Works of the Camden Society, Volumes 60 à 61

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Camden Society, 1900 - 180 pages
 

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Page xix - I do commend, in the midst of others' miscarriages, your constancy and faithfulness to your trust in every 'situation'* where you are, and 'your' taking care of a "company of poor sheep left by their shepherd:"** and be assured that, as that which you have done hath been good in itself, and becoming an honest man, so it hath a very good savour here with all good Christians and all true Englishmen...
Page vii - A Brief and Perfect Journal of the late Proceedings and Success of the English Army in the West Indies, continued until June the 24th, 1655.
Page 110 - ... Place, but may be at liberty to proceed vpon the Designe, either without any addition of Forces in the Islands and Plantations aforesaid, or with a les or greater addition, as you shal find the nature of the seruice to require ; And you haue also Power and 1 British Museum, Add.
Page xxvi - Our planters," wrote Venables after the catastrophe had occurred, " we found most fearful, being only bold to do mischief, not to be commanded as soldiers, nor to be kept in any civil order, being the most profane, debauched persons that we ever saw, scorners of religion ; and, indeed, men kept so loose as not to be kept under discipline, and so cowardly as not to be made to fight.
Page 30 - Our planters we found most fearful, being only bold to do mischief, not to be commanded as Souldiers, nor to be kept in any civil order; being the most prophane debanch'd persons that we ever saw, scorners of Religion, and indeed men kept so loose as not to be kept under discipline, and so cowardly as not to be made to fight...
Page xxxvii - Whoever comes to these parts,' wrote General Venables in May 1655, ' must bring leather bottles, which are more needful here than knapsacks in Ireland.' In another letter he asks for 'blackjacks', as these bottles were called, without which 'not one man can march in these torrid regions, where water is precious and scant'.3 What has been said of the method in which the army was clothed and equipped applies to the cavalry as well as the infantry, but...
Page 100 - Indies, and for allowing some of his soldiers to be accompanied by their wives, he answered that anybody who had served in the Irish wars knew ' the necessity of having that sex with an army to attend upon and help the sick and wounded, which men are unfit for '.
Page 107 - God to make us instrumental! in any measure to deliver them, and uppon this occasion to make way for the bringing in the light of the Gospell and power of true Religion and Godliness into those parts, Wee shall esteeme it the best and most Glorious part of any Successe or Acquisition it shall please God to blesse us with.
Page xiv - Him in it, and to be able to overcome everything in a man's own heart that may anyways lie as an impediment in the way, that may hinder the bringing of it to its perfection. And in this I have full assurance of you...
Page xxxvi - The disequality betwixt the English pikes and Spanish lances was such, that the one being over long, and top-heavy, could not be managed with that dexterity, and to so good a purpose (especially in narrow ways and woods) as the lance, which is about three quarters of that length ; neither are the English half-pikes of sufficient length to reach these lances. The Spaniards also (by often use and practice) become more expert...

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