AND ITS SURROUNDINGS. 159 



tooke from us at Liskerd. We lost seven men that were 

 slaine, and Sergeant-Major Herbert's Lieutenant and six 

 others, that were taken prisoners by adventuring too 

 farre. It is supposed that they have a hundred men 

 slaine, besides abundance hurt : we have three or four hurt, 

 but not dangerously. 



This evening, Captaine Boskowen, with a partie of Horse, 

 hath brought in twelve prisoners, of which there are two 

 Captaines, viz., Captaine Nevill Blight (a furious malignant), 

 and one Captaine Pomroye, that was sent to London by 

 water, with the Sheriffe, but escaped thence."* 



By this pamphlet we see that the Sheriff, Sir Edmund 

 Fortescue, Captain Pomeroy, and others, who were taken 

 prisoners at Modbury, were marched towards Dartmouth for 

 the purpose of " sending them to London by water" And 

 we are also told that Captain Pomeroy (and probably the 

 others) " escaped thence." The manner of this escape is not 

 known, but that they did escape accounts for their being so 

 soon again at their old posts of duty for the King. 



About three quarters of a mile beyond Salcombe, towards 

 the harbour, are the remains of Fort Charles, built on a rock, 

 and insulated at high water. 



There had been an ancient castle, called the Old Bulwark, 

 standing on this site for ages before the time of the civil war, 

 (Hawkins says it was attributed to the Saxons) but which 

 was in 1643 "utterly ruined and decayed" It is not 

 improbable that Sir Edmund Fortescue suggested the im- 

 portance of its restoration. He certainly made known his 

 willingness to undertake to reconstruct and re-fortify it, and 



* This very rare old pamphlet was in the possession of the late George 

 Prideaux, Esq., of Plymouth. It is also among the King's pamphlets in 

 the British Museum. 



