Desires, and go for Italy; since he might return before the opening of the Campaign, if it should be necessary.  And return indeed he did, before the Campaign open’d, and brought along with him one hundred thousand Pounds from Genoa, to the great Comfort and Support of our Troops, which had neither Money nor Credit.  But on his Return, that noble Earl found the Lord Galway had been near as successful against him, as he had been unsuccessful against the Enemy.  Thence was the Earl of Peterborow recall’d to make room for an unfortunate General, who the next Year suffer’d himself to be decoy’d into that fatal Battle of Almanza.

The Earl of Peterborow, on his leaving Valencia, had order’d his Baggage to follow him to the Camp at Guadalaxara; and it arriv’d in our little Camp, so far safe in its way to the greater at Guadalaxara.  I think it consisted of seven loaded Waggons; and General Windham gave Orders for a small Guard to escorte it; under which they proceeded on their Journey:  But about eight Leagues from Cuenca, at a pretty Town call’d Huette, a Party from the Duke of Berwick’s Army, with Boughs in their Hats, the better to appear what they were not (for the Bough in the Hat is the Badge of the English, as white Paper is the Badge of the French) came into the Town, crying all the way, Viva Carlos Tercero, Viva.  With these Acclamations in their Mouths, they advanc’d up to the very Waggons; when attacking the Guards, who had too much deluded themselves with Appearances, they routed ’em, and immediately plunder’d the Waggons of all that was valuable, and then march’d off.

The Noise of this soon reach’d the Ears of the Earl of Peterborow at Guadalaxara.  When leaving my Lord Galways Camp, pursuant to the Resolutions of the Council of War, with a Party only of fourscore of Killigrew’s Dragoons, he met General Windham’s little Army within a League of Huette, the Place where his Baggage had been plunder’d.  The Earl had strong Motives of Suspicion, that the Inhabitants had given Intelligence to the Enemy; and, as is very natural, giving way to the first Dictates of Resentment, he resolv’d to have lay’d the Town in Ashes:  But when he came near it, the Clergy and Magistrates upon their Knees, disavowing the Charge, and asserting their Innocence, prevail’d on the good Nature of that generous Earl, without any great Difficulty, to spare the Town, at least not to burn it.

We march’d however into the Town, and that Night took up our Quarters there; and the Magistrates, under the Dread of our avenging our selves, on their part took Care that we were well supplied.  But when they were made sensible of the Value of the Loss, which the Earl had sustain’d; and that on a moderate Computation it amounted to at least eight thousand Pistoles; they voluntarily presented themselves