A letter from Exon to his friend, Mr. T. Wills, in London, concerning the landing of the French July 26 ; with the particulars of the burning the town of Tingmouth, &c. Lamplugh, Thomas, 1615-1691. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A97060 of text R186094 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing W58C). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 3 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 A97060 Wing W58C ESTC R186094 43077743 ocm 43077743 151858 2240917505

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A97060) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 151858) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English Books, 1641-1700 ; 2279:13) A letter from Exon to his friend, Mr. T. Wills, in London, concerning the landing of the French July 26 ; with the particulars of the burning the town of Tingmouth, &c. Lamplugh, Thomas, 1615-1691. Wills, T. 1 sheet ([1] p.) Printed by H. Hills, London, : 1690. Reproduction of original in: Newberry Library, Chicago, Illinois. eng Grand Alliance, War of the, 1689-1697 -- Campaigns -- England. Broadsides -- London (England) -- 17th century. eebo A letter from Exon to his friend, Mr. T. Wills, in London, concerning the landing of the French, July 26; with the particulars of the burning of the t J. W 1690 1 569 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2007-06 Assigned for keying and markup 2007-06 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2007-07 Sampled and proofread 2007-07 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
A LETTER FROM EXON to his Friend , Mr. T Wills , in London , concerning the Landing of the French , July 26 ; with the particulars of the Burning the Town of Tingmouth , &c. Loving Kinsman ,

MY Service in the Camp , against the French Fleet , hinder'd me from Writing the last Post . The Enemy now lie as they did when I wrote to you last ; and on Saturday Morning , about Five , the 15 Gallies , and one Man of War , with the Long-boats , made up to Tingmouth , and Rang a Peal of Canons about half an hour long ; afterwards landed about 1000 Men , who entred the Town and burnt about 30 Houses : went into the Church , broke the Communion-Table in pieces , the Pulpet and Desk ; tore the Common-Prayer Book in pieces , and did some injury to the Font. I observ'd the Proclamation for the Fast against a Pillar , which had but one cut with a Sword . There were in the Harbour about Eight Ships and Barks which they also burned , not sparing the Passage-Boat , nor the Village which lies the Yonder side the Passage . They also made an Incursion about a Mile above the Town , and burnt several Country Houses . About three Hours before they Landed , Coll. Bampfield was in the Town with his Regiment , but they pretending to Land about Brixham , he was Commanded there ; and the Town left to the Guard of the Mobile , and a Mob . Troop of Horse , Commanded by the young Heyden , who all scoured upon the first Firing of the Enemy , and left two pieces of half Canon planted upon the Shore , which the Enemy took with them . When they landed , there was so great a Mist , that one could not discern the other : About Nine a Clock it broke up , and the Enemy retir'd to their Boats , when I enter'd the Town , in the Head of 200 of the Posse Com. where we found the Town all in Flames and Ruine , but no one stay'd to be killed ; all left their Houses , except an old Woman , of Eighty Years , who was taken in the Bed , and in danger of Ravishment ; but pleading her Age , escaped . She says , about Twenty enter'd her Chamber , all English ; they made bold with her Coffers , but assured her , she need not be afraid of burning her House ; and told her , If the rest had stay'd , they might have saved theirs . I send you some of their Match , which I took burning in a House ; and were it not for the charge of Postage , would send you a Bullet of 30 l. weight , which I took up in the Ruins of a Chimney . I am just mounting again ( having seen your Mare , who will be serviceable against you come ) and therefore must bid you adieu , wishing us Victory over the Enemy , and a happy meeting ,

Yours J. W. Exon , July 28. 1690.

LONDON , Printed by H. Hills . 1690.