Hollander had Fortified it too ſtrong with Ordnance, and after one houres Fight, the Sconce forced his Excellency and the Governour of Antwerpe to leave their intended enterprize, and afterwards the whole Body meeting, they marched towards Breda. The Governor of Breda having intelligence of his Excellencies comming towards the Towne, forthwith commanded the Drummes to beate up, thereby proclayming and charging the Burgers and Souldiers that were in the Towne, to be in a readineſſe againſt his Excellencies comming, which was neere upon Five thouſand Burgers and Souldiers, beſides Five hundred of Horſe.
Then his Excellencies Army marching neere Breda was intercepted, and his paſſage ſtop't, and almoſt a whole day kept them in fight with Musketiers, onely at length there was a freſh ſupply of the Hollanders neere upon ten thouſand more which came from the Buſſe, and they placed themſelves in the reare of his Excellencies Army between Macklin and Bridges, and the Breda Burgers and Souldiers in the Front, where on the morning as ſoone as the day appeared, they had a great skirmiſh, and tooke divers great Perſons priſoners, whereof the Governour of Caſtile was one, and ſlew neere upon ſix thousand of Horſe and Foote, and forced the reſt to flye, and for their more nimbleneſſe of body they throwed downe their Armes, and the Hollanders following them ſo cloſe, that they drived his Excellency and his Army al-
