6 I stepped in to part two Souldiers that were
fighting at Numigen; one of the Souldiers made a
Thrust which cut the loop of my Girdle, passed
through it, and but for the stiffning, had gone into
the mortall place of my Belly.
7 At the Isle of Rhè I was shot through and
through the Crown of my Hat, in the middle part
of my Hat, it being pulled fast on my head; the
Bullet making a noise with the resistance it found;
and yet it pleased my good God, that onely some
small part of my hair was taken off, without any
other harm; to the wonder of my Company, who
were then present.
8 Before divers at Portsmouth, I was on a sudden
run at by a Drunken man with a broad Sword, my
Face being from him; he ran at me so violently,
the Sword bended to the very Hilt, which the
standers by judged to have been through my Body:
but it pleased God so to order it, that the point of
the sword met with a Hook of my Breeches, and
so most miraculously I escaped.
9 At the siege of the Busse, there came a Cannon-shot
through the Breast of a Work in which I
was; it hit me on the Arm, making it onely discoloured.
These particulars of mercy, besides many and
sundry other Preservations from visible dangers (as
before besieged places in severall Storms, and many
infected Places when Souldiers perished on all