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lucianusTuesday 16. November
This morning just after breakfast I with Sir R. W. and Sir Edmund Yorke and sundry other gentlemen went upon the river to view the best places for setting chains and other such obstacles for blocking the passage of goods and he has great plans and would, if he had his way and as many pioneers as he might, entrench the town entirely so that none would be able to pass out and were he quite to have his way, so saith he, he would reroute the river to deny the town totally its liveihood; we were returned to camp round about dinner and at that time the French were in a great skirmish with some 200 of the garrison their horse and so we caused our men to bring us our supper on the hill that we might watch and it maketh a fine show and later we sat and drank of tobacco and I did say and so did others agreethat the French for all their fine arms and menouvers and great speeches were fain to trying fight as do we English for if it were we there on that field the garrison horse would have been much more bloodied than they were; Coningsby did tell me of his being brought two youths of the town who had stolen out in the fight and run to our camp and he did discover of them that the townsmen like not Villiers and the at garrison has not over 1800 foot and horse and that they are hard pressed to guard the whole circuit of the walls; M. du Lac came in the evening and we and several others played at cards until not too late.
Sir Edmund Yorke was a military engineer who appears on the scene in the middle of November with a lot of big ideas about besieging the town, few of which were adopted. Coningsby mentions him as well as the skirmish and the escaped boys.
Coningsby, Thomas, Jornall of Cheife Thinges Happened in Our Jorney from Deape the 13. of Auguste, Untyll, MS.- Harl. 288. f. 253279, p. 43-44. Camden Miscellany by Camden Society (Great Britain), Royal Historical Society (Great Britain), published by Camden Society, 1847 Item notes: v.1 (1847)
This morning just after breakfast I with Sir R. W. and Sir Edmund Yorke and sundry other gentlemen went upon the river to view the best places for setting chains and other such obstacles for blocking the passage of goods and he has great plans and would, if he had his way and as many pioneers as he might, entrench the town entirely so that none would be able to pass out and were he quite to have his way, so saith he, he would reroute the river to deny the town totally its liveihood; we were returned to camp round about dinner and at that time the French were in a great skirmish with some 200 of the garrison their horse and so we caused our men to bring us our supper on the hill that we might watch and it maketh a fine show and later we sat and drank of tobacco and I did say and so did others agreethat the French for all their fine arms and menouvers and great speeches were fain to trying fight as do we English for if it were we there on that field the garrison horse would have been much more bloodied than they were; Coningsby did tell me of his being brought two youths of the town who had stolen out in the fight and run to our camp and he did discover of them that the townsmen like not Villiers and the at garrison has not over 1800 foot and horse and that they are hard pressed to guard the whole circuit of the walls; M. du Lac came in the evening and we and several others played at cards until not too late.
Sir Edmund Yorke was a military engineer who appears on the scene in the middle of November with a lot of big ideas about besieging the town, few of which were adopted. Coningsby mentions him as well as the skirmish and the escaped boys.
Coningsby, Thomas, Jornall of Cheife Thinges Happened in Our Jorney from Deape the 13. of Auguste, Untyll, MS.- Harl. 288. f. 253279, p. 43-44. Camden Miscellany by Camden Society (Great Britain), Royal Historical Society (Great Britain), published by Camden Society, 1847 Item notes: v.1 (1847)
