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lucianusSaturday 25. December
This day before dawn we rose and reentered the trenches where we had been before and St. John his men so very happy to come in from there where they had watched all the night through and it snowing some of the time and at about 11 of the clock came the enemy who would have their trenches again and with great spite they fell upon us and killed two of my troop with sword and halberd and did drive us out and with much hagabush fire did chase us back to our own trenches and Baskerville seeing our distress commanded his company to second us and so we did sally out again but the rest of our fellows followed us not and so with a number of losses fell we back again in a short time being not so strong to hold out against the enemy but in retreating I regret that we did leave the corpses of several of our men behind; so watching in our own trenches until nightfall when my Lord and some of his gentlemen came for their watch and we very weary and cold finally back to our quarter and some supper and our beds.
Coingsby attests to the loss of the enemy trenches, Sir Thomas Baskerville's sally and their loss again.
Coningsby, Thomas, Jornall of Cheife Thinges Happened in Our Jorney from Deape the 13. of Auguste, Untyll, MS.- Harl. 288. f. 253279, p. 65. Camden Miscellany by Camden Society (Great Britain), Royal Historical Society (Great Britain), published by Camden Society, 1847 Item notes: v.1 (1847)
This day before dawn we rose and reentered the trenches where we had been before and St. John his men so very happy to come in from there where they had watched all the night through and it snowing some of the time and at about 11 of the clock came the enemy who would have their trenches again and with great spite they fell upon us and killed two of my troop with sword and halberd and did drive us out and with much hagabush fire did chase us back to our own trenches and Baskerville seeing our distress commanded his company to second us and so we did sally out again but the rest of our fellows followed us not and so with a number of losses fell we back again in a short time being not so strong to hold out against the enemy but in retreating I regret that we did leave the corpses of several of our men behind; so watching in our own trenches until nightfall when my Lord and some of his gentlemen came for their watch and we very weary and cold finally back to our quarter and some supper and our beds.
Coingsby attests to the loss of the enemy trenches, Sir Thomas Baskerville's sally and their loss again.
Coningsby, Thomas, Jornall of Cheife Thinges Happened in Our Jorney from Deape the 13. of Auguste, Untyll, MS.- Harl. 288. f. 253279, p. 65. Camden Miscellany by Camden Society (Great Britain), Royal Historical Society (Great Britain), published by Camden Society, 1847 Item notes: v.1 (1847)
