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Taunton, &c., Widey being head-quarters, with an 

 army consisting of five regiments of horse, and nine 

 regiments of foot, brought over-land from Yalme 

 River thirteen fisher boats into Plunkett (Pomphlet) 

 Mill Bay, over against Prince Rock, with an inten- 

 tion, as we conceived, to land men at Gatdown in 

 the night, which they did not attempt, but set on 

 Mount Stamford in good earnest; and the 21st of 

 October, in the night, they raised a square work 

 within pistol-shot of Stamford fort, on the N. E. 

 side, and from thence were drawing of a line with 

 half-moons to surround the said fort, thereby to 

 hinder our reliefs from coming into it. To prevent 

 which, the same day v^e fell on the enemy in their 

 new work they had raised, with all the disadvantages 

 on our part that possibly could be imagined, expos- 

 ing' our open naked bodies to an enemy withm a 

 strength, and assisted by their horse, who much 

 annoyed us ; we having none of our horse to assist 

 us, nor could have, the sea being between us and 

 them. After a long skirmish, ancl divers repulses, 

 at last we got their half-moon, and after three hours 

 hard fight, their close work, and in it Captain 

 White, and fifty other prisoners, in which work we 

 put a guard that night of thirty musqueteers, com- 

 manded by an ensign, by whose treachery or cow- 

 ardice, the enemy falling on in the night, the said 

 guard quitted the work to them, without giving any 

 alarm to the fort, (for which he was shot to death 

 shortly after) which cost us a new labour next day, 

 with farre greater difficulty and danger than before, 

 the enemy having of their horse and foot ready to 

 second their guard in their new regained work^ which 

 yet we made our own, after the loss on our part of 

 Captain Corbett, who was shot in the forehead as he 

 was encouraging the men as we fell upon their 

 works, and three others of our captains were also 

 wounded this day and the day before, and w^e had 

 in both fights some twenty men killed, and above a 

 hundred wounded, many of whom are since recovered. 



