It was gained at last by the signal valour of Edward Stanley, lieutenant to Sir William.

That officer, at the commencement of an assault upon a not very practicable breach, sprang at the long pike of a Spanish soldier, who was endeavoring to thrust him from the wall, and seized it with both hands.

The Spaniard struggled to maintain his hold of the weapon, Stanley to wrest it from his grasp.

A dozen other soldiers broke their pikes upon his cuirass or shot at him with their muskets.

Conspicuous by his dress, being all in yellow but his corslet, he was in full sight of Leicester and of fire thousand men.