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<P>An Unhappy VIEVV OF THE VVhole behaviour of my Lord Duke of BUCKINGHAM, AT THE French I&s;land, called the I&s;le of RHEE</P>
<P>Di&s;covered By Colonell <HI>William Fleetwood,</HI> an un|fortunate Commander in that untoward SERVICE.</P>
<P>LONDON, Printed for <HI>R. Smith.</HI> 1648.</P>
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<HEAD>AN Unhappy view of the whole behaviour of my Lord Duke of <HI>Buckingham,</HI> at the French I&s;land, called the I&s;land of REE.</HEAD>
<P>AT a private a&s;&s;embly at the Councell Table by the King and the Lords, and to extingui&s;h the ignominy of the former &s;ervice of <HI>Cales,</HI> an attempt into <HI>France</HI> was concluded on, and the Duke de&s;ign|ed for Generall, who took the honour indifferently gladly, pre&s;uming to recover his lo&s;t honour and credit by his own Prowe&s;&s;e in his Exploit.</P>
<P>Hereupon began a &s;trong pre&s;&s;e of Souldiers, &s;o large a provi&s;ion of Victuals, and other mainte|nance for them, as could not but in common rea|&s;on promi&s;e a boon voyage to come, if the intent were clo&s;ely carryed.</P>
<P>But before any Souldiers were imbarqued, the Duke ouc of an evill will to the weal-publique, di|vulged the plot at Court very freely, without any feare or wit, whereby the wor&s;t of our ill-willers where&s;oever (taking but the pains to addre&s;&s;e them|&s;elves thither) might know al for an ea&s;ie attention, which mu&s;t needs be half a prevention of the hopes in que&s;tion.</P>
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Upon the point of our fir&s;t &s;etting to Sea, the Duke out of a di&s;tru&s;t of &s;ome mi&s;erable death that might befall him&s;elf in the voyage, as of the con&s;i|deration of being for a time e&s;tranged from his ef|feminate plea&s;ures here at home, from which no warlike &s;ervice could ever with-draw him, would willingly have relinqui&s;ht his Charge; without a|ny allegation, either of the weaknes, unexperience, or in&s;ufficiency of his own per&s;on, but that he was prickt and &s;purred on to it afre&s;h, by the onely per&s;wa&s;ion of his Maje&s;ty: For that the eyes of all the Troops, were fixed on him for their Chieftain.</P>
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<HEAD>Vpon this we put forth to Sea, and inclined our &s;elves by the Dukes direction to the I&s;land of <HI>Rhee,</HI> or <HI>St. Martins.</HI></HEAD>
<P>Where, as well every Mechanick and common Souldiers, as Captains, and Collonels in our Com|pany, knew, where our Journey was to end. But, <HI>Lord!</HI> the Dukes carriage at Sea was ob&s;tinate and ridiculous, and altogether backward to his faith and credit, laid to pawn here at home in his ab|&s;ence; for what&s;oever the circum&s;pect Comman|ders under him had propounded, as behoovefull, he would be &s;ure to gain-&s;ay it, under a vile penal|ty, to command, that no Invention &s;hould be &s;o
<PB N="3" REF="3">much as &s;et on foot, but what proceeded from his &s;tudy and approbation, &s;o to be wholly inriched &amp; dignified with the Attribute of compa&s;&s;ing all the good fortune that could any way attend the Enter|prize, as he now, contrariwi&s;e, &s;urfeits of the di&s;|grace.</P>
<P>The I&s;landers, through the largenes of the Dukes tongue, being too inqui&s;itive after their fortificati|ons of divers plaguie Pa&s;&s;engers at Sea, were ac|quainted with our meanings, long before they &s;aw us, and we arrived not there without an unlucky expectation, and entertainment.</P>
<P>After we had viewed the Fort and Scituation, we began to demand of the Duke, wherein our Country could be advantaged, by &s;uppre&s;&s;ing &s;uch a va&s;t &s;trong, ill-favoured place, in that the mainte|nance thereof after our conque&s;t, would yearly ex|pend very neer as much, as the profit could amount unto.</P>
<P>To this he replyed, that through his own En|treaty, upon His Maje&s;ties Signing of his Com|mi&s;&s;ion, he was only put upon this I&s;land, which, if he &s;hould but recover, at his return, it would redeem all his lo&s;t honour at home; and &s;o commanded us to intrench our &s;elves.</P>
<P>We all being confident, that the Expre&s;&s;ion could not but proceed from an undaunted heart,
<PB N="4" REF="4">&s;ome of us pre&s;ently in a de&s;perate manner, went on &s;hore (expecting the Duke and his Retinue at our heeles) where we were &s;uddenly unawares en|countred very &s;harpely by &s;ome Troops of <HI>French</HI> Hor&s;emen (which by means that the Duke kept at Sea, and came not in to our &s;uccour) &s;o oppre&s;&s;ed us with their multitude, that many of our compa|ny in our return to our &s;hips, were hewn to pieces, or drowned in the water, as Sir <HI>William Hayden, Mr. Temple</HI> of <HI>Lincoln Inne,</HI> and many other of good pa|rentage.</P>
<P>The third day after the repul&s;e, we renewed our &s;trength, and went all again on &s;hore, and there for|tified our &s;elves for our mo&s;t advantage, and in &s;hort time after, &s;o furiou&s;ly &s;ummoned the I&s;land, that the Inhabitants were con&s;trained to retire to their Fort, as their la&s;t refuge, to the gates whereof we pur&s;ued them with great terror, and took &s;ome pri&s;oners.</P>
<P>Then perceiving the &s;trength and compa&s;&s;e of the Fort, and under&s;tanding that it was well Victu|alled for a lingring Siege, we recoyled back, and in|trenched our &s;elves anew from the annoy of their Cannon, and by degrees we came at la&s;t to invi|ron it almo&s;t round (as far as it was any way need|full) and yet kept out of the danger of their Ordi|nance &s;till, and for a good while deprived them of
<PB N="5" REF="4">all &s;uccours, both by Sea and land, and &s;o planted our Battery.</P>
<P>Thus farre we &s;ped indifferently well, having, in recompence of our fir&s;t overthrow, gained the I|&s;land, and put our &s;elves in po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion of it.</P>
<P>The honour and applau&s;e whereof dete&s;teth the Duke and his be&s;t merits in the whole action, and, next under God, reflects on the Ever-having fame and memory of that Right Valiant, and Heroique Gentleman Sir <HI>John Burrows,</HI> by who&s;e onely reach it was compa&s;&s;ed, and whole act herein, &s;ince in a calme &s;ea&s;on, he was afterwards trecherou&s;ly &s;lain, de&s;erves, if one may &s;ay &s;o without pre&s;umption, to immortallize his Soule.</P>
<P>The Fort now remaining unyeelded, and &s;tand|ing betwixt us and a rea&s;onable Conque&s;t, by the powerfull and &s;earching per&s;wa&s;ion of Sir <HI>John Burrows,</HI> as well common Souldiers as Captains prote&s;ted to have too, or el&s;e to dye in the field, which promi&s;e, the very Flower of all our Com|manders there, were inforced in the end to make good, to the very effu&s;ion of their deare&s;t bloud: And thus we continued our Battery for above two moneths &s;pace; and yet in all that time, through the extraordinary &s;trength of the place, by rea&s;on of the Rampiers, and Barracadoes, that the defen|dants had new erected within, we could make no
<PB N="6" REF="5">breach, nor take other opportunity to give an a&s;|&s;ault.</P>
<P>Whereupon for that our provi&s;ion held out well, it was determined by Sir John Burrowes (who&s;e weake&s;t advi&s;e at this time, the multitude were readier to follow than the be&s;t of the Dukes) that we &s;hould beleagure the round Fort &s;till as we had begun, and without a &s;urrender thereof by a long &s;eige, &s;hould &s;tarve up the defendants, and (all things con&s;idered) this was the onely way to &s;ur|prize &s;o impregnable a place.</P>
<P>The Duke was infinitly incen&s;ed with this &s;way of Sir <HI>John-Burrowes,</HI> and his owne neglect, and therefore by degrees hee indeavoured to allure the hearts of the Souldiers from him, which bare words could not doe, nor bring to pa&s;&s;e till he privatly had di&s;tributed to &s;ome of them a&s;|&s;enting, the pay of the re&s;t di&s;centing, whereup|on &s;uch a murmuring di&s;content aro&s;e betwixt the faction of Sir <HI>John Burrowes</HI> and the <HI>Duke,</HI> that had not Sir <HI>John</HI> &s;uddenly quieted all by his wi&s;dome, we had certainly mutined among&s;t our &s;elves to all our confu&s;ion, and &s;o have given the Enemy an oc|ca&s;ion of advantage, but they &s;eemed to be recon|ciled, and new celebrated the amity, the &s;ame night, by a private Supper in the Dukes Tent</P>
<P>But &s;uch is the malice of a vindicative heart, that
<PB N="7" REF="5">it is never appea&s;ed, but remaines &s;till inexorable and devili&s;h.</P>
<P>For the next morning Sir <HI>John Burrows</HI> (accord|ing to his daily wont) &s;urveying his own Trenches and being cleare out of all danger of the Fort, was in an in&s;tant &s;tricken dead in the place with a mu&s;|ket, &s;hot by an unknown hand, and &s;o gives up his &s;potle&s;&s;e &s;oul into the joyes of Heaven, that had ne|ver done but good on earth.</P>
<P>The newes and manner of this bred a new hur|ly burley in the Campe, and ready we were to dye againe upon each others &s;words, but through fre&s;h rewards from the Duke to &s;ome, and Lord like meanes to other &s;ome that had been formerly re|warded, all were once more quieted, and our pro|vi&s;ion was much le&s;&s;ened, whereupon my Lord of <HI>Holland</HI> was &s;ent to for our releife but came not.</P>
<P>About this time there was news, that the French King approached with releife for the Fort, and to rai&s;e our &s;eig wherupon the Duke for the &s;afeguard of his owne per&s;on (wheras his retinew were the &s;tronge&s;t already, withdrew two of the be&s;t Regim. from the &s;ure places wher Sir <HI>John Burrows</HI> had for|merly allotted them for his own defence in parti|cular, and &s;o left al manle&s;&s;e, which the <HI>French</HI> Con|voyes perceiving, entred there the &s;ame night, &amp; re|leived the <HI>Fort</HI> in abundance both with fre&s;h <HI>&s;oldier</HI>
<PB N="8" REF="6">and provi&s;ion, and &s;o nightly for a week together came under our no&s;es with the like &s;tuffe, and yet the Duke would not &s;uffer us to encounter them, pretending that hee feared the French King at his backe; when (alas) there was neither King nor French Army there.</P>
<P>When the Fort was as well manned as victualed, the defendants began divers times to confront and brave us, before their maine &s;ally out, yet this our Generall would neither permit us to incounter them, nor at la&s;t to continue our battery, &s;o that in a very di&s;contented manner we lay idle, riotou&s;ly con&s;uming the remainder of His Maje&s;ties allow|ance, without attempting any thing worth the while: In&s;omuch that I my &s;elfe impartially de|manded of the Duke what he would doe with us, whether he longed to inthrall us to his owne igno|ble plea&s;ure, or to &s;tarve us up in&s;tead of the de|fendants, but could draw no other an&s;wer from him, but that he was our General, and &s;o we &s;hould know it by the &s;trict hand he would carry over us.</P>
<P><HI>And for our further proceedings again&s;t the Fort, wee &s;hould goe on in our idlene&s;&s;e till wee heard further from him.</HI></P>
<P>Wee that were Colonels and prime Officers un|der him could hardly brook this his untoward car|irage (as raw meat on our &s;tomachs) yet for quiet|ne&s;&s;e
<PB N="9" REF="6">&s;ake, to repell mutenies in the Camp, we &s;mo|thered our grudge, without any appearance of heart burning to the multitude, and &s;o lay expecting a mi&s;erable &s;ucce&s;&s;e of all our undertakings. After|wards the Duke told us, that he had &s;ecret intelli|gence out of the Fort, that mo&s;t of their be&s;t Soul|diers had conveied them&s;elves away by night, for feare of a new &s;upply by my Lord of <HI>Holland,</HI> and that the Remnant (if we lay &s;till intrencht) would &s;hortly become our Va&s;&s;als, which news being con|firmed with as large prote&s;tations as could proceed from the heart of any Chri&s;tian man, made us &s;o farre to credit him, as to lie &s;ecure, and to pre&s;ume, that this, once done, would make us all as happy, as our confidence in his word, could any wayes make us mi&s;erable by the contrary.</P>
<P>The very next morning after this con&s;ultation, which fell out to be the day of doom to mo&s;t of us, the Duke being &s;en&s;ible of his perfideous dealings, &amp; that was the day the Defendants would encoun|ter us to death, notwith&s;tanding what his engage|ment for our &s;afety had formerly bin to the contra|ry, privily in his Tent, by the help of his faction; attired one of his own followers, every way much re&s;embling him&s;elf, in his warlike habit &amp; colours, with in&s;tructions &s;uitable to the deceipt, and then di&s;gui&s;ed, as a faint and impotent &s;ouldier, got him|&s;elf
<PB N="10" REF="7">a Shipboard, and not onely left us ignorant of the bloody intent towards us, but al&s;o made us un|capable to prevent it, when we &s;hould.</P>
<P>Immediatly upon this, we &s;u&s;pecting as little this treachery (as that which came of it) the defendants numberle&s;&s;e &s;allied out, and with &s;uch violence, and fury a&s;&s;ayled us in our Trenches (they taking mo&s;t of us unarmed, and daunted with the &s;ight of the multitude) that wee were glad to fly for our lives.</P>
<P>Which retreat co&s;t mo&s;t of us our lives (as the a&s;|&s;ault and both fel out in the end) to make up a con|que&s;t to the <HI>French,</HI> &amp; an ab&s;olute overthrow to us.</P>
<P>The wildne&s;&s;e of my Lord <HI>Mountjoyes</HI> hor&s;e was the cau&s;e of his &s;urprizall, and as well of the death of &s;ome of our own men, for that he not onely a|voyded the Enemies charge, but confu&s;edly ranne upon, and beat back divers of our be&s;t hor&s;es, which otherwi&s;e to the very death would have &s;tood it out</P>
<P>In our flight we aimed at a certain narrow bridge, over agreat River, which if we could have recover|ed and pa&s;&s;ed, we had &s;topt the pur&s;uit of our Ene|mies, but through their pollicy we were prevented by their overturning a loded Cart there beforehand which we mu&s;t either climbe over, or leape into the River, or &s;alt-pits, which mo&s;t of our Com|pany being unable to doe, were in&s;tantly hewen
<PB N="11" REF="7">in peeces, Sir <HI>Charles Rich</HI> and others of great e|&s;teeme, who in the very deadly extremity were offered quarter; but would not, rather chu&s;ing to dye honourably, then longer to live with infa|my and torment, I my &s;elfe perceiving the folly of re&s;i&s;ting any longer, having one of the be&s;t Hor&s;es in the Company, was forced to take an infirme Salt-pit, where both my &s;elfe and my hor&s;e &s;tuck fa&s;t in the ground, and where I had &s;uddenly a ga&s;hly wound in the legge with a Bullet, and &s;o I lay &s;truggling for life, Lord, Lord, (me thought) what paine it was to dye &s;o, and divers of our Company and Commanders were in the like di|&s;tre&s;&s;e, But in the end the <HI>French</HI> hor&s;emen, wanting &s;hot to reach us in the water, by the valiancy of the poore remainder of our &s;ouldiers, that were gotten over the Cart, wee were dragged a &s;hoare, and &s;o being at that time unpur&s;ued, were conveyed out of danger.</P>
<P>During the time of our conflict, our counterfeit Generall fought very re&s;olutely, and got a ga&s;h or two in his &s;houlder for his pains and labour, which (before we knew the deceit) made us, notwith|&s;tanding our lo&s;&s;es, to commend him for a valour|ous Commander, but through the <HI>Dukes</HI> back ward|nes, &s;ome of tho&s;e that were tru&s;ted with the know|ledge of this Villany, we under&s;tood it all in
<PB N="12" REF="8">two dayes after, in our comfortle&s;&s;e journey home|wards, and we had thereupon pre&s;ently mortalized his carka&s;&s;e for amends, but that, upon a more ma|ture deliberation, we thought it fitter to let him die at home, by the inque&s;tionable hand of the Parlia|ment, &s;o he him&s;elf could not take this as his pre|&s;ervation, but as his re&s;ervation to a more infamous end. And truely &s;hould the revenge of the Parlia|ments almo&s;t extremity &s;eize upon him, it would be but corre&s;pondent to his merits, that would find in his heart to lye &s;ecure him&s;elf, and all the while to &s;ee us, that were his charge, knocked down, and &s;laughtered like dogges: O let him go to the grave and let no man &s;tay him, for it is a &s;in to pity him in his wor&s;t e&s;tate.</P>
<P>My Lord <HI>Mountjoy,</HI> was the onely man of note of our party, that accepted Quarter, and was &s;ince very honourably ran&s;omed, and &s;ent home againe, which proceeded more from the Heroique cle|mency of the <HI>French</HI> King, then for any de&s;ert, ei|ther of his own or ours.</P>
<P>One of our <HI>French</HI> pri&s;oners that we have taken at our fir&s;t encounter, confe&s;&s;ed to me, in our re|turn homewards, that had Sir <HI>John Burrowes</HI> lived one two dayes longer, the Defendants were conclu|ded to have given up the Fort, and all the trea&s;ure in it, to our di&s;po&s;ure, in re&s;pect they had &s;o mi&s;erable
<PB N="13" REF="8">experience of his vigilant intercepting of all their convoyes, and &s;topping of their pa&s;&s;ages; And therefore this reach could not but redownd to their utter confu&s;ion in the end, unle&s;&s;e they &s;ubmitted them&s;elves betimes, but the news of his death was joyous unto them, as it was grievous unto us, and made them re&s;olve to dye in their own defences, but the mi&s;take at la&s;t co&s;t mo&s;t of us our lives.</P>
<P>And this is the whole de&s;cription of our mi&s;-for|tunes, which upon a due con&s;ideration (I think) mu&s;t needs provoke the poore&s;t affected of our na|tion, to indevour a revenge to be done; In all our future Voyages, he mu&s;t and will be &s;till our Ge|nerall, and then to thrive (at lea&s;t) after the old fa|&s;hion, we mu&s;t a&s;&s;ure our &s;elves.</P>
<P>We have not been a little famous in France, for Conque&s;t heretofore with a few, but God Almigh|ty is omnipotent and ju&s;t, and we now &s;ee it is his plea&s;ure, to make us all to &s;uffer for the &s;in and la|&s;civious life of this one man: His will be done in all.</P>
<P>And if we can, we mu&s;t be content (be&s;ides too notwith&s;tanding) he hath been the death of divers of the nobility, the unlucky overthrow of all our late voyages.</P>
<P>The unknown con&s;umer of our Trea&s;ury, and the utter confu&s;ion of the poore <HI>Prote&s;tants</HI> in <HI>France,</HI> now daily ma&s;&s;acred without all pity,
<PB N="14" REF="9">through their needle&s;&s;e defence of their Religion.</P>
<P>Yet it is the Kings plea&s;ure &s;till to afford him his wonted grace and connivance for all this; And Trea&s;on it is apparent to denounce him faulty in any thing; But let his Maje&s;ty look to it, for his longer &s;heltring of this rich Traytor, and fal&s;e-hear|ted man, both to God and his Country, which will be the ruine both of him&s;elf and his kingdom at la&s;t, yet then I have hope (out of the integrity of his heart, now while&s;t it is called to day, and before the evill day come) he will give him over to the Parliament, whil&s;t it is of &s;trength to puni&s;h him; And that they for their parts will &s;end him to H. without any more adoe.</P>
<P><HI>If any hereafter &s;hall maligne, or goe about to di&s;prove me in any one of the&s;e points (&s;o I may be unque&s;tionable for this pre&s;umption) I will, notwith&s;tanding my lame|ne&s;&s;e, maintaine all upon notice to his face, to the expence of my deare&s;t blood; In the interim, I expect good news from the Parliament, by the next faire wind.</HI></P>
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