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1706/05/30

Narcissus Luttrell (1857). A brief historical relation of state affairs from September 1678 to April 1714, vol vi. Oxford: OUP.  [more]
This morning captain Delavall came expresse from the earl of Peterborough, with a letter dated the 12th, N. S., which says, sir George Bing joined sir John Leak the 1st, and commodore Walker the 3d, making 50 sail of men of war in the line of battle; that they arrived the 8th at Barcelona, and put their land forces into it, count Tholouze being gone off the day before, notwithstanding which count Thesse carried on the seige by land : he made a breach, and gave out he designed to storm the storm (town?); but on the 12th, at 1 in the morning, he retired towards their own frontiers, pursued by tho Miquelets, leaving behind 175 brasse cannon, 30 mortars, 3000 barrels of powder, 10,000 sacks of meal, vast quantities of shott, and most of their baggage; and the lord Peterborough is preparing to improve this good successe; for which news the Tower guns were discharged.
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