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brought in victuals plentifully) the Generall, I say, 

 hearing of this armie, had in purpose the next day 

 following to visite them, agaynst whom hee caried but 

 nine Regiments : in the vantgard were the Regiment of 

 Sir Roger Williams, Sir Edward Norris, and Colonell 

 Sidney : in the Battaile, that of the Generall, of Colonell 

 Lane, and Colonel Medkerk : and in the Rereward, Sir 

 Henrie Norris, Colonell Huntley, and Colonell Brets 

 Regiments ; leaving the other five Regiments with 

 Generall Drake, for the guard of the Cloister and 

 Artillerie. About ten of the clocke the next day, being 

 the sixt of May, halfe a mile from the campe, we 

 discovering the enemy, Sir Edward Norris, who com- 

 manded the vantgard in chiefe, appointed his Lieutenant 

 Colonell Captaine Anthonie Wingfleld to command the 

 shot of the same, who divided them into three troups ; 

 the one he appointed to Captaine Middleton to be con- 

 ducted in a way on the left hand : another to Captaine 

 Erington to take the way on the right hand, and the 

 body of them (which were Musquetiers) Captaine Wing- 

 field tooke himselfe, keeping the direct way of the 

 march. But the way taken by Captaine Middleton met 

 a little before with the way held by Captaine Wingfield, 

 so as he giving the first charge upon the enemy, was 

 in the instant seconded by Captaine Wingfield, who beat 

 them from place to place (they having very good places 

 of defence, and crosse walles which they might have 

 held long) till they betooke them to their bridge, which 

 is over a creeke comming out of the Sea, builded of 

 stone upon arches. On the foot of the further side 

 whereof, lay the Campe of the enemy very strongly 

 entrenched, who with our shot beaten to the further 

 end of the bridge, Sir Edward Norris marching in the 

 point of the pikes, without stay passed to the bridge, 

 accompanied with Colonell Sidney, Captaine Hinder, 

 Captaine Fulford, and divers others, who found the 

 way cleare over the same, but through an incredible 

 volley of shot ; for that the shot of their army flanked 



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