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In fhort time after, my Lord coming to his army at Arques, he received from the King his refolution to befeidge Roan, and Lord was not flack to fit himself and his troops at the time appointed. The whole towne was foon roundly befeiged before eleven of the clocke the first day. But (13) Villiers, Governour of Roan, did that day fhew himselfe to be a brave foldier, and a great Commander, He brought out his troops both of horse and foote, and there was not a quarter in the whole army but what was bravely affaulted and fought with all by them that day. They did fo furioufly affault Montmorancie's quarter, that, had not my Lord fent his horfe to relieve him, he had been driven out of his quarter with great difhonour. Towards three in the afternoon, they had fhowne their worth and valour in all other places. They came up towards my Lord's quarters. We were ready to entertain them, and wee held fkirmish at the leaft two hours, and, after fome killed and hurt on both fides, they fairly retired into the towne, and we to our lodg. ing; and fo ended that day's fport.

Diverfe days after, they made falleys out of the towne, and gave attempts to diverfe quarters. We lay long there, and to little purpose; for though the walles were of no force to endure a battery, and my Lord had offered the King that hee and his troopes fhould be the first to enter, if he would make a breach, it would not be hearkened unto; (14) old Byron thinking it better to make them come to a compofition for want of victuals, then to hazard the wealth of the towne to the spoile of the fouldiers, if it fhould be won by affault.

All our attempts were against St. Kathetine's, and one night we had hope to winne it by fcalado; but, fetting up the ladders, found them two yards too fhort; fo we were forced to retire with fhame enough, the fort playing upon us coming on and off; but there was little hurt done, by reafon of the darknesse of the night.

One day, my Lord and his best friends had been all cut in pieces, had not the valour of Sir Ferdinando George prevented it; for, he having the charge of the trenches that day, and a corps de guard of English fouldiers by him, it was God's will, that he, looking through a loope hole, efpied 25 or 30 armed men fallying out of the fort, who meant to come upon us on a fodaine by a

by-way; but he, on a fodaine, command ing a dozen or fourteen of his beft fouldiers to follow him, in his doublet and hofe, and his rapier by his fide, leapt over the trenches, the reft bravely following him. They, fee. ing this defperate refolution, retired into the fort with all speed; and he came bravely off, with all his followers, though many fhott were made at them.

Thus we spent from Michaelmaffe to almost Christmaffe, when the Duke of Parma came with an army to relieve the towne, and did effect it. The winter coming on, my Lord left his army with Sir Roger Williams and Sir Thomas Bakerwile, and, taking his leave of the King, came for England. I retourned with him; he was very welcome to the Queene, and all that attended him, for his fake. Thus ended our French warrs.

I spent two winters and a fummer in Court after this; and the Queene gave mee out of the Exchequer 1000 pounds, to pay my debts, which gave mee great reliefe. Prefently after this, my old Lord Scroope died at Carleil, and the Queene gave the Weft Wardenrie to his fonne, that had married my fifter. Hee defired mee to be his Deputy; and I accepted of his noble offer, and betooke myself to the country with him. We had a ftirring world, and a few days paffed over my head but I was on horfeback, either to prevent mischiefe, or to take malefactours, and to bring the border in better quiet than it had been in times palt.

Not long after this, I married a (15) Gentlewoman, more for her worth than her wealth; for her estate was but 500 pounds a yeare jointure, and the bad betweene five and fix hundred pounds in her purfe. Neither did the marry mee for any great wealth; for I had, in all the world, but one hundred pounds a yeare penfion out of the Exchequer, and that was but during pleasure, and I was neere a thousand pounds in debt; befides, the Queene was mightily offended with me for marrying, and most of my best friends; only my father was no ways difpleafed at it, which

gave me great content.

My brother, Sir John Cary, then Marfhall of Berwick, was fent to by the King of Scottes, to meet his Majestie at the bound rode at a day appointed; for that he had a matter of great importance to ac quaint his fifter, the Queene of England, withall, but would not truft any with it,

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unlefs my father, or fome of his children. My brother fent notice to my father of the King's defire. My father fhewed the letter to the Queene: She was not willing that my brother fhould fir; but, knowing (though she would not know) that I was in Court, by reafon of the great preparation on her coronation day for the course of the field and tournament, fhe faid, I heare your fine fonne, that has lately married fo worthily, is hereabouts; fend him if you will to know the King's pleasure. My father answered, hee knew I would be glad o obey her commaundes. No (faid fhe) do you bid him go, for I have nothing to do with him. My father told me what ad paffed; but, I thinking it hard to be ent, and not to fee her, or to go without mer licenfe, the Secretary was ordered to nake a safe conduct, and the Queene figned t. Upon these terms I parted; and, being ome to Edenborough, I defired the King of Scottes to write his mind to her. He iked the motion; and, accordingly, I had ay difpatch within foure days (16).

I made all the hafte I could to Court, nd arrived on St. Steven's day in the afernoone. My father went to let the Queene now that I was retourned. She willed im to take my meffage or letters, but I efired him to excufe me; for that which I ad to fay, either by word or by writing, I uft deliver myfelfe. With much adoe I as called for in; and I was left alone with er. Our first encounter was ftormy and rrible, which I passed over with filence. fter the had spoken her pleasure of mee nd my wife, I told her, that Shee herfelf as the fault of my marriage, and that, if e had but graced mee with the least of r favours, I had never left her nor her ourt; and, feeing fhe was the chief caufe my misfortune, I would never off my ees till I had kiffed her hand, and obined my pardon.' She was not difpleafed my excufe, and before wee parted wee ew good friends. I kissed her hand, and me forth to the prefence, and was in the urt as I ever was before.

After I had stayed till almoft Shrovetide, ook leave of her Majeftie, and made ight for Carleil, where I still bufied mywith the affairs of the borders, till a rence arifing betweene mee and my Scroope's Officers about border-cauand my Lord being more favourable their fides than mine, I refolved not to nue his Deputy any longer. Here

upon I repaired again to Court; and, not long after, Sir John Selby, who was Deputy Warden for my father of the East March, dying, the Queene was pleased to grant me the reverfion of the Captaineship of Norham cattle, after my father's death, who himselfe had given me the poffeffion of it in his life time.

I then beganne to thinke of the charge I had taken upon me; and, when I had got to the Eaft March, tooke fo fharp a course with the Scotch thieves that were found with a bloody hand, that in a fhort time the country had more quiet. There was a favourite of Sir (17) Robert Car's, my oppofite Warden, a great theife, called Giordie Bourne. This gallant, with fome of his affociates, were driving of cattle before them from the Eaft March. I had that night fome of the garrison abroad. Meeting with this Giordie and his fellowes, they fett upon them, and with a shott killed Giordie's uncle, and hee himfelfe, bravely refifting till he was fore hurt in the head, was taken, and the next morning, a Jury being called, was found guilty of March-treafon. But fo powerfull and awfull was this Sir Robert Car, and his favourites, as there was not a Gentleman in all the Eaft March that durft offend them. Fearing that I would cause him to be executed that afternoone, they came flocking to me, humbly entreating that I would spare his life till the next day, and plainly telling me, that, if I fhould execute him before I had heard from Sir Robert Car, they must be forced to quitt their houfes, and fly the country; for his fury would be fuch, as he would ufe all his power and strength to the utter destruction of the Eaft March. They were fo earnest, that I gaye them my word hee fhould not dye that day. There was poft upon poft to Sir Robert Car, to advertife him in what danger Giordie Bourne was, and that he would fend with all speede to let me know the good conditions for the safety of his life. When all things were quiet, and the watch fett at night, I tooke one of my mens liveryes, and put it about mee, and tooke two other of my fervants with me in their liveryes, and we three, as the Warden's men, were let into Bourne's chamber. Wee fate down by him, and told him that we were defireous to fee him, because wee heard hee was ftout and valiant, and that wee were forry our mafter could not be moved to fave his life. He of himfelfe told us, that he had layne with above

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forty mens wives, what in England, what in Scotland; and that he had killed feyen Englishmen with his owne hands, cruelly murthering them: That he had spent his whole time in whooring, drinking, ftealing, and taking deep revenge for flight offences; and that he had lived long enough, and was very penitent for fo many villanies. After I had heard his own confeffion, I was refolved no conditions fhould fave his life,

and fo touke order for his execution t next morning, which accordingly was pe formed. Sir Robert Car made many vow of cruell revenge; but, for all his fury, never drew drop of blood in all my Mard neither durft his theeves trouble it w much stealing, for fear of hanging, if th were taken.

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UEBEC, the capital of all Canada, and an epifcopal fee, is fituated on the confluence of the rivers of St. Laurence and St Charles, or the Little River, and on the north fide of the former, and about 140 leagues from the fea. The haven is large, and able to contain at least an hundred veffels of the line; and the great river, on which it ftands, though about four leagues wide, doth here fhrink itself at once to the breadth of a fingle mile, and it is on that account it is called Quebec, which, in the Algonkine tongue, fignifies a fhrinking, or growing narrower; which is the moft natural etymology we have met with yet of that name. The fift thing that falutes the eye, in failing up to the town, is a cafcade, called by the French the Leap of Montmorency, at the entrance of the little channel of the ifle of Orleans, and is about forty feet high, and thirty broad, though only caused by the fall of an inconfiderable brook. A little above is the city, fituated on the narroweft part of the river; but, between that and the ifle of Orleans, is a fpacious bafon, a full league long every way, into which the river of St. Charles empties itself, and flows down from the north-weft; fo that it ftands, between the mouth of that river and Cape Diamant, on that of St. Laurence. The haven ftands facing the town, and is fafe and commodious, and about twenty-five fathoms deep. When the town was built in 1608, the tide came quite up to it; but fince that time the river bath funk fo far, as to leave a dry large fpot, on which was built the lower town, at the foot of a rocky mountain, about eight fathoms high.

This lower town is ftrong and well built, thongh rather top confined; the houfes

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are of fquare ftone, and moftly inhabit by Merchants. It is defended by a pla form in the middle, which, being level wi the river, commands the fhips that go a come. The way from this lower to t higher town is fteep, though winding, that carts and coaches cannot go up witho difficulty. The upper town is alfo ve well built, and abounds with noble edifice fuch as churches, palaces, especially th of the Bishop; the Courts of judicatur the house of the Knights Hofpitallers, noble building of fquare ftone, adorned wi two ftately pavilions, and faid to have 40,000 livres, though far from being nifhed; feveral monafteries, nunner chapels, as the Urfulines and Recollet co vents, which, with their churches, wot grace our fineft cities; the Jefuits colle and church, whofe infide is very magn cent: Both are advantageously fituated, their garden is large and well planted, at the end of it is a pleafant little cop But the nobleft of all is the palace, wh fits the Grand Council of the colony, ated in 1639. This palace is alfo the dence of the Governor, and the repofit of all the royal ftores. The cathedra rather a clumfy building; and its ard tecture, choir, painting, and carving, all in a mean ftile. The only thing able is its tower, which is large, high, well built; and fo advantageously fitua as to be feen at a great diftance. The joining feminary, or cloifters, were defig with a better tafte; but, befides their b never finished, they were fo often b down, particularly in 1703 and 1705, being rebuilt, that they have not fince perly recovered. There is room only the twelve Prebends belonging to the ca