqaft  of  over  3n 
Englijb  Army, 

In  this  State  Room,  when  the  King  firfl: 
appears,  every  Perfon  prefent,  receives  hira 
with  a  profound  Homage  :  After  which  turn- 
ing from  the  Company  to  a  large  Velvet 
Chair,  by  which  ftands  the  Father  Confef- 
for,  he  kneels  down,  and  remains  fome 
Time  3t  his  Devotion  j  which  being  over, 
he  rifing  croffes  himfelf,  and  his  Father 
Confeffor  having  with  the  motion  of  his 
Hand  intimated  his  Benediction,  he  then 
gives  Audience  to  all  that  attend  for  that 
j  purpofc. 


purpofe.  He  receives  every  Body  with  a 
feeming  Complaifance  j  and  with  an  Air 
more  refembling  the  French  than  the  Spaiiijli 
Ceremony.  Petitions  to  the  King,  as  with 
us,  are  delivered  into  the  Hands  of  the  Secre- 
tary of  State :  Yet  in  one  Particular  they 
are,  in  my  Opinion,  worthy  the  Imitation 
of  other  Courts ,-  the  Petitioner  is  direitly 
told,  what  Day  he  muft  come  for  an  An- 
fwer  to  the  Office  ,•  at  which  Time  he  is 
lure,  without  any  further  fruitlefs  Atten- 
dance, not  to  fail  of  it.  The  Audience  be- 
ing over,  the  King  returns  through  the 
Gallery  to  his  own  Apartment. 

I  cannot  here  omit  an  accidental  Con- 
verfation,  that  pafs'd  between  General  Ma- 
honi  and  my  felf  in  this  Place.  After  fome 
talk  of  the  Bravery  of  the  Englifh  Nation, 
he  made  mention  of  General  Stanhope^  with 
a  very  peculiar  Bmphajis.  cc  But,  fays  he, 
c'  I  never  was  fo  put  to  the  Nonplus  in  all 
cc  my  Days,  as  that  General  once  put  me 
cc  in.  I  was  on  the  Road  from  Taris  to 
cc  Madrid^  and  having  notice,  that  that 
cc  General  was  going  juft  the  Reverie,  and 
cc  that  in  all  likelyhood  we  fhould  meet  the 
cc  next  Day:  Before  my  fetting  out  in  the 
"  Morning,  I  took  care  to  order  my  gay- 
cc  eft  Regimental  Apparel,  refolving  to 
cc  make  the  beft  Appearance  I  could  to  re- 
cc  ceive  fo  great  a  Man.  I  had  not  travell'd 
"  above  four  Hours  before  I  few  two  Gen- 
X  4  V  tlemen. 


[  3*?  3 

<e  tlemen,  who  appearing  to  be  Engtifhy  it 
4C  induced  me  to  imagine  they  were  Fore- 
Ci  runners,  and  fome  of  his  Retinue.  But 
cc  how  abafh'd  and  confounded  was  I  ? 
ci  when  putting  the  Queftion  to  one  of  'em, 
cc  he  made  anfwer,  £'/r,  I  am  the  Terfon. 
a  Never  did  Moderation  put  Vanity  more 
£C  out  of  Countenance  a  Tho',  to  fay  Truth, 
cc  I  cou'd  not  but  think  his  Drefs  as  much 
cc  too  plain  for  General  Stanhope^  as  I  at 
cc  that  juncture  thought  my  own  too  gay 
u  for  Mahoni.  But,  added  he,  that  great 
cc  Man  had  too  many  inward  great  Endow- 
cc  ments  to  ftand  in  need  of  any  outfide 
**  Decoration. 

Of  all  Diversions  the  King  takes  moft 
delight  in  that  of  Shooting,  which  he  per- 
forms with  great  Exa&nefs  and  Dexterity, 
I  have  fecn  him  divert  himfelf  at  Swallow 
fhooting  (by  all,  I  think  allow'd  to  be  the 
moft  difficult)  and  exceeding  all  I  everfaw. 
The  laft  time  I  had  the  Honour  to  fee  him, 
was  on  his  Return  from  that  Exercife.  He 
had  been  abroad  with  the  Duke  of  Medina 
Sidonia^  and  alighted  out  of  his  Coach  at 
a  back  Door  of  the  Palace,  with  three  or 
four  Birds  in  his  Hand,  which  according  to 
his  ufual  Cuftom,  he  carried  up  to  the 
Queen  with  his  own  Hands. 
Tie  ptAy.  There  are  two  Play-  houfes  in  Madridy 
koi:jes.  at  both  Which  they  a&  every  Day  ;  but  their 
A&QTSj  and  their  Mufick^  are  almoft  too  in- 
different 


[3i3] 

different  to  be  mentioned.  The  Theatre  at  the 
"Bueno  Retiro  is  much  the  beft ;  but  as  much 
inferior  to  ours  at  London,  as  thofe  at  Madrid 
are  to  that.  I  was  at  one  Play,  when  both 
King  and  Queen  were  prefent.  There  was 
a  fplendid  Audience,  and  a  great  Concourfe 
of  Ladies ;  but  the  latter,  as  is  the  Cuftom 
there,  having  Lattices  before  them,  the  Ap- 
pearance loft  moft  of  its  Luftre.  One  very 
remarkable  Thing  happend,  while  I  was 
there;  the  Ave-Bell rung  in  the  Middle  of 
an  Aft,  when  down  on  their  Knees  fell  e- 
very  Body,  even  the  Players  on  the  Stage, 
in  the  Middle  of  their  Harangue.  They  re- 
mained for  fome  Time  at  their  Devotion  ; 
then  up  they  rofe,  and  returned  to  the  Bufi- 
nefs  they  were  before  engag'd  in,  beginning 
where  they  left  off. 

The  Ladies  of  Quality  make  their  Vifits 
in  grand  State  and  Decorum.  The  Lady 
Viiitant  is  carry 'd  in  a  Chair  by  four  Men  $ 
the  two  firft,  in  all  Weathers,  always  bare. 
Two  others  walk  as  a  Guard,  one  on  each 
Side;  another  carrying  a  large  Lanthorn  for 
fear  of  being  benighted ;  then  follows  a 
Coach  drawn  by  fix  Mules,  with  her  Wo- 
men, and  after  that  another  with  her  Gen- 
tlemen ;  feveral  Servants  walking  after, 
more  or  lefs,  according  to  the  Quality  of 
the  Perfon.  They  never  fuffer  their  Servants 
to  overload  a  Coach,  as  is  frequently  feen 
with  us,  neither  do  Coachmen  or  Chairmen 

%  go; 


C3H] 

go  or  drive  as  if  they  carried  Midwives  in 
lieu  of  Ladies.  On  the  contrary,  they  affed: 
a  Motion  fo  flow  and  fo  ftately,  that  you 
would  rather  imagine  the  Ladies  were  every 
one  of  them  near  their  Time,  and  very  ap- 
prehensive of  a  Mifcarriage. 

I  remember  not  to  have  feen  here  any 
Horfes  in  any  Coach,  but  in  the  King's,  or 
an  EmbafTador's  ,-  which  can  only  proceed 
from  Cuftomj  for  certainly  finer  Horfes  are 
not  to  be  found  in  the  World. 

At  the  Time  of  my  being  here.  Cardi- 
nal Giudici  was  at  Madrid ;  he  was  a  tall, 
proper,  comely  Man,  and  one  that  made  the 
beft  Appearance.  Alberoni  was  there  at  the 
fame  Time,  who,  upon  the  Death  of  the 
Duke  of  Vendofme^  had  the  good  Fortune 
to  find  the  Princefs  TJrfini  his  Patronefs.  An 
Inftance  of  whofe  Ingratitude  will  plead 
Pardon  for  this  little  Digreifion.  That 
Princefs  firft  brought  Alberoni  into  Favour 
at  Court.  They  were  both  of  Italy^  and 
that  might  be  one  Reafon  of  that  Lady's  e- 
fpoufing  his  Intereft  :  tho'  fome  there  are, 
that  aifign  it  to  the  Recommendation  of  the 
Duke  of  Vendofme-,  with  whom  Alberoni 
had  the  Honour  to  be  very  intimate,  as  the 
other  was  always  diitinguifh'd  by  that  Prin- 
cefs. Be  which  it  will,  certain  it  is,  fhe 
was  Albercni's  firft,  and  fole  Patronefs  ; 
which  gave  many  People  afterwards  a  very 
fmart  Occafion  of  reflecting  upon  him,  both 

as 


C  3»5  J 

as  to  his  Integrity  and  Gratitude.  For, 
when  Alberoni,  upon  the  Death  of  King 
Philip's  firft  Queen,  had  recommended  this 
prefent  Lady,  who  was  his  Countrywoman, 
(fhe  of  Parma,  and  he  of  Placentia,  both  in 
the  fame  Dukedom)  and  had  forwarded  her 
Match  with  the  King,  with  all  pofiible  Affi- 
duity  $  and  when  that  Princefs,  purfuant  to 
the  Orders  me  had  received  from  the  King, 
pafs'd  over  into  Italy  to  accompany  the 
Queen  Eieft  into  her  own  Dominions  $  Al- 
bercni,  forgetful  of  the  Hand  that  firft  ad- 
vanced him,  fent  a  Letter  to  the  prefent 
Queen,  juft  before  her  Landing,  that  if  fhe 
refolv'd  to  be  Queen  of  Spain,  fhe  muft  ba- 
nifli  the  Princefs  TJrfiw,  her  Companion, 
and  never  let  her  come  to  Court.  Accord- 
ingly that  Lady,  to  evince  the  Extent  of  her 
Power,  and  the  Strength  of  her  Refolution, 
difpatch'd  that  Princefs  away,  on  her  very 
Landing,  and  before  me  had  feen  the  King, 
under  a  Detachment  of  her  own  Guards,  in- 
to France ;  and  all  this  without  either  al- 
lowing her  an  Opportunity  of  juftifying  her 
felf,  or  affigning  the  leaft  Reafon  for  fo  un- 
common an  A&ion.  But  the  fame  J  there- 
in (though  afterwards  created  Cardinal, 
and  for  fome  Time  King  Philip's  Prime  Mi- 
nion) foon  faw  that  Ingratitude  of  his  re- 
warded in  his  own  Difgrace,  at  the  very 
fame  Court. 


[  v*i 

I  remember,  when  at  la  Mamha,  Don 
Felix  TacberOy  in  a  Converfation  there5 
maintain 'd,  that  three  Women,  at  that 
Time,  rul'd  the  World,  viz*  Queen  Anney 
Madam  Mantenon,  and  this  Princefs  Urfini. 

Father  Fahys  Civilities,  when  laft  at 
Madrid^  exacting  of  me  fome  fuitable  Ac- 
knowledgment, I  went  to  pay  him  a  Vifit ; 
as  to  render  him  due  Thanks  for  the  paft,  fo 
to  give  him  a  further  Account  of  his  Coun- 
tryman Tlrcnnan :  but  I  foon  found  he  did 
not  much  incline  to  hear  any  Thing  more  of 
Murtoughy  not  expeiting  to  hear  any  Good 
of  him  ,*  for  which  Reafon,  as  foon  as  I  well 
could,  I  changed  the  Converfation  to  ano- 
ther Topick.  In  which  fome  Word  drop- 
ping of  the  Count  de  Montery3  I  told  him, 
that  I  heard  he  had  taken  Orders,  and  offi- 
ciated at  Mafs:  He  made  anfwer,  it  was  all 
very  true.  And  upon  my  intimating,  that 
I  had  the  Honour  to  ferve  under  him  in  Flan- 
dersj  on  my  firft  entring  into  Service,  and 
when  he  commanded  the  SpaniJJj  Forces  at 
the  famous  Battle  of  Seneff;  and  adding^ 
that  I  could  not  but  be  furprized,  that  he5 
who  was  then  one  of  the  brighteft  Cavalieroes 
of  the  Age,  fhould  now  be  in  Orders^  and 
that  I  fhould  look  upon  it  as  a  mighty  Fa- 
vour barely  to  have,  if  it  might  be,  a  View 
of  him  ;  he  very  obligingly  told  me,  that  he 
was  very  well  acquainted  with  him,  and  that 
if  I  would  come  the  next  Day,  he  would 

not 


C  317  1 

hot  fail  to  accompany  me  to  the  Counts 
Houfe. 

Punctually  at  the  Time  appointed,  I 
waited  on  Father  Fah%  who,  as  he  promi- 
fed,  carry'd  me  to  the  Count's  Houfe :  He 
was  ftepping  into  his  Coach  juft  as  we  got 
there ;  but  feeing  Father  Fahy^  he  advan- 
ced towards  us.  The  Father  deliver'd  my 
Defire  in  as  handfom  a  Manner  as  could  be, 
and  concluding  with  the  Reafon  of  it,  from 
my  having  been  in  that  Service  under  him ; 
he  feem'd  very  well  pleas'd,  but  added,  that 
there  were  not  many  befide  my  felf  living, 
who  had  been  in  that  Service  with  him. 
After  fome  other  Converfation,  he  call'd 
his  Gentleman  to  him,  and  gave  him  parti- 
cular Orders  to  give  us  a  Frefcari^  or,  in 
Englijh)  an  Entertainment  j  fo  taking  leave, 
he  went  into  his  Coach,  and  we  to  our  Fref- 
cari. 

Coming  from  which.  Father  Fahi  made 
me  obferve,  in  the  open  Street,  a  Stone,  on 
which  was  a  vifible  great  Stain  of  fomewhat 
rcddifli  and  like  Blood.  "  This,  faid  he, 
was  occafion'd  by  the  Death  of  a  Coun- 
tryman of  mine,  who  had  the  Misfortune 
to  overfet  a  Child,  coming  out  of  that 
Houfe  (pointing  to  one  oppofite  to  us) 
the  Child  frighted,  though  not  hurt,  as  is 
cc  natural,  made  a  terrible  Out-cry  ;  upon 
cc  which  its  Father  coming  out  in  a  violent 
"  Rage  (notwithftanding  my  Countryman 

5C  beg'd 


C  318] 

"  begM  Pardon,  and  pleaded  Sorrow  as 
cc  being  only  an  Accident)  flabb'd  him  to  the 
cc  Heart,  and  down  he  fell  upon  that  Stone, 
"  which  to  this  Day  retains  the  Mark  of 
<c  innocent  Blood,  fo  raflily  flied  '\  He 
went  on,  and  told  me,  the  Spaniard  imme- 
diately took  San&uary  in  the  Church,  whence 
fome  Time  after  he  made  his  Efcape.  But 
Efcapes  of  that  Nature  are  fo  common  in 
Spain^  that  they  are  not  worth  wondering 
at.  For  even  though  it  were  for  wilful  and 
premeditated  Murder,  if  the  Murderer  have 
taken  Sanctuary,  it  was  never  known,  that 
he  was  delivered  up  to  Juftice,  though  de- 
manded 1  but  in  fome  Difguife  he  makes  his 
Efcape,  or  fome  Way  is  fecured  againft  all 
the  Clamours  of  Power  or  Equity.  I  have 
obferved,  that  fome  of  the  greateft  Quality 
flop  their  Coaches  over  a  (linking  nafty 
Puddle,  which  they  often  find  in  the  Streets, 
and  holding  their  Heads  over  the  Door, 
fnuff  up  the  nafty  Scent  which  afcends,  be- 
lieving that  'tis  extream  healthful ;  when 
I  was  forced  to  hold  my  Nofe,  paffing  by. 
'Tis  not  convenient  to  walk  out  early  in 
the  Morning,  they  having  no  neceffary 
Houfes,  throw  out  their  Naftinefs  in  the 
Middle  of  the  Street. 

After  I  had  taken  Leave  of  Father  Fa* 
by,  and  return'd  my  Thanks  for  all  Civili- 
ties, I  went  to  pay  a  Vifit  to  Mr.  Salter,  who 
was  Secretary  to  General  Stanhope,  when 

the 


[  3»9  ] 

the  Engli/h  Forces  were  made  Prifoners  of 
War  at  <Breuhiga  ;  going  up  Stairs,  I  found 
the  Door  of  his  Lodgings  a- jar ;  and  knock- 
ing, a  Perfon  came  to  the  Door,  who  ap- 
peared under  fome  Surprize  at  Sight  of  ma 
I  did  not  know  him,  but  enquiring  if  Mr. 
Salter  was  within  ;  He  anfwered,  as  I  fan- 
cy'd,  with  fome  Hesitation,    that  he  was, 
but   was  bufy  in  an  inner  Room.     How- 
ever, though  unask'd,  I  went  in,  refolving, 
fince  I  had  found  him  at  home,  to  wait  his 
Leifure.     In  a  little  Time  Mr.  Salter  enter'd 
the  Room  ,•  and  after  cuftomary  Ceremonies, 
asking  my  Patience  a  little  longer,  he  defi- 
red  I  would  fit  down  and  bear  Enfign  Fan- 
Jhaw  Company  (for  fo  he  call'd  him)  ad- 
ding at  going  out,  he  had  a  little  Bufi- 
nefs   that    required  Difpatch $    which  be- 
ing over,  he  would  return,  and  join  Com- 
pany. 

The  Enfign,^  as  he  call'd  him,  appear'd 
to  me  under  a  jDi/habilee  ,•  and  the  firft  Que- 
ftion  he  ask'd  me,  was,  if  I  would  drink  a 
Glafs  otEngliJh  Beer  ?  Mifled  by  his  Ap- 
pearance, though  I  affented,  it  was  with  a 
Defign  to  treat;  which  he  would  by  no 
Means  permit ;  but  calling  to  a  Servant,  or- 
dered fome  in.  We  fat  drinking  that  Liquor, 
which  to  me  was  a  greater  Rarity  than  all  the 
Wine  in  Spain  j  when  in  dropt  an  old  Ac- 
quaintance of  mine,  Mr.  Le  Noy,  Secretary  to 
Colonel  NeviL  He  fat  down  with  us,  and  be- 
fore 


fore  the  Glafs  could  go  twice  round)  told 
Enfign  FanJhaWy  That  his  Colonel  gave  his 
humble  Service  to  him,  and  ordeired  him  to 
let  him  know,  that  he  had  but  threefcore 
Piftoles  by  him,  which  he  had  fent,  and 
which  Were  at  his  Service,  as  what  he  pleas'd 
more  ftiould  be,  as  foon  as  it  came  to  his 
Hands. 

At  this  I  began  to  look  upon  my  Enfign 
as  another  guefs  Perfon  than  I  had  taken 
him  for ;  and  Le  Noy  imagining,  by  our 
fetting  cheek  by  joul  together,  that  I  muft 
be  in  the  Secret,  foon  after  gave  him  the 
Title  of  Captain.  This  foon  convinc'd  me, 
that  there  was  more  in  the  Matter  than  I 
was  yet  Mafter  of ;  for  laying  Things  toge- 
ther, I  could  not  but  argue  within  my  fel£ 
that  as  it  feem'd  at  firft,  a  moft  incredible 
Thing,  that  a  Perfon  of  his  Appearance 
fliould  have  fo  large  Credit,  with  fuch 
a  Complement  at  the  End  of  it,  without 
fome  Difguife,  and  as  from  an  Enfign  he 
was  rifen  to  be  a  Captain,  in  the  taking  of 
one  Bottle  of  EngUJh  Beer  -y  a  little  Patience 
would  let  me  into  a  Farce,  in  which,  at  pre- 
fent,  I  had  not  the  Honour  to  bear  any  Part 
but  that  of  a  Mute. 

At  laft  Le  Noy  took  his  leave,  and  as  foon 
as  he  had  left  us,  and  the  other  Bottle  was 
brought  in,  Enfign  Fanjhaw  began  to  open 
his  Heart,  and  tell  me,  who  he  was.  1  am 
neceflitated,  faid  he,  to  be  under  this  Di£ 

guife, 


[  3"  ] 

guife,  to  conceal  my  felf,  efpecially  in  this 
Place.  "  For  you  muft  knowj  cdhti* 
cc  nued  he,  that  when  our  Forces  were 
iC  Lords  of  this  Town,  as  we  were  for  a 
*c  little  while,  I  fell  under  an  Intrigue 
<c  with  another  Man's  Wife :  Her  Husband 
tc  was  a  Perfon  of  confiderable  Account ;  ne- 
cc  verthelefs  the  Wife  ftiow'd  me  all  the  Fa- 
cc  vours  that  a  Soldier,  under  a  long  and 
*c  hard  Campaigne,  could  be  imagined  to 
cc  ask.  In  fhort,  her  Relations  got  ae- 
<c  quainted  with  our  Amour,  and  knowing 
<f  that  I  was  among  the  Prisoners  taken  at 
cc  "Brenhiga^  are  now  upon  the  Scout  and 
<c  Enquiry,  to  make  a  Difcovery  that  may 
cc  be  of  fatal  Confequence.  This  is  the 
<c  Reafonof  my  Difguife;  this  the  unfortu* 
€c  nate  Occafion  of  my-  taking  upon  me  a 
cc  Name  that  does  not  belong  to  me* 

He  fpoke  all  this  with  fuch  an  Open- 
nefs  of  Heart,  that  in  return  of  fo  much 
Confidence,  I  confefs'd  to  him,  that  I  had 
heard  of  the  Affair,  for  that  it  had  made  no 
little  Noife  all  over  the  Country  ;  that  it 
highly  behoved  him  to  take  great  Care  of 
himfelf,  fince,  as  the  Relations  on  both  Sides 
were  confiderable,  he  muft  confequently 
be  in  great  Danger :  That  in  Cafes  of  that 
Nature,  no  People  in  the  World  carry 
Things  to  greater  Extremities,  than  the 
Spaniards.  He  returnd  me  Thanks  for  my 
good  Advice^  which  I  underftood,  in  a  few 
Y  Davs 


[  322  ] 

Days  after,  he,  with  the  Afliftanee  of  his 
Friends,  had  taken  Care  to  put  in  Practice ; 
for  he  was  convey 'd  away  fecretly,  and  af- 
terwards had  the  Honour  to  be  made  a  Peer 
of  Ireland. 

M*  Paffport  being  at  laft  fign'd  by  the 
Count  de  las  Torres*,  I  prepared  for  a  Jour- 
ney, I  had  long  and  ardently  wifh'd  for, 
and  fet  out  from  Madrid^  in  the  Beginning 
of  Sept  ember )  1712.  in  Order  to  return  to 
my  native  Country. 

Accordingly  I  fet  forward  upon  my 
Journey,  but  having  heard;  both  before  and 
fince  my  being  in  Spain^  very  famous  Things 
fpoken  of  the  Ej 'atrial ;   though  it  was  a 
League  out  of  my  Road,  I  refolved  to  make 
it  a  Vifit.     And  I  muft  confefs,  when  I  came 
there,  I  was  fo  far  from  condemning  my 
Curiofity,  that  I  chofe  to  congratulate  my 
good  Fortune,  that  had,  at  half  a  Day's  Ex- 
pence,  feafted  my  Eyes  with  Extraordina- 
ries,  which  would  have  juftify'd  a  Twelve- 
months Journey  on  pnrpofe. 
De/cription     The  Stru&ure  is  intirely  magnificent,  be- 
°{  iai  Ef  Yonc^  anX  Thing  I  ever  faw,  or  any  Thing 
my  Imagination  could  frame,     It  is  compo- 
fed  of  eleven  feveral  Quadrangles,  with  no- 
ble Cloifters  round  every  one  of  them.   The 
Front  to  the  Weft  is  adorn'd  with  three 
{lately  Gates ;  every  one  of  a  different  Mo- 
del, yet  every  one  the  Model  of  niceft  Ar- 
chitecture,    The  Middlemoft  of  the  three 

leads 


C  323  ] 

leads  into  a  fine  Chapel  of  the  Hieronomites, 
as  they  call  them  ;  in  which  are  entertain'd 
one  hundred  and  fifty  Monks.  At  every  of 
the  four  Corners  of  this  auguft  Fabrick, 
there  is  a  Turret  of  excellent  Workmanfhip, 
Which  yields  to  the  Whole  an  extraordina- 
ry Air  of  Grandure.  The  King's  Palace  is 
on  the  North,  neareft  that  Mountain,  whence 
the  Stone  it  is  built  of  was  hew'n  ;  and  all 
the  South  Part  is  fet  off  with  many  Galle- 
ries, both  beautiful  and  fumptuous. 

This  prodigious  Pile,  which,  as  I  have 
faid,  exceeds  all  that  I  ever  faw  ;  and  which 
would  ask,  of  it  felf,  a  Volume  to  particu- 
larize, was  built  by  Philip  the  Second.  He 
lay'd  the  firft  Stone,  yet  liv'd  to  fee  it  finifli- 
ed ;  and  lies  buryed  in  the  Panthaon,  a  Part 
of  it,  fet  apart  for  the  Burial-place  of  fuc- 
ceeding  Princes,  as  well  as  himfelf.  It  was 
dedicated  to  Saint  Laurence^  in  the  very 
Foundation ;  and  therefore  built  in  the  Shape 
of  a  Gridiron,  thelnftrumentof  that  Martyr's 
Execution  ;  and  in  Memory  of  a  great  Victo- 
ry obtain'd  on  that  Saint's  Day.  The  Stone 
of  which  it  is  built,  contrary  to  the  common 
Courfe,  grows  whiter  by  Age,-  and  the 
Quarry,  whence  it  was  dug,  lies  near  e- 
nought  if  it  had  Senfe  or  Ambition,  to  grow 
enamour'd  of  its  own  wonderful  Production. 
Some  there  are,  who  ftick  not  to  affign  this 
Convenience,  as  the  main  Caufe  of  its  Situa- 
tion ]  and  for  my  Part,  I  muft  agree,  that  I 
Y  2  have 


C  3H  ] 

have  feen  many  other  Parts  of  Spainy  where 
that  glorious  Building  would  have  flione 
with  yet  far  greater  Splendour. 

There  was  no  Town  of  any  Confe- 
quence  prefented  it  felf  in  my  Way  to  B«r- 
gos.  Here  I  took  up  my  Quarters  that 
Night ;  where  I  met  with  an  Irijh  Prieft, 
whofe  Name  was  White.  As  is  natural  on 
fuch  Rencounters,  having  anfwered  his  En- 
quiry, whither  I  was  going  $  he  very  kind- 
ly told  me,  he  fhould  be  very  glad  of  my 
Company  as  far  as  Viffioria^  which  lay  in 
my  Road  >•  and  I  with  equal  Franknefs  em- 
braced the  Offer. 

Next  Morning,  when  we  had  mounted 
our  Mules,  and  were  got  a  little  Diftance 
from  'Burgos  ,•  he  began  to  relate  to  me  a 
great  many  impious  Pranks  of  an  Englijh 
Officer,  who  had  been  a  Prifoner  there  a  lit- 
tle before  I  came  ,•  concluding  all,  with  fome 
Vehemence,  that  he  had  given  greater  Oc- 
cafion  of  Scandal  and  Infamy  to  his  native 
Country,  than  would  eafily  be  wiped  off, 
or  in  a  little  Time.  The  Truth  of  it  is,  ma- 
ny Particulars,  which  he  related  to  me, 
were  too  monftroufly  vile  to  admit  of  any 
Repetition  here ;  and  highly  meriting  that 
unfortunate  End,  which  that  Officer  met 
with  fome  Time  after.  Neverthelefs  the  juft 
Reflections  made  by  that  Father,  plainly  ma- 
nifefted  to  me  the  Folly  of  thofe  Gentlemen, 
who,   by  fuch  Inadvertencies,  to  fay  no 

worfe, 


[  325  1 

worfe,  caufe  the  Honour  of  the  Land  of  their 
Nativity  to  be  called  in  queftion.  For  tho', 
no  doubt,  it  is  a  very  falfe  Conclufion, 
from  a  Angular,  to  conceive  a  general  Cha- 
racter $  yet  in  a  ftrange  Country,  nothing  is 
more  common.  A  Man  therefore,  of  com- 
mon Senfe,  would  carefully  avoid  all  Occa^ 
fions  of  Cenfure,  if  not  in  refpeft  to  himfelf, 
yet  out  of  a  human  Regard  to  fuch  of  his 
Countrymen  as  may  have  the  Fortune  to 
come  after  him ;  and,  it's  more  than  proba- 
ble, may  defire  to  hear  a  better  and  jufter 
Chara&er  of  their  Country,  and  Country- 
men, than  he  perhaps  might  incline  to  leave 
behind  him. 

As  we  travelled  along,  Father  White  told 
me,  that  near  the  Place  of  our  Quartering 
that  Night,  there  was  a  Convent  of  the 
Carthafian  Order,  which  would  be  well 
worth  my  feeing.  I  was  doubly  glad  to 
hear  it,  as  it  was  an  Order  moft  a  Stranger 
to  me  ;  and  as  I  had  often  heard  from  many 
others,  moft  unaccountable  Relations  of 
the  Severity  of  their  Way  of  Life,  and 
the  very  odd  Original  of  their  Inftituti* 
on. 

The  next  Morning  therefore,  being  Stok* 
day,  we  took  a  Walk  to  the  Convent.  It 
was  fituated  at  the  Foot  of  a  great  Hill,  ha- 
ving a  pretty  little  River  running  before  it 
The  Hill  was  naturally  covered  with  Ever- 
greens of  various  Sorts ;  but  the  very  Sum«r 

Y  %  wk 


mit  of  the  Rock  was  fo  impending,  that  one 
would  at  firft  Sight  be  led  to  apprehend  the 
Deftruclion  of  the  Convent,  from  the  Fall  of 
it.  Notwithftanding  all  which,  they  have 
very  curious  and  well  ordered  Gardens  ; 
which  led  me  to  obferve,  that,  what  ever 
Men  may  pretend,  Pleafure  was  not  incom- 
patible with  the  mod:  auftere  Life.  And  in- 
deed, if  I  may  guefs  of  others  by  this,  no  Or- 
der in  that  Church  can  boaft  of  finer  Con- 
vents. Their  Chapel  was  compleatly  neat^ 
the  Altar  of  it  fet  out  with  the  utmoft  Mag- 
nificence, both  as  to  fine  Paintings,  and  c- 
ther  rich  Adornments.  The  Building  was 
anfwerable  to  the  reft  ;  and,  in  ftiort,  no- 
thing feem'd  omitted,  that  might  render  it 
beautiful  or  pleafant. 

When  we  had  taken  a  full  Survey  of  all $ 
we,  not  without  fome  Regret,  returned  to 
our  very  indifferent  Inn  i  Where  the  better 
to  pafs  away  the  Time,  Father  White  gave 
me  an  ample  Detail  of  the  Original  of  that 
Order.  1  had  before-hand  heard  fomewhat 
of  it ;  neverthelefs,  I  did  not  care  to  inter- 
rupt him,  becaufe  I  had  a  Mind  to  hear  how 
his  Account  would  agree  with  what  I  had  al- 
ready heard. 

"  Bruno,  faid  the  Father,  the  Author  or 
&  Founder  of  this  Order,  was  not  originally 
&  of  this,  but  of  another.  He  had  a  holy 
cc  Brother  of  the  fame  Order,  that  was  his 
"  CeL-nnte,  or  Chamber-fellow,  who  was 


L  3a7  ] 

cc  reputed  by  all  that  ever  faw  or  knew  him, 
cc  for  a  Perfon  of  exalted  Piety,  and  of  a 
cc  mod  exaft  holy  Life.  This  Man,  %ru- 
cc  no  had  intimately  known  for  many  Years ; 
cc  and  agreed  in  his  Character,  that  general 
cc  Confent  did  him  no  more  than  Juftice, 
c  having  never  obferved  any  Thing  in  any 
cc  of  his  A&ions,  that,  in  his  Opinion,  could 
cc  be  offenfive  to  God  or  Man.  He  was 
cc  perpetually  at  his  Devotions,-  and  diftin- 
cc  guilhably  remarkable,  for  never  permit- 
cc  ing  any  Thing  but  pious  Ejaculations  to 
cc  proceed  out  of  his  Mouth.  In  fhort,  he 
"  was  reputed  a  Saint  upon  Earth. 

cc  This  Man  at  laft  dies,  and,  according 
"  to  Cuftom,  is  removed  into  the  Chapel 
cc  of  the  Convent,  and  there  placd  with  a 
"  Crofs  fixd in his  Hands :  Soon  after  which, 
cc  faying  the  proper  Malfes  for  his  Soul,  in 
cc  the  Middle  of  their  Devotion,  the  dead 
?  Man  lifts  up  his  Head,  and  with  an  audi- 
cc  ble  Voice,  cry'dout,  VbcaUisfum.  The 
cc  pious  Brethren,  as  any  one  will  eafi- 
cc  ly  imagine,  were  moft  prodigioufly  fur- 
*  prized  at  fuch  an  Accident,  and  there- 
fore they  earneftly  redoubled  their  Pray- 
ers ;  when  lifting  up  his  Head  a  fecond 
Time,  the  dead  Man  cried  aloud,  Judi- 
"  caUisfum.  Knowing  his  former  Piety,  the 
<c  pious  Fraternity  could  not  then  entertain 
the  lead  doubt  of  his  Felicity  ;  when,  to 
"  their  greatConfternation  and  Confufion, 
Y  A  ?  he 


ct 


£Q 


«* 


u  he  lifted  up  his  Head  a  third  Time,  cry-* 
*c  ing  out  in  a  terrible  Tone,  T>amnatm 
cc  /^7# ;  upon  which  they  incontinently  re- 
cc  moved  the  Corps  out  of  the  Chapel,  and 
?c  threw  it  upon  the  Dunghill, 

Ci  Good  2}runo9  pondering  upon  thefe 
^c  Paflages,  could  not  fail  of  drawing  this 
"  Conclufion  ,•  That  if  a  Perfon  to  all  Ap- 
"  pearance  fo  holy  and  devout,  fhould  mifs 
•c  of  Salvation,  it  behov'd  a  wife  Man  to 
*'  contrive  fome  Way  more  certain  to  make 
"  his  Calling  and  Ele&ion  fure.  To  that 
*c  Purpofe  he  inftituted  this  ftrid:  and  fevere 
cc  Order,  with  an  Injunction  to  them5  facred 
fc  as  any  Part,  that  every  Profeffor  fhould 
*c  always  wear  Hair  Cloth  next  his  Skin  •  ne- 
"  ver  eat  any  Flelh ;  nor  fpeak  to  one  ano- 
fc  ther,  only  as  palling  by,  to  fay,  Memento 
V  moru 

This  Account  I  found  to  agree  pret- 
ty well  with  what  I  had  before  heard ;  but 
at  the  fame  Time,  I  found  the  Redouble 
of  it  made  but  juft  the  fame  Impreffion,  it 
had  at  firft  made  upon  my  Heart.  How- 
ever having  made  it  my  Obfervation,  that  a 
Spirit  the  ieaft  contradi&ory,  beft  carries  a 
Man  through  Spain  -y  I  kept  Father  White 
Company,  and  in  Humour,  'till  we  arrived 
st  Victoria*  Where  he  added  one  Things 
by  Way  of  Appendix,  in  Relation  to  the 
Cartmifia^s^  That  every  Perfon  of  the  So- 
ciety5  is  obliged  every  Day  to  gojnto  their 

Place. 


[  3*9  ] 

Place  of  Burial,  and  take  up  as  much  Earth; 
as  he  can  hold  at  a  Grafp  with  one  Hand, 
in  order  to  prepare  his  Grave. 

Next  Day  we  fet  out  for  ViUoria.  It 
is  a  fweet,  delicious,  and  pleafant  Town.  It 
received  that  Name  in  Memory  of  a  confi- 
derable  Vi&ory  there  obtained  over  the 
Moors.  Leaving  this  Place,  I  parted  with 
Father  White  $  he  going  where  his  Affairs 
led  him  $  and  I  to  make  the  beft  of  my 
Way  to  TSilboa. 

Entring  into  Bifcay,  foon  after  I  left  VI- 
Ttoria,  I  was  at  a  Lofs  almoft  to  imagine, 
what  Country  I  was  got  into.  By  my  long 
Stay  in  Spain,  I  thought  my  felf  a  tolera- 
ble Mafter  of  the  Tongue ;  yet  here  I  found 
my  felf  at  the  utmoft  Lofs  to  underftand 
Landlord,  Landlady,  or  any  of  the  Family. 
I  was  told  by  my  Muletier,  that  they  pretend 
their  Language,  as  they  call  it,  has  continu- 
ed uncorrupted  from  the  very  Confufion  of 
Babel;  though  if  I  might  freely  give  my  O- 
pinion  in  the  Matter,  I  ftiould  rather  take  it 
to  be  the  very  Corruption  of  all  that  Confu- 
fion. Another  Rhodomontado  they  have, 
(for  in  this  they  are  perfed:  Spaniards)  that 
neither  Romans,  Carthaginians,  Vandals* 
Goths,  or  Moors,  ever  totally  fubdued  them. 
And  yet  any  Man  that  has  ever  feen  their 
Country,  might  cut  this  Knot  without  a 
Hatchet,  by  faying  truly,  that  neither  Ro- 
many Carthaginian?  nor  any  vi&orious  Peo- 


[  33°] 

pie,  thought  it  worth  while  to  make  a  Con- 
queft  of  a  Country,  fo  mountainous  and  fo 
barren. 
Biiboa<fe-  However,  "Bilboa  muft  be  allowed,  tho' 
fm  «fc  not  very  iargej  t0  be  a  pretty,  clean  and  neat 
Town.  Here,  as  in  Amfterdam^  they  al- 
low neither  Cart,  nor  Coach,  to  enter ;  but 
every  Thing  of  Merchandize  is  drawn,  and 
carried  upon  Sledges :  And  yet  it  is  a  Place 
of  no  fmall  Account,  as  to  Trade  •  and  e- 
fpecially  for  Iron  and  Wooll.  Here  I  hop'd 
to  have  met  with  an  opportunity  of  Em- 
barking for  England  $  but  to  my  Sorrow  I 
found  my  felf  difappointed,  and  under  that 
Difappointment,  obliged  to  make  the  beft  of 
my  Way  to  Bayonne. 

Setting  out  for  which  Place,  the  firft 
Town  of  Note  that  I  came  to,  was  Saint 
Sebajiian.  A  very  clean  Town,  and  neatly 
pav'd^  which  is  no  little  Rarity  in  Spain. 
It  has  a  very  good  Wall  about  it,  and  a 
pretty  Citadel.  At  this  Place  I  met  with 
two  Englifo  Officers,  who  were  under  the 
fame  ftate  with  my  felf  ,•  one  of  them  being 
a  Prifoner  of  War  with  me  at  Taenia.  They 
were  going  to  Jiayonne  to  embark  for 
England  as  well  as  my  felf;  fo  we  agreed 
to  fet  out  together  for  Tort  Tajjage.  The 
Pvoad  fromSt.SebaJiian  is  all  over  a  well  pav'd 
Stone  Caufeway  ;  almoft  at  the  end  where- 
of there  accofted  us  a  great  number  of  young 
Lafles.     They  were  all  prettily  drefs'd .,  their 

long 


C  331  J 

long  Hair  flowing  in  a  decent  manner  over 
their  Shoulders,  and  here  and  there  decora- 
ted with  Ribbons  of  various  Colours,  which 
wantonly  play'd  on  their  Backs  with  the 
Wind.  The  Sight  furpriz'd  my  Fellow  Tra- 
vellers no  lefs  than  me  ;  and  the  more,  as 
they  advanced  dire&ly  up  to  us,  and  feiz'd 
our  Hands.  But  a  little  time  undeceivM  us, 
and  we  found  what  they  came  for,-  and 
that  their  Conteft,  tho'  not  fo  robuft  as  our 
Oars  on  the  Thames,  was  much  of  the  fame 
Nature  ,•  each  contending  who  fhould  have 
us  for  their  Fare.  For  'tis  here  a  Cuftom 
of  Time  out  of  mind,  that  none  but  young 
Women  fhould  have  the  management  and 
profit  of  that  Ferry.  And  tho'  the  Ferry  is 
over  an  Arm  of  the  Sea,  very  broad,  and 
fometimcs  very  rough,  thofe  fair  Ferriers 
manage  themfelves  with  that  Dexterity, 
that  the  PafTage  is'  very  little  dangerous, 
and  in  calm  Weather,  very  pleafant.  In 
fliort,  we  made  choice  of  thofe  that  beft 
pleafed  us ;  who  in  a  grateful  Return, 
led  us  down  to  their  Boat  under  a  fort 
of  Mufick,  which  they,  walking  along, 
made  with  xtheir  Oars,  and  which  we  all 
thought  far  from  being  difagreeable.  Thus 
were  we  tranfported  over  to  Port  TaJJage ; 
not  undefervedly  accounted  the  beft  Har- 
bour in  all  the  Bay  of  "Bifcay. 

We  ftgy'd  not  long  here  after  Landing, 
refolving,  if  poffible,  to  reach  Fonterabia 

before 


[  w  ] 

before  Night ;  but  all  the  Expedition  we 
could  ufe,  little  avail'd;  for  before  we 
could  reach  thither  the  Gates  were  fliut,and 
good  Nature  and  Humanity  were  fo  lockM 
up  with  them,  that  all  the  Rhetorick  we 
were  Mafters  of  could  not  prevail  upon  the 
Governor  to  order  their  being  opened ;  for 
which  Reafon  we  were  obliged  to  take  up 
our  Quarters  at  the  Ferry  Houfe. 

When  we  got  up  the  next  Morning,  we 
found  the  Waters  fo  broad,  as  well  as  rough, 
that  we  began  to  enquire  after  another  Paf- 
fage ;  and  were  anfwer'd,  that  at  the  Ifle  of 
Conference,  but  a  fhort  League  upwards, 
the  PafTage  was  much  fliorter,  and  expofed 
to  lefs  Danger.  Such  good  Reafonsfoon  de- 
termined us :  So,  fetting  out  we  got  there 
in  a  very  little  Time  j  and  very  foon  after 
were  landed  in  France.  Here  we  found  a 
Houfe  of  very  good  Entertainment,  a  Thing 
we  had  long  wanted,  and  much  lamented 
the  want  of. 

We  were  hardly  well  feated  in  the  Houfe 
before  we  were  made  fenfible,  that  it  was 
the  Cuftom,  which  had  made  it  the  bufinefs 
of  our  Hoft,to  entertain  all  his  Guefts  at  firft 
coming  in,  with  a  prolix  Account  of  that 
remarkable  Interview  between  the  two 
Kings  of  France  and  Spain.  I  fpeak  fafely 
now,  as  being  got  on  French  Ground:  For 
the  Spaniard  in  his  own  Country  would 
fcaye  made  me  to  know3  that  putting  Spam 
t  aftes 


C  333  1 

after  France  had  there  been  look'd  upon  as 
a  meer  Solecifm  in  Speech.  However,  ha- 
ving refrefli'd  our  felves,  to  fhow  our  defe- 
rence to  our  Hoft's  Relation,  we  agreed  to 
pay  our  Refpe&s  to  that  famous  little  Ifle 
he  mentiond  $  which  indeed,  was  the 
whole  burden  of  the  Defign  of  our  crafty 
Landlord's  Relation. 

When  we  came  there,  we  found  it  a 
little  oval  Ifland,  over-run  with  Weeds, 
and  furrounded  with  Reeds  and  Ruihes. 
cc  Here,  faid  our  Landlord  (  for  he  went 
<c  with  us)  upon  this  little  Spot,  were  at 
iC  that  jun&ure  feen  the  two  greateft  Mo- 
cc  narchs  in  the  Univerfe.  A  noble  Pavi- 
"  lion  was  ere&ed  in  the  very  middle  of  it, 
cc  and  in  the  middle  of  that  was  placed  a 
cc  very  large  oval  Table ;  at  which  was  the 
cc  Conference,  from  which  the  Place  re- 
€C  ceiv'd  its  Title.  There  were  two  Bridges 
"  rais'd  $  one  on  the  Spanijh  fide,  the  Paf- 
cc  fage  to  which  was  a  little  upon  a  Defcent 
*r  by  reafon  of  the  Hills  adjacent  -3  and  the 
cc  other  upon  the  French  fide,  which  as  you 
cc  fee,  was  all  upon  a  Level.  The  Mufick 
cc  playing,  and  Trumpets  founding,  the  two 
cc  Kings,  upon  a  Signal  agreed  upon,  fet 
cc  forward  at  the  fame  time  ,•  the  Spanijlo 
cc  Monarch  handing  the  Infanta  his  Daugh- 
ct  ter  to  the  Place  of  Interview.  As  foon 
c<  as  they  were  enter'd  the  Pavilion,  on 
?c  each  Side,  all  the  Artillery  fired,  and 

«  both 


C  334-  1 

cc  both  Armies  after  that  made  their  feve- 
"  ral  Vollies.  Then  the  King  of  Spain 
iC  advancing  on  his  fide  the  Table  with 
cc  the  Infant  a>  the  King  of  France  advan- 
cc  ced  at  the  fame  Moment  on  the  other  ; 
cc  till  meeting,  he  received  the  Infanta  at 
<c  the  Hands  of  her  Father,  as  his  Queen ; 
cc  upon  which,  both  the  Artillery  and  fmall 
cc  Arms  fir'd  as  before.  After  this,  was  a 
<c  moft  fplendid  and  fumptuous  Entertain- 
cc  ment ;  which  being  over,  both  Kings  re- 
cC  tir'd  into  their  feveral  Dominions ;  the 
<Q  King  of 'France  conducting  his  new  Queen 
cc  to  Saint  Jean  de  Luz>  where  the  Mar- 
<c  riage  was  confummated  ,•  and  the  King 
a  of  Spain  returning  to  Tort  Taffage. 

After  a  Relation  fo  very  inconfiftent 
with  the  prefent  State  of  the  Place  $  we 
took  Horfe  (for  Mule-mounting  was  now 
out  of  Fafhion)  and  rode  to  Saint  Jean  de 
LuZy  where  we  found  as  great  a  difference 
in  our  Eating  and  Drinking,  as  we  had  be- 
fore done  in  our  Riding,  Here  they  might 
be  properly  call'd  Houfes  of  Entertainment  j 
tho'  generally  fpeaking,  till  we  came  to 
this  Place,  we  met  with  very  mean  Fare,  and 
were  poorly  accommodated  in  the  Houfes 
where  we  lodged, 

A  Perfon  that  travels  this  way,  would 
be  efteem'd  a  Man  of  a  narrow  Curiofity, 
who  fhould  not  defire  to  fee  the  Chamber 
where  Louis  le  grand  took  his  firft  Nights 

Lodg- 


C  335  1 

Lodging  with  his  Queen.  Accordingly, 
when  it  was  put  into  my  Head,  out  of  an 
Ambition  to  evince  my  felf  a  Perfon  of 
Tafte,  I  asked  the  Queftion,  and  the  Fa- 
vour was  granted  me,  with  a  great  deal  of 
French  Civility.  Not  that  I  found  any 
Thing  here,  more  than  in  the  Ifle  of  Confe- 
rence, but  what  Tradition  only  had  render- 
ed remarkable. 

Saint  Jean  de  Laz  is  efteem'd  one  of  the  s,  ?ea»de 
greateft  Village  Towns  in  all  France.     \tLux~ 
was  in  the  great  Church  of  this  Place,  that 
Lewis  XIV.  according  to  Marriage  Articles, 
took  before  the  high  Altar  the  Oath  of  Re- 
nunciation to  the   Crown  of   Spain,    by 
which  all  the  IfTue  of  that  Marriage  were 
debarred  Inheritance,  if  Oaths  had  been  o- 
bligatory  with  Princes.     The  Natives  here 
are  reckon'd  expert  Seamen  ,•     efpecially 
in   Whale  fifhing.     Here  is  a  fine  Bridge 
of  Wood ;  in  the  middle  of  which  is  a  De- 
fcent,  by  Steps,  into  a  pretty  little  Ifland  > 
where  is  a  Chapel,  and  a  Palace  belonging 
to  the  Bifhop  of  Bayonne.    Here  the  Queen 
Dowager  of  Spain  often   walks  to  divert 
herfelf,-    and  on  this  Bridge,   and   in  the 
Walks  on  the  Ifland,     I  had  the  Honour  to 
fee  that  Princefs  more  than  once. 

This  Villa  not  being  above  four  Leagues 
from  Bayonne,  we  got  there  by  Dinner  time, 
where  at  an  Ordinary  of  twenty  Sous,  we 
eat  and  drank  in  Plenty,  and  with  a  guflo, 

much 


I  tt6  3 

much  better  than  in  any  part  of  Spain; 
where  for  eating  much  worfe,  we  paid  very 
much  more, 
fegm*.  SJTONNE  is  a  Town  ftrong  by  Na- 
ture $  yet  the  Fortifications  have  been  very 
much  neglected,  fince  the  building  of  the 
Citadel,  on  the  other  Side  the  River ; 
which  not  only  commands  the  Town,  but 
the  Harbour  too.  It  is  a  noble  Fabrick- 
fair  and  ftrong,  and  rais'd  on  the  fide  of  a 
Hill,  wanting  nothing  that  Art  could  fur- 
nifh,  to  render  it  impregnable.  The  Mar* 
flial  Bouflers  had  the  Care  of  it  in  its  erec- 
tion  $  and  there  is  a  fine  Walk  near  it,  from 
which  he  us*d  to  furvey  the  Workmen, 
which  ftill  carries  his  Name.-  There  are 
two  noble  Bridges  here,  tho'  both  of  Wood, 
one  over  that  River  which  runs  on  one  fide 
the  Town  -y  the  other  over  that,  which  di- 
vides it  in  the  middle,  the  Tide  runs  thro* 
both  with  vaft  Rapidity ;  notwithftanding 
which,  Ships  of  Burden  come  up,  and  pay- 
ing for  it,  are  often  faftend  to  the  Bridge, 
while  loading  or  unloading.  While  I  was 
here,  there  came  in  four  or  five  Englijh 
Ships  laden  with  Corn ;  the  firft,  as  they 
told  me,  that  had  come  in  to  unlade  there, 
iince  the  beginning  of  the  War. 
pent/  On  that  Side  of  the  River  where  the 
WlU  new  Citadel  is  built,  at  a  very  little  diftance 
lies  Tout  d"  Efprit^  a  Place  moftly  inhabit- 
ed by  JeWSy   who  drive  a  greaj  Trade 

there, 


[  337  ] 

there,  and  are  efteemed  very  rich,  tho'  as 
in  all  other  Countries  moftly  very  rogueifh. 
Here  the  Queen  Dowager  of  Spain  has  kept 
her   Court  ever  fince  the  Jealoufy  of  the 
prefent  King  reclus'd  her  from  Madrid.    As 
Aunt  to  his  Competitor  Charles  (now  Em- 
peror)   he    apprehended   her   Intrigueing  • 
for  which  Reafon  giving  her  an  Option  of 
Retreat,  that  Princefs  made  choice  of  this 
City,  much  to  the  Advantage  of  the  Place, 
and  in  all  Appearance  much  to  her  own  Sa- 
tisfaction.    She  is  a  Lady  not  of  the  iefTer 
Size ,-  and  lives  here  in  fuitable  Splendour, 
and  not  without  the  Refpe<ft  due  to  a  Per- 
fon  of  her  high  Quality :  Every  time  flie 
goes  to  take  the  Air,  the  Cannon  of  the 
Citadel  faluting  her,  as  flie  pafles  over  the 
Bridge ;    and   to  fay  Truth,  the   Country 
round  is  extremely  pleafant,  and  abounds  in 
plenty  of  all  Provisions;  efpecially  in  wild 
Fowl.     jBayonne  Hams  are,  to  a  Proverb, 
celebrated  all  over  France. 

We  waited  here  near  five  Months  before 
the  expected  Tranfports  arrived  from  Eng- 
land, without  any  other  Amufements,  than 
fuch  as  are  common  to  People  under  Suf- 
pence.  Short  Tours  will  not  admit  of  great 
Varieties ;  and  much  Acquaintance  could 
not  be  any  way  fuitable  to  People,  that  had 
long  been  in  a  ftrange  Country,  and  ear- 
neftly  dellred  to  return  to  our  own.  Yet  one 

Z  Acci- 


[  33*  ] 

Accident  befell  me  here,  that  was  nearer 
cofting  me  my  Life,  than  all  I  had  before 
encounter'd,  either  in  Battle  or  Siege. 

Going  to  my  Lodgings  one  Evening,  I 
unfortunately  met   with  an   Officer,    who 
would  needs  have  me  along  with  him,  a-* 
board  one  of  the  Englijh  Ships,   to  drink  a 
Bottle  of  Englifh  Beer.     He  had  been  often 
invited,  he  faid ,  and  I  am  afraid  our  Coun- 
tryman,   continued   he,    will  hold  himfelf 
flighted,  if  I  delay  it  longer.     Englijh  Beer 
was  a  great  rarity,  and  the  Veffel  lay  not 
at  any  great  diftance  from  my  Lodgings ; 
fo  without  any  furtherPerfuafion  I  contented. 
When  we  came  upon  the  Bridge,  to  which 
the  Ship  we  were  to  go  aboard  was  faftned, 
we  found,  as  was  cuftomary,  as  well  as  ne- 
ceffary,  a  Plank  laid  over  from  the  Ship, 
and  a  Rope  to  hold   by,   for  fafe  PafTage. 
The  Night  was  very  dark  j  and  I  had  cau- 
tioufly  enough  taken  care  to  provide  a  Man 
with  a   Lanthorn    to    prevent  Cafualties^ 
The  Man  with  the  Light  went  firft,  and 
out  of  his    abundant   Complaifance ,    my 
Friend,  the  Officer,  would  have  me  follow 
the  Light :  But  I  was  no  fooner  ftept  upon 
the  Plank  after  my  Guide,  but  Rope  and 
Plank  gave  way,  and  Guide  and  I  tumbled 
both  together  into  the  Water. 

The  Tide  was  then  running  in  pretty 
ftrong:    However,   my    Feet  in  the  Fail 

touching 


[  359  ] 

touching  Ground,  gave  me  an  opportunity 
to  recover  my  felf  a  little ;  at  which  Time 
I  catchM  faft  hold  of  a  Buoy,  which  was 
plac'd  over  an  Anchor  on  one  of  the  Ships 
there  riding  :  I  held  faft,  till  the  Tide  rifing 
ftronger  and  ftronger  threw  me  off  my  Feet; 
which  gave  an  Opportunity  to  the  poor  Fel- 
low, our  Lan thorn- bearer,  to  lay  hold  of 
one  of  my  Legs,  by  which  he  held  as  faft 
as  I  by  the  Buoy.     We  had  lain  thus  lov- 
ingly at  Hull  together,  ftrugling  with  the 
increafing  Tide,  which,  well  for   us,    did 
not  break  my  hold  (for  if  it  had,  the  Ships 
which  lay  breaft  a  breaft  had  certainly  fuck- 
ed us  under)  when  feveral  on  the  Bridge, 
who  faw  us  fall?  brought  others  with  Ropes 
and  Lights  to  our  Afliftance;  and  efpeci- 
ally  my   Brother  Officer,   who  had  been 
Acceflary  as  well  as  Spectator  of  our  Ca- 
lamity j  tho'  at  laft  a  very  fmall  Portion 
of  our  Deliverance  fell  to  his  fhare. 

As  foon  as  I  could  feel  a  Rope,  I  quitted 
my  hold  of  the  Buoy  ;  but  my  poor  Drag  at 
my  Heels  would  not  on  any  account  quit 
his  hold  of  my  Leg.  And  as  it  was  next  to 
an  Impoifibility,  in  that  Pofture  to  draw  us 
up  the  Bridge  to  fave  both,  if  either  of  us, 
we  muft  ftili  have  perifhed,  had  not  the 
Alarm  brought  off  a  Boat  or  two  to 
our  Succour,  who  took  us  in. 

I  wascarry'd  as  faft  as  poifible,to  a  neigh- 
bouring Houfe  hard  by,  where  they  took 
Z  2  immedi-f 


[  34-o  ] 

immediate  care  to  make  a  good  Fire;  and 
where  I  had  not  been  long  before  our  in- 
tended Hoft,  the  Mafter  of  the  Ship,  came 
in  very  much  concern'd,  and  blaming  us  for 
not  hailing  the  Veffel,  before  we  made  an 
Attempt  to  enter.  For,  fays  he,  the  very 
Night  before,  my  Veflel  was  robb'd  ; 
and  that  Plank  and  Rope  were  a  Trap  de- 
flgn'd  for  the  Thieves,  if  they  came  again  $ 
not  imagining  that  Men  in  an  honeft  way 
would  have  come  on  board  without  asking 
Queftions.  Like  the  wife  Men  of  this 
World,  I  hereupon  began  to  form  Refolu- 
tions  againft  a  Thing,  which  was  never  a- 
gain  likely  to  happen  ,•  and  to  draw  Infe- 
rences of  Inftru&ion  from  an  Accident,  that 
had  not.  fo  much  as  a  Moral  for  its  Founda- 
tion. 

One  Day  after  this,  partly  oat  of  Bu- 
finefs,  and  partly  out  of  Curiofity,  I  went 
to  fee  the  Mint  here,  and  having  taken  no- 
tice to  one  of  the  Officers,  that  there  was  a 
difference  in  the  Imprefs  of  their  Crown 
Pieces,  one  having  at  the  bottom  the  Im- 
prefs of  a  Cow,  and  the  other  none  :  "  Sir, 
"  reply 'd  that  Officer,  you  are  much  in  the 
cc  right  in  your  Obfervation.  Thofe  that 
<c  have  the  Cow,  were  not  coin'd  here,  but 
<c  at  Taw,  the  chief  City  of  Navarr; 
<c  where  they  enjoy  the  Privilege  of  3 
iC  Mint,  as  well  as  we.  And  Tradition 
"  tells,  fays  he,  that  the  Reafon  of  that 

"  Addi- 


C  w  1 

*  Addition  to  the  Imprefs  was  this :  A 
cc  certain  King  of  Navarr  (when  it  was  a 
cc  Kingdom  diftinft  from  that  of  France) 
"  looking  out  of  a  Window  of  the  Palace^ 
<c  fpy'd  a  Cow,  with  her  Calf  {landing  a- 
cc  fide  her,  attack 'd  by  a  Lyon,  which  had 
cc  got  loofe  out  of  his  Menagery.  The 
cc  Lyon  ftrove  to  get  the  young  Calf  into 
"  his  Paw  $  the  Cow  bravely  defended 
cc  her  Charge  ^  and  fo  well,  that  the  Lyon 
cc  at  laft,  tir'd  and  weary,  withdrew,  and 
*  left  her  Miftrefs  of  the  Field  of  Battle; 
iC  and  her  young  one.  Ever  fince  which, 
cc  concluded  that  Officer,  by  Order  of  that 
a  King,  the  Cow  is  placd  at  the  bottom 
"  of  the  Imprefs  of  all  the  Money  there 
"  coined. 

Whether  or  no  my  Relator  guefs'd  at 
the  Moral,  or  whether  it  was  Fa&,  I  dare 
not  determine :  But  to  me  it  feem'd  appa- 
rent, that  it  was  no  otherways  intended,  than 
as  an  emblematical  Fable  to  cover,  and  pre- 
ferve  the  Memory  of  the  Deliverance  of  Hen- 
ry the  Fourth,  then  the  young  King  of Na- 
varr,  at  that  eternally  ignominious  Slaugh- 
ter, the  Maflacre  of  Paris.  Many  Hiftorf- 
ans,  their  own  as  well  as  others,  agree,  that 
the  Houfe  of  Guife  bad  levell'd  the  Malice 
of  their    Defign    at     that    great    Prince. 
They  knew  him  to  be  the  lawful  Heir ,  but 
as  they  knew  him  bred,  what  they  caif  I 
Z  3  Hit- 


[  34*  ] 

Uugonot,  Barbarity  and  Injuftice  was  eafily 
conceal'd  under  the  Cloak  of  Religion,  and 
the  Good  of  Mother  Church,  under  the  veil 
of  Ambition,  was  held  fufficient  to  poft-pone 
the  Laws  of  God  and  Man.  Some  of  thofe 
Hiftorians  have  deliver 'd  it  as  Matter  of 
Fa6i,  that  the  Confpirators,  in  fearching  af- 
ter rhat  young  King,  prefs'd  into  the  very  A- 
partments  of  the  Queen  his  Mother ;  who 
having,  at  the  Toll  of  the  Bell,  and  Cries 
of  the  Murdered,  taken  the  Alarm,  on  hear- 
ing em  coming,  placd  her  felf  in  her 
Chair ,  and  cover'd  the  young  King  her 
Son  with  her  Farthingale,  till  they  were 
gone.  By  which  means  ihe  found  an  oppor- 
tunity to  convey  him  to  a  Place  of  more 
Safety^  and  fo  preferv'd  him  from  thofe 
bloody  Murderers,  and  in  them  from  the 
Paw  of  the  Lyon.  This  was  only  a  private 
Refle&ion  of  my  own  at  that  Time  j  but  I 
think  carries  fo  great  a  Face  of  Probability, 
that  I  can  fee  no  prefent  Reafon  to  rejed  it. 
And  to  have  fought  after  better  Information 
from  the  Officer  of  the  Mint,  had  been  to 
facrifice  my  Difcretion  to  my  Curiofity. 

While  I  ftay'd  at  ffiayoiwe,  the  Princefs 
Urfini  came  thither,  attended  by  fome  of 
the  King  of  Spain  s  Guards.  She  had  been 
to  drink  the  Waters  of  fome  famous  Spaw 
in  the  Neighbourhood,  the  Name  of  which 
has  now  flipt  my  Memory.    Shewasmoft 

fplen- 


[  343  ] 

fplendidly  entertain'd  by  the  Queen  Dow- 
ager of  Spain ;  and  the  Marefchal  de  Mon- 
trevel  no  lefs  fignaliz'd  himfelf  in  his  Re- 
ception of  that  great  Lady,  who  was  at 
that  Inftant  the  greateft  Favourite  in  the 
Spanifl)  Court;  tho'  as  I  have  before  related, 
flbe  was  fome  Time  after  bafely  under- 
mined  by  a  Creature  of  her  own  advanc- 


ing. 


SJTONNE  is  efteem'd  the  third  Em- 
porium of  Trade  in  ail  France.  It  was 
once,  and  remained  long  fo,  in  the  PofTefli- 
on  of  the  Evgliflj ;  of  which  had  Hiftory 
been  filent ,  the  Cathedral  Church  had 
afforded  evident  Demonftration ;  being  in 
every  refpeft  of  the  Engli/h  Model,  and 
quite  different  to  any  of  their  own  way  of 
Building  in  France. 

TJMTELONJ  is  the  Capital  Citypampeio-- 
of  the  Spaniflo  Navarr,    fuppofed  to  have  na» 
been  built  by  'pompey.    'Tis  fituated  in  a 
pleafant  Valley,  furrounded  by  lofty  Hills. 
This  Town,  whether  famous  or  infamous, 
was    the    Caufe    of   the    firft    Inftitutioa 
of  the  Order  of  the  Jefuits.     For  at  the       ^ 
Siege  of  this  Place  Ignatius  Loyola  being  «**-^ 
only  a  private  Soldier,  receiv'd  a  fhot  on 
his  Thigh,  which  made  him  uncapable  of 
following  that  Profeffion  any  longer  ;  up- 
on which  he  fethis  Brains  to  work,  being 
a  fubtle  Man,  and  invented  the  Order  of 
Z  4  the 


I  344  3 

the  Jefuits,  which  has  been  fo  troublefome 
to  the  World  ever  fince. 

At  Saint  Stephen  near  Lerida^  an  Acti- 
on happened  between  the  Englijh  and  Spa- 
niards^ in  which  Major  General  Cunning- 
ham bravely  fighting  at  the  Head  of  his 
Men,  loft  his  Life,  being  extreamly  much 
lamented.  He  was  a  Gentleman  of  a  great 
Efjate,  yet  left  it,  to  ferve  his  Country  $ 
VDulce  eft  pro  T  atria  Mori. 

About  two  Leagues  from  T'/Sfcr/tf,  there 
is  a  very  pleafant  Hermitage  placd  upon  a 
fmall  rifing  Ground,  a  murmuring  Rivulet 
running  at  the  bottom,  and  a  pretty  neat 
Chapel  (landing  near  it,  in  which  I  faw 
Saint  Chriftopher  in  a  Gigantick  Shape,  ha- 
ving a  Chrifto  on  his  Shoulders.  The  Her- 
mit was  there  at  his  Devotion,  I  ask'd  him 
(tho'  I  knew  it  before)  the  reafon  why  he 
was  reprefented  in  fo  large  a  Shape :  The 
Hermit  anfwered  with  great  Civility,  and 
told  me3  he  had  his  Name  from  Chrifto  Fe- 
rendo>  for  when  our  Saviour  was  young,  he 
had  an  inclination  to  pafs  a  River,  fo  Saint 
Chriftopher  took  him  on  his  Shoulders  in 
order  to  carry  him  over,  and  as  the  Water 
grew  deeper  and  deeper,  fo  he  grew  higher 
and  higher. 

At  laft  we  received  News,  that  the 
Gloucester  Man  of  War,  with  two  Tran- 
fports,  was  arrived  at  Tort  'Parage,  in  or- 
der for  the  Tranfporting  of  all  the  remain- 

*  ing 


[  345  ] 

ing  Prifoners  of  War  into  England.  Ac- 
cordingly they  march'd  next  Day,  and 
there  embark'd.  But  I  having  before  a- 
greed  with  a  Mafter  of  a  VefTel,  which  was 
loaded  with  Wine  for  Jmfterdarny  to  fet 
me  afhoar  at  Dover,  ftay'd  behind,  waiting 
for  that  Ship,  as  did  that  for  a  fair  Wind. 

In  three  or  four  Days  Time,  a  fine  and 
fair  Gale  prefented  ;  of  which  the  Mafter  ta- 
king due  Advantage,  we  fail'd  over  the  Bar 
into  the  Bay  of  Sifcay.  This  is  with  Sai- 
lors, to  a  Proverb,  reckon'd  the  rougheft  of 
Seas ;  and  yet  on  our  Entrance  into  it,  no- 
thing appear'd  like  it.  Twas  fmooth  as 
Glafs ,-  a  Lady's  Face  might  pafs  for  young, 
and  in  its  Bloom,  that  difcover'd  no  more 
Wrinckles:  Yet  fcarce  had  we  fail'd  three 
Leagues,  before  a  prodigious  Fifh  prefented 
it  felf  to  our  View.  As  near  as  we  could 
guefs,  it  might  be  twenty  Yards  in  Length  ; 
and  it  lay  fporting  it  felf  on  the  Surface 
of  the  Sea,  a  great  Part  appearing  out  of  the 
Water.  The  Sailors,  one  and  all,  as  foot*- 
as  they  faw  it,  deciar'd  it  the  certain  Fore- 
runner of  a  Storm.  However,  our  Ship 
kept  on  its  Courfe,  before  a  fine  Gale, 
till  we  had  near  paffed  over  half  the  Bay ; 
when,  all  on  a  fudden,  there  was  fuch  a 
hideous  Alteration,  as  makes  Nature  re- 
coil on  the  very  Reflexion.  Thofe  Seas 
that  feem'd  before  to  fmile  upon  us,  with 
the  Afpeft  of  a  Friend,  now  in  a  Moment 

chang'd 


[346] 

chang'd  their  flattering  Countenance  into 
that  of  an  open  Enemy ;  and  Frowns,  the 
certain  Indexes  of  Wrath,  prefented  us  with 
apparent  Danger,  of  which  little  on  this 
Side  Death  could  be  the  Sequel.  The  an- 
gry Waves  caft  themfel ves  up  into  Mountains, 
and  fcourg'd  the  Ship  on  every  Side  from 
Poop  to  Prow :  Such  Shocks  from  the  con- 
tending Wind  and  Surges !  Such  Falls  from 
Precipices  of  Water,  to  difmal  Caverns  of  the 
fame  uncertain  Element !  Although  the  lat- 
ter leem'd  to  receive  us  in  Order  to  skreen 
us  from  the  Riot  of  the  former,  Imagination 
could  offer  no  other  Advantage  than  that  of 
a  Winding-Sheet,  prefented  and  prepared 
for  our  approaching  Fate.  But  why  mention 
I  Imagination  ?  In  me  'twas  wholly  dormant. 
And  yet  thofe  Sons  of  ftormy  Weather,  the 
Sailors,  had  theirs  about  them  in  full  Stretch  $ 
for  feeing  the  Wind  and  Seas  fo  very  boi- 
fterous,  they  lafli'd  the  K  ider  of  the  Ship, 
refolv'd  to  let  her  drive,  and  iteer  herfelf ; 
fince  it  was  paft  their  Skill  to  fteer  her.  This 
was  our  Way  of  fojourning  moft  Part  of  that 
tedious  Night ;  driven  where  the  Winds  and 
Waves  thought  fit  to  drive  us,  with  all  our 
Sails  quite  lower'd  and  flat  upon  the  Deck.  If 
Ovid>  in  the  little  Archipelagian  Sea,  could 
whine  out  hisjamjamjaBurus,  &c.  in  this 
more  difmal  Scene,  and  much  more  dange- 
rous Sea  (the  Pitch-like  Darknefs  of  the 
Night  adding  to  all  our  fad  Variety  of  Woes) 

what 


C  347  ] 

what  Words  in  Verfe  or  Profe  could  ferve 
to  paint  our  Paflions,  or  our  Expectations  ? 
Alas !  our  only  Expectation  was  in  the  Re- 
turn of  Morning  :  It  came  at  laft  •  yet  even 
flowly  as  it  came,  when  come,  we  thought  it 
come  too  foon,  a  new  Scene  of  fudden  Death 
being  all  the  Advantage  of  its  firft  Appear- 
ance. Our  Ship  was  driving  full  Speed,  to- 
wards the  "Breakers  on  the  Cabritton  Shore, 
between  Bordeaux  and  Sayonne ;  which  fil- 
led us  with  Ideas  more  terrible  than  all  be- 
fore, fince  thofe  were  paft,  and  thefe  feemingly 
as  certain,  Befide,  to  add  to  our  Diftrefs, 
the  Tide  was  driving  in,  and  confequently 
muft  drive  us  faft  to  vifible  Deftru&ion.  A 
State  fo  evident,  that  one  of  our  Sailors, 
whom  great  Experience  had  render'd  more 
fenfible  of  our  prefent  Danger,  was  prepa- 
ring to  fave  one,  by  lafhing  himfelf  to  the 
main  Maft,  againft  the  expe&ed  Minute  of 
Defolation.  He  was  about  that  melancholy 
Work,  in  utter  Defpair  of  any  better  Fortune, 
when,  as  loud  as  ever  he  could  bawl,he  cry'd 
out,  a  Point,  a  Toint  of  Wind.  To  me,  who  had 
had  too  much  of  it,  it  appear 'd  like  the  Sound 
of  the  laft  Trump  ,-  but  to  the  more  intelligent 
Crew,  it  had  a  different  Sound.  With  Vi- 
gour and  Alacrity  they  ftarted  from  their 
Prayers,  or  their  Defpair,  and  with  all  ima- 
ginable Speed,  unlafli'd  the  Rudder,  and  hoift- 
ed  all  their  Sails.  Never  fure  in  Nature 
did  one  Minute  produce  a  greater  Scene  of 

Con- 


[  348  ] 

Contraries.  The  more  skilful  Sailors  "took 
Courage  at  this  happy  Prefage  of  Delive- 
rance. And  according  to  their  Expecta- 
tion did  it  happen  p  that  heavenly  Point 
of  Wind  deliver'd  us  from  the  Jaws  of 
thofe  ^Breaker j,  ready  open  to  devour  us ; 
and  carrying  us  out  to  the  much  more 
vvellcome  wide  Sea,  furnifhed  every  one  in 
the  Ship  with  Thoughts,  as  diftant  as  we 
thought  our  Danger. 

We  endeavour'd  to  make  Port  Paffage  -y 
but  our  Ship  became  unruly,  and  would  not 
anfwer  her  Helm  ,-  for  which  Reafon  we  were 
glad  to  go  before  the  Wind,  and  make  for 
the  Harbour of  Saint  Jean  deLuz.  This  we 
attained  without  any  great  Difficulty,  and  to 
the  Satisfaction  of  all,  Sailors  as  well  as 
Paflengers,  we  there  caft  Anchor,  after  the 
moft  terrible  Storm  (as  all  the  oldeft  Sailors 
agreed)  and  as  much  Danger  as  ever  Peo- 
ple efcap'd. 

Here  I  took  notice,  that  the  Sailors 
buoy'd  up  their  Cables  with  Hogfheads  ,- 
enquiring  into  the  Reafon  of  which,  they 
told  me,  that  the  Rocks  at  the  Bottom  of 
the  Harbour  were  by  Experience  found  to 
be  fo  very  fharp,  that  they  would  other- 
wife  cut  their  Cables  afunder.  Our  Ship 
was  obliged  to  be  drawn  up  into  the  Dock 
to  be  refitted  ;  during  which,  I  lay  in  the 
Town,  where  nothing  of  Moment,  or  worth 
reciting,  happen  d. 


C  349  1 

I  beg  Pardon  for  my  Errors;    the  very 
Movements  of  Princes  muft  always  be  confi- 
derable,   and  confequently  worth  Recital. 
While  the  Ship  lay  in  the  Dock,  I  was  one 
Evening  walking  upon  the  Bridge,  with  the 
little  Ifland  near"' it,    (which  I  have  before 
fpoke  of)  and  had  a  little  Spanijh  Dog  a- 
long  with  me,  when  at  the  further  End  I 
fpy'd  a  Lady,  and  three  or  four  Gentlemen 
in  Company  ;  I  kept  on  my  Pace  of  Leifure, 
and  fo  did  they ;  but  when  1  came  nearer, 
I  found  they  as  much  out  number'd  me  in 
the  Dog,  as  they  did  in  the  human  Kind. 
And  I  foon  experienced  to  my  Sorrow,  that 
their  Dogs,  by  their  Fiercenefs  and  Ill-hu- 
mour, were  Dogs  of  Quality ;  having,  with- 
out Warning,    or  the  leaft   Declaration  of 
War,  fallen  upon  my  little  Dog,  accord- 
ing to  prifrine  Cuftom,  without  any  honou- 
rable Regard  to  Size,    Intereft    or  Num- 
vber.     However  the  good  Lady,    who,    by 
the  Privilege  of  her  Sex,  muft  be  allow'd 
the  moft  competent  Judge  of  Inequalities, 
out  of  an  Excels  of  Condefcenfion  and  Good- 
nefs,  came  running  to  the  Relief  of  oppref- 
fed  poor  Tony  $   and,   in  courtly  Language, 
rated  her  own   oppreflive   Dogs  for  their 
great  Incivility  to  Strangers.     The  Dogs, 
in  the  Middle  of  their  infulting  Wrath,   o- 
bey'd  the  Lady  with  a  vaft  deal  of  profound 
Submiflion  j  which  I  could  not  much  won- 
der at,  when  I  underftood,   that  it  was  a 

Queen 


[35°  3 

Queen  Dowager  of  Spain,  who  had  chid 
them. 

Our  Ship  being  now  repaired,  and  made 
fit  to  go  out  again  to  Sea,  we  left  the  Har- 
bour of  Saint  Jean  de  L/uz^  and  with  a 
much  better  Paffage,  as  the  laft  Tempeft 
was  ftill  dancing  in  my  Imagination,  in  ten 
Days  Sail  we  reach'd  (Dover.  Here  I  land- 
ed on  the  laft  Day  of  March,  1 7 1 3 .  having 
not,  till  then,  feen  or  touch'd  'Englifh  Shoar 
from  the  Beginning  of  May,  1705. 

I  took  Coach  dire&ly  for  London,  where, 
when  I  arriv'd,  I  thought  my  felf  tranfport- 
ed  into  a  Country  more  foreign,  than  any 
I  had  either  fought  or  pilgrimag'd  in.  Not 
foreign,  do  I  mean,  in  refpeit  to  others,  fo 
much  as  to  it  felf.  I  left  it,  feemingly,  un- 
der a  perfed  Unanimity:  The  fatal  Diftin- 
ftions  of  Whig  and  Tory  were  then  efteemed 
meerly  nominal ;  and  of  no  more  ill  Confe- 
quence  or  Danger,  than  a  Bee  robb'd  of  its 
Sting.  The  national  Concern  went  on  with 
Vigour,  and  the  prodigious  Succefs  of  the 
Queen's  Arms,  left  every  Soul  without  the 
leaft  Pretence  to  a  Murmur.  But  now  on^ 
my  Return,  I  found  them  on  their  old  Efta- 
blifhment,  perfect  Contraries,  and  as  un- 
likely to  be  brought  to  meet  as  direft  An- 
gles. Some  arraigning,  fome  extolling  of  a 
Peace ;  in  which  Time  has  fhown  both  were 
wrong,  and  confequently  neither  could  be 
right  in  their  Notions  of  it,  however  an  over 

preju- 


Iw  ] 

prejudiced  Way  of  thinking  might  draw 
them  into  one  or  the  other.  But  Whig  and 
Tory  are,  in  my  Mind,  the  compleateft  Pa- 
radox in  Nature,  and  yet  like  other  Para- 
doxes, old  as  I  am,  I  live  in  Hope  to  fee, 
before  I  die,  thofe  feeming  Contraries  per- 
fectly reconcile,  and  reduc'd  into  one  happy 
Certainty,  the  Publick  Good. 

Whilft  I  ftay'd  at  Madrid,  I  made  feve- 
ral  Vifits  to  my  old  Acquaintance  General 
Mahoni.  I  remember  that  he  told  me,  when 
the  Earl  of  Teterborow  and  he  held  a  Con- 
ference at  MorvidrO)  his  Lordfhip  ufed  many 
Arguments  to  induce  him  to  leave  the  Spa- 
nifh  Service.  Mahoni  made  feveral  Excufes, 
efpecially  that  none  of  his  Religion  was  fuf- 
fer'd  to  ferve  in  the  Englijh  Army.  My 
Lord  reply'd,  That  he  would  undertake  to 
get  him  excepted  by  an  A<5t  of  Parliament. 
I  have  often  heard  him  fpeak  with  great  Re- 
fpeft  of  his  Lordfhip,  and  was  ftrangely  fur- 
prized,  that  after  fo  many  glorious  Succelfes 
he  fhould  be  fent  away. 

He  was  likewife  pleafed  to  inform  me, 
that  at  the  Battle  of  Saragoza,  'twas  his 
Fortune  to  make  fome  of  our  Horfe  to  give 
way,  and  he  purfued  them  for  a  confiderable 
time  ;  but  at  his  Return,  he  faw  the  SpaniJJ} 
Army  in  great  Confufion  :  But  it  gave  him 
the  Opportunity  of  attacking  our  Battery  of 
Qunsj    which  he    performed    with   great 

Slaugh- 


E  35>  3 

Slaughter,  both  of  Gunners  and  MatrofTes  : 
He  at  the  fame  time  inquired,  who  'twas  that 
commanded  there  in  chief.  I  informed  him 
'twas  Col.  'Bourgtiard,  one  that  underftood 
the  Oeconomy  of  the  Train  exceeding  well. 
As  for  that,  he  knew  nothing  of ;  but  that 
he  would  vouch,  he  behaved  himfelf  with 
extraordinary  Courage,  and  defended  the 
Battery  to  the  utmoft  Extremity,  receiving 
feveral  Wounds,  and  deferved  the  Poll  in 
which  he  afted.  A  Gentleman  who  was  a 
Prifoner  at  Gualaxara^  informed  me,  that 
he  faw  King  Thilip  riding  through  that 
Town,  being  only  attended  with  one  of  his 
Guards* 
Saragoza.  Saragoza,  or  Gefar  Augufta,  lies  upon 
the  River  Ebro^  being  the  Capital  of  Arra- 
gon  ;  'tis  a  very  ancient  City,  and  contains 
fourteen  great  Churches,  and  twelve  Con- 
vents. The  Church  of  the  Lady  of  the  5P/7- 
lar  is  frequented  by  Pilgrims,  almoft  from 
all  Countries  j  'twas  anciently  a  Roman 
Colony. 

Tibi  lausy  tihi  honor Jibi  fiit  gloria  ^  Ogloriofa 
Trinitasy  quia  tu  dedifti  mihi  have  tp- 
portanitatem^  omnes  has  res geflas  rear- 
dandi.  Nomen  tuumfit  benediUurn>  per 
fitcula  faculorum.    Amen. 

FINIS. 


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