the Town, we came to another within shot of them in eight
fathoms water, as soon as the Centurion was at Anchor, the
Captain Commanded me to goe on board of the nearest,
but he bid me that I should not enter till he struck his ensign.
Presently after I was gone from the ship, the Fairfax fired
a gun at this man of war, for to make her strike, but she in
defiance fired a great gun to windward and gave a small shot;
then the Captain called us on board again, and each of our
ships with our sterne guns played upon them; they lying with
their sterns to us, about an hour after that we begun to fire,
the Centurion shot down one of their men of Wars misen
shrouds, and some half an hour after he shot his main yard
down, whereupon the Enemie deserted the ship.
As soon as I was put off from our ship for to goe on board
this man of Warr, the other blew up, notwithstanding that
werowed to her that remained, but when we were just entering
some powder blew up, and she blased in two or three places,
and presently after blew up, we rowed then to the remainder
of the other blown up ship, when we got thither, we saw a sad
sp[unr]ctacle, severall men drowned and some in the blowing upward
dismembred, we took up the Captain with severall others
and then I rowed to a fly Boat which was a prise of these men
of War, and find her, one of our men was shot in the back
as we went but none was hurt as we came back: at night
each of our Boats went for to fire an other prise of theirs which
lay in a creek, but they could not accomplish it by reason
of the small shot which lay on both sides of the Creek.
Then they went for to see if they could get off a boat which
had six and thirty Guns of their men of War on board her,
but before we came to her she was sunk. At three of the Clock
in the morning we weighed; about two miles off the Town
there is a Monastery the which we fired severall guns at; by
four of the Clock in the afternoon, we were within halfe a
mile of the Castle, but they could not bring again to bare
upon us, till we had stood off a pretty while, then they fired
several guns at us, wee not sieing a gun at them again, notwithstanding