THE Military Memoirs
OF
Capt. George Carleton
FROM THE
DUTCH WAR, 1672.
In which he Serv'd, to the
Conclusion of the Peace at
UTRECHT, 1713.
Illustrating
Some of the most Remarkable TRANSACTIONS, both by Sea
and Land, during the Reigns of King Charles and King
James II. hitherto unobserved by all the Writers of those
times.
Together with
An exact Series of the War in Spain; and a particular Description
of the several Places of the Author's Residence in
many Cities, Towns, and Countries; their Customs,
Manners, &c. Also Observations on the Genius of the
Spaniards (among whom he continued some Years a
Prisoner) their Monasteries and Nunneries (especially that
fine one at Montserat) and on their publick Diversions;
more particularly their famous BULL-FEASTS.
LONDON, Printed for E. SYMON, over against the Royal
Exchange, Cornhill, MDCCXXVIII.
TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
Spencer Lord Wilmington,
Knight of the Bath, and one of his Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council.
'Twas my fortune, my Lord, in my juvenile Years, Musas cum Marte commutare, and truly I have Reason to blush, when I consider the small Advantage I have reap'd from that Change. But lest it should be imputed to my Want of Merit, I have wrote these Memoirs, and leave the World to judge of my Deserts. They are not set forth by any fictitious Stories, nor imbelished with rhetorical Flourishes; plain Truth is certainly most becoming the Character of an old Soldier. Yet let them be never so meritorious, if not protected by some noble Patron, some Persons may think them to be of no Value.