At the same time, the Marquis d' Aubeterre coming out of the
sayd Towne, upon the sayd Polonies, routed them, and killed a
great number, and the marquis de Sannebeuf falling with their Fleet,
on the Count d' Oignon, forced him to fetire, the sayd Count being
reported to be hurt, and above six hundred, both of his men,
and of the sayd poloneis killed.
These fights being ended, the sayd Articles being carryed to Bourdeaux,
by Mr. de la Vye, who had stayed some dayes at Blaye with
Marshall du Plessis-Praslin, they were received with great applause,
and the sayd Mr. de la Vye embraced with joy : and then they were
published, and the Te deum sung.
The Duke of Espernon is at present at Cadillac, and will be here
very speedily, as they think: The Duke of Candale his Son, took
his bed, as soone as he heard the newes of that ill successe, so much
the more sunest for him, that the sayd Duke his Father hath ingaged
himselfe in that brave Warr for about two or three Millions of
his owne.
A Jerfey man being arrived here some three dayes since, hath assured
a Friend of mine, that he crossed the Sea between Jersey and
France, with two men of Thoulon, who were come to let the Proclaimed
King of Scotland understand the rich prize made of the Ship,
the Persia of London, at whose fight they were present, acknowledging
that the French were ready to demand quarter from the
Captaine of the sayd Ship, had not his Marriners forsook him.
By Letters from St. Malo, of the 8 instant, 29 December.
I heare that the feare they have at Jersey of that shipping, and that
the Ships ready in the Thames to goe against Prince Rupert, and into
the Mediterranean Sea, might happen to fall on them, is such,
that their Counsells doe tend to the speedy removing of the sayd
Proclaimed King, into France.
The same Letter sayth, that the day before, a vessell was arrived
there from Galway to the Sayd St. Malo, full of severall sick folke,
that Countrey being infested with the Plague; for which reason,
they were not suffered to Land, and that the Jersey Court doth hope
much upon ten Ships the King of Denmark is to joyne (say they)
with Prince Rupert Forces, who hath been allowed two Ports in
the Straights, to have his prizes adjudged there.
The Laird Liberton hath written from Jersey, the 26 16 of the last
Moneth, to a Friend of his here, that he hoped to be here very