A
TRVE
REPORT
OF
THE
SERVICE
DONE
VPON
CERTAINE
GALLIES
passing
thorough
the
Narrow
Seas
.
ON
the
three
and
twentie
day
of
September
being
in
the
Hope
,
and
hauing
in
my
company
,
the
Aduauntage
onely
of
the
Queenes
Ships
,
which
Captaine
Iones
commanded
,
and
two
other
Dutch
men
of
warre
:
I
ridde
more
then
halfe
Channell
ouer
,
towards
the
coast
of
France
,
vpon
a
Northwest
and
Southest
line
:
my selfe
being
neerest
that
coast
,
Captaine
Iones
next
vnto
me
,
and
the
Dutch
men
of
warre
a
Sea-boord
,
and
to
the
westward
of
him
.
The
small
force
at
that
time
present
and
with
me
remaining
,
thus
disposed
for
the
intercepting
of
the
Gallies
,
hauing
dismist
the
Dutch
men
of
warre
,
that
serued
vnder
me
,
vpon
their
owne
intreatie
to
reuictual
and
trimme
:
and
hauing
imployed
the
rest
of
the
Queenes
ships
vpon
especiall
seruices
,
I
descried
from
my
toppe
mast
heads
,
sixe
lowe
sailes
,
which
some
made
for
Gallies
;
others
affirmed
them
to
be
small
barkes
that
had
strooken
their
top-sailes
,
being
bound
from
Deepe
towards
the
Downes
.
To
which
opinion
(
though
I
inclined
most
)
yet
caused
I
the
Maister
to
waie
and
to
stand
with
them
,
that
I
might
learne
some
newes
of
the
Gallies
,
which
by
your
Lordships
aduertisement
sent
mee
,
I
knew
had
either
past
me
that
night
,
or
were
neere
at
hand
:
vnlesse
the
Sea
had
swallowed
them
vp
in
the
stormes
,
which
had
raged
three
daies
before
.
Hauing
set
my selfe
vnder
saile
,
the
weather
waxt
thicke
,
which
caused
me
to
lascke
some
two
poyntes
from
the
winde
,
towards
the
English
coast
,
least
the
continuance
of
that
darke
weather
might
giue
them
power
to
runne
out
a
head
of
me
.
About
eleuen
of
the
clocke
the
weather
cleared
,
when
I
discouered
them
plainely
to
be
the
Spanish
Gallies
so
long
time
expected
;
at
which
time
with
the
rest
,
I
plied
to
receiue
them
by
crossing
their
forefoote
,
as
they
stoode
alongst
the
Channell
:
which
they
endeauoured
,
till
they
perceiued
that
by
the
continuance
of
that
course
,
they
could
not
escape
the
power
of
my
Ordinance
.
All
this
time
these
two
Fliboates
were
betwixt
them
and
me
:
and
as
the
Slaues
report
that
swam
a
shore
at
Douer
,
they
determined
with
three
Gallies
to
haue
boorded
each
of
those
Ships
,
and
would
haue
executed
that
resolution
,
but
for
the
feare
of
her
Maiesties
great
Galion
(
as
the
tearmed
the
Hope
)
whose
force
that
they
shunned
in
that
kinde
(
considering
the
disaduantage
that
twice
sixe
of
the
best
Gallies
that
euer
I
sawe
,
hath
by
fighting
against
one
Ship
of
her
force
)
I
doe
as
much
commend
,
as
otherwise
I
doe
detest
their
shamefull
working
in
that
full
of
cowardlines
and
weakenes
,
they
rowed
backe
to
the
westward
,
and
spent
the
day
by
running
away
:
in
hope
that
the
darkenes
of
the
night
would
giue
them
libertie
sufficient
to
shunne
the
onely
Ship
they
feared
,
or
that
was
in
deede
in
the
Sea
at
that
time
,
to
giue
them
cause
of
feare
,
I
meane
betwixt
them
and
Dunkerke
or
Newport
.
This
error
onely
of
theirs
bred
their
confusion
,
as
you
may
perceiue
by
the
sequell
.
For
they
no
sooner
began
that
course
of
rowing
backe
againe
;
but
I
instantly
made
signes
for
Captaine
Iones
in
the
Aduantage
of
the
Queenes
,
to
come
vnto
me
:
whom
I
presentlie
directed
to
repaire
to
Callis
roade
;
and
thence
to
send
the
al-arme
vnto
the
States
armie
prepared
before
Sluce
:
and
to
aduise
such
men
of
warre
as
kept
on
the
coast
of
Flanders
,
vpon
any
other
occasion
,
to
stand
off
to
the
Sea
,
to
meete
with
the
Gallies
in
the
night
,
which
should
be
chased
by
me
with
my
lights
in
my
Top-mast
heads
,
and
a
continuall
discharging
of
my
Ordinance
.
Captaine
Iones
hauing
shapte
his
course
according
to
my
directions
:
I
gaue
order
for
hoysing
and
trimming
of
my
Sayles
by
the
winde
,
to
keepe
sight
of
the
Gallies
:
the
two
Fliboates
being
still
a
weather
of
me
,
did
the
like
.
Which
chase
we
held
till
sunne
setting
,
obseruing
this
course
following
all
the
day
.
They
being
a
weather
of
me
,
kept
their
continuall
boords
,
that
the
Gallies
were
alwaies
betwixt
them
.
And
my selfe
being
to
Leeward
,
made
such
short
turnes
,
as
I
kept
all
the
afternoone
in
a
manner
,
euen
in
the
very
eye
of
their
course
,
betwixt
them
and
the
place
of
their
desseigne
:
euer
discharging
my
best
Ordinance
to
warne
the
Answere
of
her
Maiesties
,
that
ridde
by
my
directions
at
the
Downes
,
vpon
important
seruice
as
your
Lordship
knoweth
:
and
the
Flemmings
that
were
there
,
hauing
left
the
Sea
vppon
vnknowne
groundes
to
me
(
yet
sent
from
Portsmouth
,
by
the
most
prouident
direction
of
her
sacred
Maiestie
,
to
awaite
the
comming
of
the
Gallies
,
vpon
aduertisements
that
her
Highnes
receiued
of
their
being
put
to
Sea
)
to
set
saile
,
who
else
had
receiued
no
vnderstanding
of
the
Gallies
:
neither
came
they
within
shot
of
them
,
till
after
night
,
howsoeuer
the
reputation
of
the
seruice
is
wholy
challenged
by
them
.
Hauing
giuen
your
Lordship
an
account
how
this
day
was
thus
spent
by
me
,
from
eyght
of
the
clocke
vntill
the
euening
,
and
with
these
onely
helpes
:
I
beseech
your
Lordship
to
be
pleased
to
vnderstand
,
that
with
the
setting
of
the
Sunne
,
I
could
both
discerne
the
Ships
last
mentioned
vnder
sayle
at
the
Downes
,
and
the
Gallies
to
haue
set
their
sayles
:
directing
their
course
close
aboord
our
shore
,
each
of
them
being
out
of
sight
of
the
other
,
and
my
Dutch
consorts
by
this
time
to
haue
been
left
by
the
Gallies
to
a
sterne
chase
.
When
I
perceiued
them
to
holde
that
course
,
which
would
bring
them
within
shot
of
the
Answere
,
and
the
rest
that
were
in
the
Downes
:
I
held
a
cleane
contrary
course
from
them
,
towards
the
coast
of
France
,
to
confirme
the
secure
passage
they
thought
to
finde
on
our
coast
,
which
I
continued
,
vntill
the
report
of
their
battery
gaue
me
assurance
of
the
Gallies
being
engaged
vnto
tham
.
How
the
batterie
began
,
who
began
it
,
how
it
was
continued
,
how
ended
,
and
to
whom
the
reputation
of
the
seruice
is
due
,
I
leaue
to
be
considered
by
your
Lordship
,
by
the
perusall
of
the
true
discourse
following
.
The
Answere
of
the
Queenes
,
which
Captaine
Bredgate
commanded
,
as
she
rid
more
Southerly
at
the
Downes
then
the
Flemmings
,
so
came
she
first
to
the
Gallies
,
and
bestowed
28.
peeces
of
Ordinance
on
them
before
the
Flemmings
came
in
,
who
at
length
seconded
him
with
very
many
shot
.
During
this
batterie
of
ours
vpon
the
Gallies
,
(
which
I
so
terme
,
because
they
neuer
exchanged
one
shot
)
at
the
very
first
report
of
the
Answers
Ordinance
,
I
directed
the
Master
of
my
ship
to
beare
vp
with
the
South
end
of
the
Goodwin
,
with
which
directions
I
deliuered
my
reasons
publikely
,
as
I
stood
on
the
poope
of
my
ship
,
viz.
That
if
I
stood
directly
in
to
them
,
the
Gallies
,
before
I
could
recouer
the
place
,
would
either
be
driuen
a
shore
or
sunke
,
and
so
would
there
proue
no
neede
of
my
force
;
or
els
by
their
nimble
sayling
they
would
escape
the
ships
,
of
whom
(
once
getting
a
head
)
they
could
receiue
no
impediment
:
for
there
was
no
one
shippe
but
the
Aduantage
in
the
sea
that
could
hinder
them
to
recouer
any
port
in
Flanders
or
the
East
Countries
(
Sluce
onely
excepted
)
vnlesse
I
staied
them
at
that
sand
head
.
Hauing
recouered
as
neere
that
place
as
I
desired
,
I
staied
at
least
a
quarter
of
an
houre
,
before
I
could
either
see
Gallie
,
heare
or
see
any
of
those
Ships
,
their
lights
,
or
report
of
their
Ordinance
,
which
made
me
and
all
my
companie
hold
opinion
that
they
had
outsailed
the
Answere
and
the
rest
of
the
Flemmings
,
and
shunned
sight
of
me
by
going
a seaboord
of
my
ship
:
which
I
so
verely
beleeued
,
as
I
once
directly
determined
to
saile
for
Sluce
,
with
hope
onely
that
the
preparation
which
I
knew
the
States
had
there
,
would
be
able
to
preuent
their
entrance
into
that
place
.
Whilest
I
remained
thus
doubtfull
,
or
rather
hopelesse
to
hinder
their
recouerie
of
Dunkerke
or
Newport
,
in
case
they
had
been
a seaboord
of
me
,
some
of
my
companie
descried
a
single
Gallie
plying
from
the
shore
to
get
a
head
of
my
shippe
.
When
she
approched
within
Caliuer
shot
,
I
discharged
aboue
thirtie
peeces
of
Ordinance
of
my
lower
&
vpper
tyre
at
her
alone
,
my selfe
with
many
other
in
my
ship
saw
when
her
maineyard
was
shot
asunder
,
heard
the
report
of
many
shot
that
hit
her
hull
,
heard
many
their
most
pitifull
outcries
:
which
when
I
perceiued
to
continue
,
and
in
steed
of
making
way
from
me
,
to
neere
me
what
she
could
;
I
forbare
shooting
,
and
commaunded
one
that
spake
the
Portugall
language
,
to
tell
them
that
I
was
contented
to
receiue
them
into
mercie
:
which
I
would
accordingly
haue
performed
,
had
not
the
other
fiue
Gallies
offered
to
stand
out
a
head
of
me
at
that
very
instant
,
and
thereby
would
haue
left
me
as
they
had
done
both
the
first
two
Dutch
shippes
,
and
afterwards
the
Answere
with
the
rest
of
the
Flemmings
,
had
I
omitted
any
small
time
of
executing
the
aduantage
I
had
of
their
being
on
my
broad
side
,
which
as
appeares
was
so
effectually
employed
(
howsoeuer
the
night
wherein
this
seruice
was
performed
,
might
hinder
the
particular
mention
of
their
hurts
)
as
none
can
denie
but
that
God
pleased
thereby
onely
to
work
their
confusion
.
For
since
that
time
none
hath
said
or
can
speake
of
any
one
shot
made
towards
them
:
yet
foure
of
them
are
sunke
and
wracked
,
the
fift
past
doing
the
enemie
seruice
:
and
the
sixt
they
are
forced
to
new
build
at
Dunkerke
,
where
(
if
I
bee
not
much
deceiued
)
she
will
prooue
more
chargeable
then
profitable
,
if
the
fault
rest
not
in
our selues
.
The
disagreement
betweene
the
Dutch
Captaines
themselues
touching
the
stemming
and
sinking
of
the
Gallies
(
whereof
one
challenged
before
your
Lordship
,
and
in
many
other
publike
places
,
to
haue
stemmed
and
sunke
two
himselfe
)
and
the
printed
Pamphlet
containing
the
stemming
and
sinking
of
three
Gallies
,
giueth
the
reputation
thereof
to
three
seuerall
Captaines
,
amongst
whom
no
mention
is
made
of
the
first
:
and
whereas
there
are
but
two
in
all
sunke
;
I
leaue
to
be
reconciled
amongst
themselues
,
and
to
your
Lordship
,
whether
that
the
same
of
right
appertaineth
not
to
her
Maiesties
Ship
the
Hope
,
in
respect
of
the
allegations
before
mentioned
,
euery
particular
whereof
being
to
be
prooued
by
the
oathes
of
my
whole
Companie
,
and
maintained
with
the
hazard
of
my
life
with
that
which
followeth
.
1
As
the
shooting
of
the
single
Gallies
main-yard
asunder
,
my
bestowing
aboue
thirtie
peeces
of
Ordinance
vpon
that
one
Gallie
,
within
lesse
then
Caliuer
shot
.
2
That
they
in
the
Galley
made
many
lamentable
outcries
for
my
receiuing
them
vnto
mercie
.
3
That
I
would
accordinglie
haue
receiued
them
,
but
for
giuing
them
ouer
to
encounter
with
the
other
fiue
Gallies
,
which
els
had
left
me
to
a
sterne
chase
.
To
these
reasons
I
adde
the
assertions
of
the
Viceadmirall
himselfe
,
who
tolde
me
(
whatsoeuer
he
spake
in
other
places
)
that
one
of
the
Gallies
,
which
he
stemmed
,
had
her
maineyard
shot
asunder
before
his
comming
aboord
her
:
by
whom
soeuer
she
was
then
stemmed
,
your
Lordship
may
iudge
,
who
ruin'd
her
,
considering
she
made
no
resistance
,
by
his
owne
report
,
but
by
crying
to
him
for
mercie
.
Touching
the
other
Gallie
stemmed
and
sunke
,
I
haue
alreadie
proued
how
she
(
as
all
the
rest
)
had
got
a
head
the
Answere
of
the
Queenes
not
named
,
and
the
rest
of
the
States-men
of
warre
with
her
,
who
challenge
the
whole
credit
of
this
seruice
:
They
(
as
all
other
Sea-men
)
cannot
denie
,
but
that
the
Gallies
will
outsaile
all
Ships
,
in
such
a
loome
gale
of
winde
and
smooth
sea
,
as
wee
had
that
night
.
The
Gallies
being
then
quicker
of
saile
then
they
,
how
could
they
by
any
meanes
possible
fetch
them
vp
,
but
by
some
impediment
?
Impediment
they
receiued
none
,
but
by
my
Ordinance
:
which
amounted
to
fiftie
great
shot
at
those
fiue
which
came
last
from
the
shoare
,
when
al
the
ships
were
aboue
a
mile
a
sterne
.
Some
notwithstanding
out
of
their
detracting
dispositions
may
perchaunce
say
,
that
the
two
which
were
wrecked
at
Newport
would
haue
perished
by
storme
,
though
they
had
not
been
battered
.
Whereto
though
I
haue
sufficiently
answered
,
first
in
shewing
that
they
might
haue
recouered
any
of
the
places
thereabouts
before
8.
of
the
clock
that
night
but
for
me
;
and
then
the
second
time
before
the
morning
,
had
they
not
been
encountred
by
me
alone
,
at
the
South-sand
head
:
yet
for
further
proofe
that
they
miscaried
by
our
batterie
onely
,
I
say
that
if
one
of
the
Gallies
which
receiued
least
damage
by
our
Ordinance
did
out-liue
Fridaies
storme
,
continuing
till
Saterday
noone
,
being
driuen
among
the
Islands
of
Zealand
to
recouer
Callis
,
then
surely
those
two
(
vnles
they
had
bin
exceedingly
torne
)
would
haue
made
shift
to
haue
recouered
the
Ports
of
Newport
,
Graueling
or
Dunkerke
:
especially
sith
from
the
place
where
I
battered
them
,
they
might
haue
bin
at
the
remotest
of
those
places
about
foure
houres
before
any
storme
began
.
But
such
seemed
their
haste
to
saue
their
liues
,
as
their
thought
ranne
of
a
shoare
,
and
not
of
a
harbour
.
Now
that
I
haue
deliuered
vnto
your
Lordship
the
whole
and
true
discourse
of
this
businesse
,
I
shall
forbeare
to
trouble
your
patience
with
any
further
relation
of
that
night
and
next
daies
spending
my
time
(
though
the
same
in
their
chase
had
like
to
haue
cost
her
Maiestie
her
Ship
,
&
the
liues
of
as
many
as
were
in
her
)
and
conclude
with
admiration
of
their
not
holding
her
Maiesties
ships
,
nor
I
(
her
vnworthiest
seruant
)
and
then
and
yet
by
her
Highnes
grace
and
your
Lordships
fauor
,
Admiral
of
the
forces
in
that
place
,
are
not
once
mentioned
:
especially
sith
the
sixe
Gallies
might
safely
haue
arriued
before
seauen
of
the
clock
that
night
at
any
of
the
Ports
of
Flaunders
to
the
Westward
of
Ostend
.
And
that
the
Dutch
shippes
had
not
come
from
an
anchor
in
the
Downes
,
but
for
the
signes
they
receiued
from
me
.
Then
that
the
force
of
her
Maiesties
Shippe
,
wherein
I
was
,
enforced
them
to
keepe
close
aboord
the
English
shoare
,
whereby
those
Shippes
in
the
Downes
had
power
giuen
them
to
come
to
fight
,
which
fight
was
begun
by
the
Answere
of
the
Queenes
.
And
lastly
,
sith
the
Gallies
escaped
their
battery
,
and
had
gotten
a
head
those
Shippes
,
aboue
a
mile
at
least
,
and
neuer
receiued
any
impediment
after
,
but
onely
by
me
,
who
lingered
them
(
as
you
haue
heard
)
vntill
the
comming
vp
of
those
Ships
that
challenge
to
stemme
them
:
which
being
granted
,
I
cannot
see
how
any
other
credit
can
rightly
be
giuen
them
(
for
that
stemme
I
meane
)
then
to
a
lackey
for
pillaging
of
that
dead
bodie
which
his
master
had
slaine
.
ALthough
this
be
a
very
true
report
of
that
which
was
done
in
this
seruice
,
and
be
a
thing
very
plausible
to
all
that
are
well
affected
to
the
good
successe
of
her
Maiesties
affaires
:
yet
should
it
not
haue
mooued
me
much
who
were
esteemed
to
haue
been
the
chiefe
actor
in
so
good
a
worke
;
or
to
whom
any
augmentation
of
credit
might
grow
thereby
,
were
it
not
that
I
haue
found
some
,
who
(
I
denie
not
)
haue
had
their
part
in
that
seruice
,
haue
been
so
farre
transported
with
the
opinion
of
their
owne
desert
therein
,
as
they
haue
not
let
in
setting
foorth
their
owne
commendation
,
to
cast
a
staine
vpon
other
mens
,
who
had
a
greater
part
in
the
worke
then
themselues
,
as
may
appeare
by
the
report
aboue
recited
.
Which
notwithstanding
should
the
lesse
trouble
me
,
if
the
touch
thereof
did
reach
only
to
my selfe
as
a
priuate
gentleman
:
but
seeing
the
imputation
,
as
it
may
be
gathered
in
a
Pamphlet
printed
,
containing
a
report
of
that
seruice
,
wherein
no
mention
at
al
is
made
either
of
me
,
or
of
any
other
her
Maiesties
seruants
or
Ships
,
or
of
any
of
our
nation
,
doth
derogate
not
onely
from
my selfe
,
but
in
some
sort
from
the
diligence
and
vigilancie
of
al
publike
ministers
of
her
Maiesties
Nauie
:
it
behoued
me
to
haue
so
much
sense
of
mine
and
their
reputations
,
as
by
a
true
report
of
the
thing
(
as
indeed
it
was
done
)
to
redeeme
the
slander
that
in
some
mens
conceits
(
whose
eares
are
quicke
enough
to
receiue
ill
impressions
of
publike
officers
)
might
bee
easily
laid
vpon
vs
.
For
which
onely
cause
is
this
report
published
.
For
how
little
respect
I
had
to
affect
reputation
to
my selfe
by
publishing
any
report
of
that
which
had
passed
in
this
seruice
,
may
appeare
by
this
one
circumstance
:
that
as
soone
as
I
had
presented
my self
to
your
Lordship
,
and
Master
Secretarie
at
the
Court
at
Oatelands
,
and
bin
by
your
Honors
presented
to
her
Maiestie
,
and
made
report
of
that
which
had
passed
:
my
first
suite
was
,
to
be
licensed
to
goe
into
the
countrie
(
as
your
Honor
can
well
witnes
)
whither
immediatly
I
repaired
attending
my
owne
busines
,
and
from
thence
returned
but
very
lately
,
without
any
thought
or
purpose
of
declaiming
my
owne
actions
,
or
of
any
other
thing
,
more
then
of
returning
to
my
charge
,
vntill
comming
to
the
Citie
I
found
euery
mans
mouth
full
of
an
iniurious
report
of
that
seruice
,
and
likewise
a
Pamphlet
printed
by
the
procurement
of
some
who
had
had
to
do
in
that
seruice
,
which
did
confirme
the
misconceit
thereof
.
Wherefore
I
haue
been
constrained
to
doe
that
,
which
otherwise
(
as
I
haue
said
)
is
not
agreeable
to
my
nature
,
that
is
,
to
speake
of
my selfe
.
But
I
shall
be
herein
the
more
to
be
excused
,
because
the
matter
doth
concerne
me
not
onely
as
a
priuate
person
,
but
as
a
publike
seruant
of
the
State
:
towards
which
it
becommeth
me
to
make
cleere
all
actions
wherewith
I
am
put
in
trust
.
For
which
respect
I
must
also
adde
this
much
more
;
that
if
any
man
will
take
exception
to
any
point
of
that
which
I
haue
here
aboue
vpon
so
good
consideration
set
downe
:
I
would
haue
him
vnderstand
that
I
haue
not
lightly
put
foorth
this
report
,
as
a
blast
to
fill
mens
eares
:
but
so
aduisedly
,
that
at
all
times
I
will
be
readie
to
maintaine
and
iustifie
the
truth
therof
,
in
such
sort
as
becommeth
a
Gentleman
professing
Armes
;
and
bearing
the
charge
,
which
by
her
Maiesties
fauour
I
doe
,
to
iustifie
any
thing
,
which
he
taketh
vpon
the
hazard
of
his
reputation
to
report
.
And
in
assurance
thereof
I
haue
to
this
report
set
my
hand
,
and
published
it
in
my
name
.
ROBERT
MANSEL
.