180 THE SIEGE OF PLYMOUTH, 



Lypson, in regard of a deep valley between, by rea- 

 son whereof, after three days battery, they did httie 

 execution. 



About this time, one Ellis Carteret, a malignant 

 mariner, was accused, and laid fast, for tampering 

 with Roger Kemborn, the chief runner of Maudline 

 work, to blow up the said work, the powder-room 

 being buried in it, and he havuig the keys, which 

 was discovered by the said Kemborn, after he had 

 concealed it divers days, God not suffering' his con- 

 science to give him rest till he had revealed it. On 

 the apprehension of Carteret, Henry Pike, a vintner^ 

 and Moses Collins, an attorney, two notorious maliu:- 

 nants, conceived to be privy to this tamper, lied to 

 the enemy ; and, upon the 3d day of December^ 

 being Lord's day, the enemy, (as is credibly inform- 

 ed) guided by those two renegadoes, with four hun- 

 dred musqueteers, three hours before day, surprised 

 our guard at Lory Point, and in it three pieces of 

 ordnance. The work is but a half-moon, and the 

 guard there placed only to give the alarm, if the 

 enemy should approach Lory Point over the sands 

 when the tide is out : by which means, the enemy 

 coming under Lypson work, (being a false variable 

 ground to them, by reason of its steepness) and 

 coming on the back of our guard, easily surprised it. 

 The alarm being given to the town, 150 horse, and 

 300 musqueteers, at break of day, were ready to fall 

 on upon the enemy that were possest of our work, 

 which the enemy at Mount Stamford perceivinor^ 

 (for we fell on the south side of the hill from the 

 enemy's view) gave the main body of the enemy, 

 which was in quarters at Compton, Buckland, 

 Widey, and Knocker's Hole, all in arms, a warning 

 piece, upon which Prince Maurice, and all the gal- 

 lantry of their army, with five regiments of horse, 

 and four of foot, (having in the night made their way 

 with pioneers) advanced under protection of their 

 own ordnance, and a hedge, which they possest, 

 where we usually had our sentries, and where we 



