princes, many men's whole generations; here was cruel Spain, and here indeed, had not God prevented, was a strong foundation for an universal monarchy; and, that Spain may not, in this, plead not guilty, let her discover to the world what occurents they were which drew Thomas Winter into her confines, what negotiation was that which he held with de Laxis? Whence came his instructions and letters commendatory into the Archduchess's country? Where did Guy Fawkes receive his breeding? Who gave information of his knowledge in mining? And who preferred and advanced him to this piece of most damnable service? Questionless, let truth answer to any of these positions, and the speech, it must utter, will be Spanish language: Who in all this nation was so intimate with you as the Archpriest Garnet? Or who, like him, found at your hands equal protection? He confessed and absolved the traitors, and thou didst absolve and confess him, and thereby didst get unto thyself, from thine own tribe, the nick-name of Archbisop Ambassador. Thus I have brought Spain's attempts for an universal monarchy, from Portugal to the Netherlands, thence through Italy, and so into France; England was looked upon by the way, in the year 1588, but she was not so drowsy as others: there is now but Germany betwixt him and the end of his ambition, but is that free and untouched ? Woe to speak it, that of all is the worst and most horrid. O! the lamentable estate of those once most happy princes! How hath the house of Austria drowned them in blood? And, by the work of civil dissension, made them in their furies to devour one another? Is there any thing in this age more lamentable or remarkable, than the loss of the Palatinate? Or is there any thing in which thy villainy can so much triumph as in that politick defeature? Why, the lyes which thou didst utter to abuse the Majesty of England, and to breed delays till thy master's designs were effected, were so curious and so cunning, so apt to catch, and so strong in the holding, that the devil, who was for merly the author of lyes, hath now from thee taken new precedents for lying. I would here speak of thy Archduchess's dissimulation; but she is a great lady, and their errors at the worst are weak virtues. 'Therefore to thee that hast lent both fuel and flame to all the mischiefs of Europe, and that art now big in labour with new troubles and vexations: arise and collect thy spirits; become once honest and religious; let thy services depend upon good and necessary affairs, and not upon malicious and bloody practices: for behold, I, thy tormentor, will never be absent from thine elbow, and whatsoever thou shalt contrive or plot for the hurt of Great Britain, I, with the help of the holy angels, will return upon thine own bosom, and the bosom of thy country, for the God of heaven and earth, who is the protector of the in nocent, hath made royal King Charles, and his throne, precious in his sight; therefore, if thou desirest to live and see good days, touch not his anointed, and do his prophets no hurt.' At these words, the glorious apparition, waving his sword about, vanished out of his sight, and the poor Don, as if awakened from a deadly or mortal sleep, rose up, looking about with such ghastly amazedness, as affrighted all that beheld him. In the end, espying his own servants, with tears in his eyes, terror in his heart, and a general trembling over all his body, he went into his litter, and returned home; where, how he refreshed himself, how he appeared before the designed commissioners, and how he answered the expectation both of them, and the King his master, shall be declared upon the next return of the woman-post, which passeth betwixt the English and the Spanish Jesuits. A TRUE AND MOST EXACT RELATION OF THE TAKING OF THE GOODLY SHIP, CALLED, THE SAINT ESPRIT, Belonging unto the French King; Which was built in Holland, and furnished with fifty-four Pieces of great Ordnance; Was surprised on the Twenty-eighth Day of September, EY SIR SACKVILLE TREVOR, KNIGHT, And since brought over, by him, unto Harwich, in Essex. LIKEWISE, The Proceedings of the Duke of Buckingham's Grace, in the Isle of Ree; the Killing of the base Brother of the French King, at the new Fort before Rochelle, with a Shot from one of our Ships; and also the appointed place of Rendezvous of the great Fleet threatened from Foreign Parts to raise the Siege at the Isle of Ree: with many other particulars. Published by Authority. London: printed by A. M. for Thomas Walkley; and are to be sold at his Shop, at the Sign of the Eagle and Child, in Britain's Burse. 1627. Quarto, containing fourteen pages. THE HE French-resolving to build some ships for the strengthening of their navy, and wanting materials and shipwrights in the kingdom, they determined to build them in Holland, at Amsterdam, and Enchuysen; a thing which the States of the United Provinces could not deny them, it being at their proper cost, in respect of those obligements which bind them to that nation. The notice whereof, together with their supposed time of launching, being advertised into England, his Majesty, to crush this crocodile in the shell, and to prevent the storm of the danger before it fell, sent out Sir Sackville Trevor, after his return from the river of Elve, where he made the Hamburghers come to reason, and searched their ships in despight of all opposition. He had with him in this last expedition a fleet of eight sail, whereof four were of the King's navy royal, the rest were merchants. His commission injoined him to ply up and down, upon the coast of Holland, and to take all French ships which he could meet withal. He observing carefully these orders, used all possible speed, and on Friday the twenty-eighth of September, he arrived at the Texel, a great road in North Holland, about eight of the clock at night, with all his fleet in safety. The Names of his Ships were these: The King's good ship, called the Assurance, carrying thirty-eight pieces of brass ordnance, wherein Sir Sackville himself went as admiral. The King's good ship, called the Adventure, carrying twenty-six brass pieces, wherein Captain George Allen commanded as vice-admiral. The good ship, called the Ambrose, carrying eighteen pieces of iron ordnance, wherein Capt. John Pette, the rear-admiral of the fleet, commanded. -The King's good ship, called the St. Mary of Roan, carrying sixteen great pieces, besides murderers, the captain whereof was Captain Thomas Bardesey. Captain Cheyney's ship, called the May Flower, of London. Captain Morgan's ship, called the Jacob. Capt. Needham, a pinnace belonging to the King, called the Maria, carrying six pieces of brass ordnance. These four latter ships were of no great burthen, but were well manned, and of quick steerage, and carried in all, besides the murderers, which they had upon their upper decks, twenty pieces of brass and iron ordnance. Sir Sackville Trevor got a Dutch pilot upon the coast, who being demanded concerning the ships that lay in the Texel, told him, that besides sixteen Hollandish men of war, and divers other vessels of good burthen, there lay one goodly French ship, called the St. Esprit, which was of the burthen of eight hundred tons, the upper works whereof were richly gilt with double angel gold, in the inside and outside of her, in those places which were fittest to express pomp and stateliness, as also the very port-holes were curiously carved with lions heads gaping that were richly double gilt. The pilot, after he had been fully questioned by Sir Sackville Trevor concerning all particulars, which might tend to the service, told him, that if he would give him gold, he would bring him to the side of her; whereupon Sir Sackville gave him a double Portugue in gold, valuing four pounds, sterling. We coming near unto their French ship, presently she sent out her long boat, being manned with French and Dutch, to hale us, and to see what we were: but our admiral commanding the men to come aboard us, we surprised the long-boat, and pinioned the men, and put them in the hold. Afterwards the Esprit, discovering us to be enemies, began to fight, and discharged, but without any effects of hurt, three great shot, and one hundred small shot. Then Sir Sackville Trevor, being willing to take occasion by the foretop, and to slack no time for fear of losing advantage, came up close to her, and gave her a whole broadside; so likewise did our vice-admiral and rear-admiral, and the St. Mary, where Captain Thomas Bardesey commanded; which shot was discharged with that quick motion, and working advantage, that their main-mast and bow-sprit being pierced through, they cried out for quarter, which, for good considerations, was granted them; so that by ten of the clock at night, which was two hours after our coming into the Texel, we became masters of this great and warlike ship. Before we came up close to her, but after they had discovered us to be enemies, those of the St. Esprit made a train in a chest filled with gunpowder, and other combustible materials, to blow up the ship, and our men that should enter it. But this resolution was again altered, because their long boat being taken by our admiral, they saw no other means of escape, but only by submitting themselves unto our mercy. That night we disposed of her men severally in our ships, being one hundred French and fifty Dutch. We gave all fair quarter to the Dutch, but the French were kept prisoners until the day before we came out of the Texel, and then they were all set on land in NorthHolland. After we had taken this ship, there came unto us Captain Dapper, in the True Love of Ipswich, and Captain Wall, in the Susan, of Alborough, on the Sunday following, whom we welcomed after the man ner of the sea. There was another goodly French ship, which was newly come over Wearing Flats, distant eight miles from the Texel, who receiving intelligence of our strength, and of what we had done, got hoys, lighters, and other small vessels of transportation; in which having lighted herself of her ordnance, she got over the flats to Enchuysen, before our men could come up to her. We came up with eight sail of ships to take her, but losing our labour, by means that she was safely harboured in Enchuysen, we returned back again unto our Admiral, who expected our coming in the Texel road. Some of the states of the neighbour towns came aboard us, and demanded peremptorily, by virtue of what commission we came to fetch that ship out of their road. Our admiral told them, that he had commission to take all French ships which he could meet withal, and he was assured that this was a French ship, and therefore he adventured to take her, without any further commission. Capt. George Allen, our vice-admiral, and some others of this fleet, stay upon the coast of Holland, for the intercepting of this, and other French ships; the rest, under the conduct of Sir Sackville Trevor, brought home the surprised ship to Harwich. This goodly ship taken on the twenty-eighth of September, as is aforesaid, had forty-two pieces of ordnance mounted, twelve pieces unmounted in her hold, two hundred and six armours, one hundred and fifty musquets, and sixty barrels of gunpowder. The specification of her ordnance, and other particulars, follows: Item, Upon her lower tier, twenty whole culverings of brass of full size, being in height five inches and a quarter. In her steerage, two demy culverings of brass, in height four inches, one quarter, and better. Item, Two drakes upon the half deck, being brass, of sacker bore. 24 brass. Item, Upon her upper tier twelve dema-culverings of iron, in height four inches and a quarter. Item, Four sackers of iron, upon the half deck. 18 iron. Sum total mounted is 42. Item, It is reported, there are in hold twelve pieces of iron, all whole culverings; we took the height of two, being five inches, the rest we could not come to. The length of the ship, by the keel, is one hundred and five feet. From the kirchin to the deck in depth twelve feet. Item, One hundred and fifty musquets. Concerning the proceedings of our army and navy in the island of Ree, commonly called St. Martin's, there hath happened no memorable accident, as far as we can understand, since the Wednesday se'nnight after Sir John Burrows was slain, upon the night of which day, our men surprised many boats, as they were passing to the fort with victuals; the particulars of which exploit were related in our last journal; but concerning the occurrences happening in the main, we have received their advertisements, by letters out of France, on Wednesday last, being the third of October. That the French King, being fully bent to follow his designs against Rochel, and to pluck out that thorn, which, as the Cardinal intimated unto him, had so long stuck in the sides of his sovereignty, continues the building of his new fort, on purpose to debar the townsmen from all ingress and egress by water. He follows this work with great charge and great labour, as well knowing how important the finishing thereof will be for his farther ends and intentions. He hath caused twelve whole cannons to be mounted before the breast of this fort, with which his cannoniers make divers random shot into the |