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and one Raimond a Gascoign, with about an 

 Imndred common soldiers. In the mean time, 

 Sir Walter Bisset stoutly defended the ship till 

 midnight, when the tide returned ; whereupon 

 the Welsh, who assailed us on all sides, were 

 forced to withdraw, being much concerned that 

 we had so happily escaped their hands. The car- 

 go of this ship was three hundred hogsheads of 

 wine, with plenty of other provision for the army, 

 which at that time it stood in very great need of. 

 But the next morning when the sea was returned, 

 the Welsh came merrily down again to the ship, 

 thinking to surprise our men, but as luck would 

 have it, they had at full sea the night before relin- 

 quished the ship, and returned safe to the camp. 

 The enemy missing our men, set upon the cargo 

 of the ship, carried away all the wine and other 

 provisions; and then, when the sea began to flow, 

 they set fire to the vessel, and returned to the rest 

 of the army. And thus we lay encamped in great 

 misery and distress for want of necessaries, ex- 

 posed to great and frequent dangers, and in great 

 fear of the private assaults and sudden incursions 

 of our enemies. Oftentimes we set upon and as- 

 sailed the Welsh, and in one conflict we carried 



away a hundred head of cattle, w hich very tri- 



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