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and Lory Point, and the horse were taken, or 

 drowned when the sea came in ; some of the riders 

 crawling through the mud, hardly escaped ; many 

 of the enemy were killed in their retreat by our 

 horse and foot, and by tlie ships at Lory Point, who 

 then grew honest again ; of the prisoners we took 

 a Captain, a Lieutenant of horse, and one Langford, 

 a priest, that was a captain, and some thirty soldiers, 

 and thirteen barrels of powder, two teams of horses 

 with furniture, by wliich they were drawing up our 

 ordnance against us. Of ours, the enemie took in 

 our first retreat, one Captain, one Lieutenant, one 

 Ensign, forty common men, besides a Captain, and 

 twelve men killed ; and 100 more wounded, of 

 whom some are since dead. The Lord showed him- 

 self wonderfully in our deliverance: in that, when 

 the enemv had gotten a ground of advantage, and 

 were ten to one against us, yet was pleased, by our 

 handfull, to drive them back another way than they 

 came. The same day the enemy, with horse and 

 foot assaulted Penny-Com-Quick work, and were 

 repulsed with much loss. The enemy being thus 

 repulsed, suffered us to be quiet (as his usual man- 

 ner was) for fifteen or twenty days after ; in the 

 mean time, gathering his routed troopers, save that 

 one night he fell upon a work we were raising under 

 Lypson, called Lypson Mill work, for the prevention 

 of the enemy's incursion again that way, and partly 

 slighted it ; our guard there quitting it without a 

 shot, from which they suddenly entered it again, 

 and the work was re-edified. 



Upon the 1 8th of December, the enemy began to 

 batter ; but by reason of our counter battery, which 

 played constantly into their works through their 

 ports, whereby their men could not stand safely by 

 their ordnance, we having the advantage of playing 

 down upon them from a commanding ground, the 

 enemy m two days' time could do no good with his 

 batteries ; but on Wednesday night, the 20th of 

 December, through the carelessness of the Captain 



