In Which Attempt The Vice-Admiral Had The Rudder Of His Skiff Strucken Through With A Saker Shot, And A Little Or No Harm Received Elsewhere.

The troops being now in their march, half-a-mile behither the town or less, the ground we were

On grew to be strait, and not above fifty paces over, having the main sea on the one side of it and the harbour- water or inner sea (as you may term it) on the other side, which in the plot is plainly shewed. This strait was fortified clean over with a stone wall and a ditch without it, the said wall being as orderly built, with flanking in every part, as can be set down. There was only so much of this strait unwalled as might serve for the issuing of the horsemen or the passing of carriage in time of need. But this unwalled part was not without a very good /barricado/ of wine-butts or pipes, filled with earth, full and thick as they might stand on end one by another, some part of them standing even within the main sea. This place of strength was furnished with six great pieces, demiculverins and sakers, which shot directly in front upon us as we approached. Now without this wall, upon the inner side of the strait, they had brought likewise two great galleys with their prows to the shore, having planted in them eleven pieces of ordnance, which did beat all cross the strait, and flanked our coming on.

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