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CONTAINING

FOUR LETTERS OF LORD WENTWORTH, AFTERWARDS EARL OF STRAFFORD, WITH A POEM ON HIS ILLNESS.

MEMOIR BY MADAME DE MOTTEVILLE ON THE LIFE OF HEN- RIETTA MARIA.

PAPERS RELATING TO THE DELINQUENCY OF LORD SAVILE, 1642-1646.

A SECRET NEGOCIATION WITH CHARLES THE FIRST, 1643-1644.

A LETTER FROM THE EARL OF MANCHESTER ON THE CONDUCT OF CROMWELL.

LETTERS ADDRESSED TO THE EARL OF LAUDERDALE. ORIGINAL LETTERS OF THE DUKE OF MONMOUTH. CORRESPONDENCE OF THE FAMILY OF HADDOCK 1657-1719.

LETTERS OF RICHARD THOMPSON TO HENRY THOMPSON, OF ESCRICK, CO. YORK.

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M.DCCC.LXXXIII.

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CORRESPONDENCE

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THE FAMILY OF HADDOCK

1657—1719

EDITED BY

EDWARD MAUNDE THOMPSON

PRINTED FOR THE CAMDEN SOCIETY

M.DCCC.LXXXI.

PKEFACE.

Settled from remote times in the little town of Leigh, in Essex, at the mouth of the Thames, the family of Haddock, we may be sure, took early to the sea, as was befitting their name. There are traces of Haddocks of Leigh to be found as far back as Edward the Third's days; but we need not search for earlier generations than those which sprang from Richard Haddock, a captain in the Parliamentary Navy. That the family had followed the sea from father to son in bygone times, and had so established a tradition to be observed by their descendants, might be argued from the regu- larity with which the Haddocks of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries served in the Navy for upwards of a hundred years. This regularity is only to be equalled by that with which they named their children Richard, to the perpetual confusion of their bio- graphers.

Captain Richard Haddock, to whom reference has been made above, served under the Commonwealth. In 1642 we find him in command of the ship Victory, and in 1652 he received a reward of £40 for good service. He died in 1660 at the age of 79. His

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eldest son William, also a Parliamentary captain, commanded the ship America in 1650, and the Hannibal in 1653. He survived his father only seven years, dying in 1667, aged 60. Captain Eichard Haddock had another son, Eichard, who was probably a good deal younger than his brother. He served with distinction in the Dutch war in 1673 ;* and was in all probability the father of William Haddock whom the family papers show to have been a lieutenant in the Cornwall in 1696-1697, and who commanded a ship in the action off Cape Passaro in 1718 (p. 54) and died in 1726.

William Haddock, the Parliamentary captain, had at least four sons: Eichard, Andrew, Joseph, and William. Eichard will be noticed presently. Andrew is mentioned in the first letter of this Correspondence. William was at sea with his brother Eichard in 1657 and 1658. Joseph was a lieutenant in the Lion in 1672, and in the Eoyal Charles in 1673, and served in the Dutch war in those years ; and afterwards held a command in the East Indies, whence he wrote an interesting letter here printed (p. 37). Eichard Haddock was born about the year 1629, and must have entered the service at an early age ; for in 1657, when the present Correspond- ence begins, he was already a captain in command of the Dragon frigate, which formed part of the squadron cruising off Dunkirk. In 1666 he was captain of the Portland ; but from 1667 to 1671

* See p. 19 in the Correspondence. Charnock in his BiograpMa Navalis, i. 334, has made him out to be the son of Andrew Haddock, his own nephew.

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lie appears to have temporarily left the Navy and engaged in trading to the Mediterranean. On the breaking out of the Dutch war, however, he was made captain of the Koyal James, the ship on which the ill-starred Earl of Sandwich hoisted his flag in the battle of Southwold Bay. He was one of the few officers of that vessel who survived the day. though he did not escape unwounded. He next commanded the Lion; but early in 1673 he was appointed to the Eoyal Charles, Prince Rupert's ship, and within a few weeks followed the Prince into the Royal Sovereign, when the bad qualities of the former ship in action became evident. In July of the same year he was made Commissioner of the Navy ; and on the 3rd of July, 1675, he was knighted. In 1682 he was appointed to the command of the Duke and to the chief command of ships of war in the Thames and narrow seas ; and in the next year became First Commissioner of the Victualling Office. After the Revolution he was named Comptroller of the Navy, which office he continued to hold till his death, and received a pension of £500 a year. He was one of the joint commanders-in-chief of the fleet in the expedition to Ireland in 1690. He died on the 26th of January, 1715, in his eighty- sixth year, and was buried in his native town of Leigh.

Sir Richard represented the borough of Shoreham in the parlia- ment of 1685-1687. He was twice married, his first wife being named Lydia, probably a member of the family of Stevens, which was settled at Leigh. The maiden name of his second wife Eliza- beth is unknown. He probably married her not earlier than 1670,

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when she was about twenty years of age, the inscription on her tomb recording her death in 1709, at the age of 59.

Sir Richard appears to have had at the least six children, three sons and three daughters. The sons were Richard, William, and Nicholas. Of the daughters the name of only one, Elizabeth, has survived, who married John Clarke, of Blake Hall in Bobbing- worth, co. Essex. Another daughter married a Lydell. The third daughter died unmarried. William, apparently the second son, died young. Richard and Nicholas both entered the Navy.

Richard, the eldest son, was, in 1692, fifth lieutenant of the Duchess, and was present at the battle of La Hogue. He after- wards served in the London, and in 1695 was in command of the Rye. At the beginning of 1702 he received his commission as captain of the Reserve, and in the following year succeeded to the Swallow. In the latter ship he served with Sir George Rooke in the Mediterranean. But in 1707 he had the misfortune to be surprised by the French when convoying the Archangel merchant fleet and to lose fifteen ships ; and, although appointed to the Resolution early in the following year, he seems to have soon retired from active service. In 1734, however, he re-appears as Comptroller of the Navy, and held the post for fifteen years, dying at an advanced age in 1751. From the entries in Leigh parish registers it seems that he was married thrice and had issue, none of whom, however, survived him many years.

Of Nicholas, the youngest son of Sir Richard Haddock, we first

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catch sight in the following pages (p. 43) as distinguishing himself at Vigo in 1702, and serving in Spain in 1706. In the following year, on the 7th April, he received the command of the new ship Ludlow Castle, being not yet twenty years old. At the battle of Cape Passaro he fought his ship, the Grafton, with great gallantry; and indeed at all times proved himself a very skilful and dashing officer. He rose eventually to the rank of Admiral of the Blue, and commanded the squadron sent into the Mediterranean to overawe the Spaniards in 1738-1741. He returned to England invalided and did not long survive, dying in 1746, aged 60.

About the year 1723 he purchased Wrotham Place, in Kent, where he occasionally lived. He left three sons : Nicholas, Richard, and Charles. The first died in 1781 ; Richard served in the Navy; Charles was still living at Wrotham in 1792.

Here the male line of the Haddocks fails : and it is not necessary to follow the family history further. A pedigree, which maybe found useful, is appended.*

It will be seen that the letters and papers here printed belonged, for the most part, to Sir Richard Haddock. His long life enabled

* The best account of the Haddock family is to be found in a paper written bj Mr. H. W. King and printed in The Archaeological Mine, a work relating to Kentish history by A. J. Dunkin, vol. ii., pp. 41-51. Charnock's Biographia Navalis of course gives particulars of the services of the family ; and a number of original naval commissions of its different members are still extant in Egerton MS. 2520. See also The History of Rochford Hundred by Philip Benton, 1872, pp. 35 xqg.

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him to embrace four adult generations in his correspondence. The collection of documents from which they have been selected was purchased by the Trustees of the British Museum in 1879, and now forms the Egerton MSS. 2520-2532.

It is to be regretted that the Correspondence is so comparatively scanty, for no doubt at one time the collection was a good deal larger. From Nichols's Literary Anecdotes (vol. v. p. 376) we know that the Haddock papers were placed in the hands of Captain William Locker, the Lieutenant-Governor of Greenwich Hospital, who contemplated a publication of naval biography which was carried out by Charnock in his Biographia Navalis from the same materials. There is also evidence among the papers themselves, in the form of a letter written by Charles Haddock in 1792, to show that they were placed in Locker's hands. The fate of borrowed books and papers is a mournful one.

But, few as they are, a selection from the Haddock Papers has been thought worthy to appear in print. As specimens of the letter- writing of a seafaring family of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the letters have a value of their own, even apart from the personal interest which they inspire as the record of long and honourable service.

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COKBESPONDENCE

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THE FAMILY OF HADDOCK.

CAPTAIN KICHARD HADDOCK a TO HIS FATHER.

HoNd FATHER, Dragon frig* in the Downes, this 30th May, a° 1657.

Sir, these I hope will congratulate yor safe arrivall at Leghorne, wch God graunt may be with yor health and well fare, for the con- tinuation whereof I shall ever pray.

I cannot yet forgett my unhapynes y* soe short a tyme and small distance hindred me the inioym* of seeing you before you gote out ye Channell, seeing I made it my aime and bussines to performe it, but pleased God to frustrate me of my intended hapynes. I hope y* our next interview may be with the greater ioy and comfort. Indeed, when I returned to Dover, which was the Sonday following yor departure, I was not a little greived when Major Gen11 Kelseyb tould me ye unwellcome news of yor being past by; and himselfe was very sory when I gave him an ace* y* I mett you not, and tould me, if I had in ye least desired not to have gone for Zeinhead, he would have ordered an other ship in or roome. I was very thank- full for his respect he exprest towards you, but I knew not before yl I might be soe bould wth him as to desire such a favor. You saild hence ye Fry day evening; and Satuarday, by 10 in ye forenoone, we were soe neare ye head of Beachy y* noe shipp could or did passe

* Afterwards Admiral Sir K. Haddock.

b Major-General Thomas Kelsey, commanding in Kent and Surrey. CAMD. SOC. B

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by us, but we spake wth in hopes of meeting you. Surely the wind blew the harder to deny me yl hapynes. God in mercy goe alongst with you and preserve you from the rage of unreasonable men. I shall not be wanting, as I am bound in duty, to make it my earnest request to God for yor preservation. My wife, in good health, presents her humble duty to you, and hath ever since bine very sor- rowfull she stayed not behind to present her duty and respects to you at yor departure.

Sir, litle of novelty ofers at present, only of great preparations for ye fitting out seavrall great shipps, as ye Resolution, Naiesby, and Andrew, from Portsm0 ; ye Tryomph, Victory, Vantguard, and Entrance, from Chatham. I cannot give you an ace1, ye occasion or upon wl designe ye shipps are prepared ; only suppose it may be to be in a readynes to defend our selves if any treachorus act should be ofered by the Hollander, who will have 70 saile men of warr out very sodainely, as is certainely reported. I hope noe act of hostillity against us is intended. We have iust cause to feare ye worst; and I think, as farr as I am able to aprehend, you will have little occasion to trust or put any confidence in them abroad. God send us peace at home and abroad ; but, if these faile us, peace wth God will beare up our spirits in the greatest dificulties y* doe atend our earthly pilgrimage.

Sir, my wife desires you please, at yor arrivall at Ven% to buy for her a foiled stone of the measure I conseave was given by her sisters to Brother Andrew at Leigh ; as alsoe a pott ketle and 2 stue panns, one lesser than the other; as alsoe a jarr from Leghorne, with wl other things nessesary for a howse, to ye value of £3 in fower pound in all, which shall be thankfully repayed. I intend to wright you to Vena, when [I] conseave you may ataine thither, and what ofers shall not be wanting of advizeing you.

My Lord Protector hath denyed ye governm1 of the Comon wealth under ye title of King,a and since, its established to him in the title he now beares.b

* On the 8th May. b On the 25th May.

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I have not heard from home since yor departure. My intire love with my wives remembred to our 3 brothers wth all or freinds on bord you. Brother Wm., in health, prests his humble duty to you, wth his love to his Bror. My saluts to Mr. Holder; and, with my most humble duty presented to yor self, I remayne,

Sir, yor ever lo. and obedient sonne till death,

RICHARD HADDOCK.

My wife being present desires, wth ye presenting her humble duty to you, to subscribe herselfe yor lo. daughter till death,

LYDIA HADDOCKE.*

Since ye wrighting ye above lynes I have recd order to goe over and ryde before Dunkerk, and to take ye comand of yfc squadron now riding there. This day is arrived hapy news, Gen11 Blake's burneing and sinking 16 saile of the K. of Spaine's gallions and shipps at Sta Cruse, most welcome and true.b K, H.

To his hond. father, Capt. Wm. Haddock, Comander of the shipp Hanniball, these present, Livorno.

THE SAME TO THE SAME.

Dragon frig* in Dunkirk Road, this 15th June, a° 1657.

HoNd FATHER,

Sr, my most humble duty wtb Bro. Wms. presented unto you wth or intire loves to or loveing brothers and freinds wth you. These only serve to advize you of our wellfare, hopeing and earnestly praying to the Lord that ye like good health atends you y*, blessed

a Richard Haddock's first wife. Perhaps her maiden name was Stevens. (See letter of 1 May 1658, in which Haddock sends his duty to " Father and Mother Steevens.")

b Blake's last victory at Santa Cruz, in the Canaries, 20th April. He died on his voyage home, in sight of land, on the 17th August.

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be God, we injoy. These I hope will find you safe arrived at Leghorne. My last from the Downes gave you an ace* y1 we were ordered over hither to take the command of this squadron that now lyes wth us before this place. a Since or arrivall heere, wch is 14 dayes since, not anything of action hath ofered worth yor advice ; the good we doe heere is only to keepe there men of warr in y1 are in, and prevent those comeing in wth there prisses y1 are abroad. But they want not harbours in Holland to secure them and w* they ketch from us. I conseave you want not letters of caution from yor owners to be carefull of trusting the Hollanders. I feare they will prove treacherous to there ingagem1* wth us in the peace agreed betwixt us. They are almost ready to saile wth 50 or upward men of warr, besides 16 saile now in or Channell. My Lord Protector is not wanting to prevent there treacherous actions, if any intended against us. I conseave in 14 dayes we may have upwards of 40 saile, considerable men of warr, in the Downes, to answer any atempt may be ofered by them ; and doe beleive both we and the squadron before Ostend may be called of, as soone as we have any intelligence of there redynes to saile.

All or freinds in England, I heare, are in health. My wife still at Deall, and stayes to accompa Aunt Morgan to London ; my unkle now being in the Downes, and conseave may saile very sodainely, the wind presenting faire at present. Sir, please at yor arrival at Vena to present my service and respects to my Mr. and Mrs. Hobson, with Mr. Jno. Hobson, junr. my saluts; as also to Mr. Jones and his wife.

Sir, I have not else at present worth yor advice. With my earnest prayers to Almighty God to preserve you out of the hands of yor mercy les enemyes, and send you a safe returne to the injoy m* of yor

a By the treaty (23 Mar. 1657) with France against Spain, Cromwell agreed to find 6000 men, with a sufficient fleet, to operate against Gravelines, Mardike, and Dunkirk ; the two latter towns, when reduced, to be delivered to the English. Mar- dike was captured in September of this year, and Dunkirk in June 1658 ; and both towns were duly handed over to the English forces.

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relations, for the happy accomplish m* whereof itt shall be the earnest request of,

Sir, yor most affetionate and obedient sonne till death,

EICHARD HADDOCK.

To his hond freind Capt. Wm Haddock, Comander of the ship Hanniball, these present, at Livorno.

THE SAME TO THE SAME.

Dragon frig* in Dunkirke Road, this 26 Aprill, 1658; Monday.

HoNd FATHER,

Sr, my most humble duty presented unto you wth my deare Mother, Grandfather, and Grandm0, wth my loveing saluts to my wife, bros, sisters, and freinds. My last, of 18 instant, I sent by my Bror Wm., whome I gave leave to goe to London ; wch hope is safely arrived with you. Since wch, litle of acction here in these parts. The 21 instant, about midnight, heere escaped out a small pickeron of 4 or 6 guns out this habor, notwthstanding our vigilancy and indeavors for his surprizall, ha vein g or boates in wth the shore and a small frig1, who gave him chase and fired seavrall guns at him ; but the darknes of the night prevented there long keepeing sight of him, and, notwthstanding they made after him to the best of there under- standing, yet he got away and noe sight of him at day light. Last Saturday heere went from Mardike Marshall d'Aumon, Duke of Bouligne/ wth 13 hundred French souldiers, imbarqued in seaverall vessells, and gone to Oastend, before wch place they arrived that night wth the Vice Admirall.b

a Antoine, Marshal d'Aumont, Governor of Boulogne. Negotiations had been opened with traitors within Ostend; but the matter was kept no secret, and the gar- rison was prepared. When therefore D'Aumont attempted a surprise, the tables were turned; he was caught in a trap and had to surrender. — Sismondi, Hist, des Frangais, vol. xxiv. (1840), p. 564.

b Edward Montague, afterwards Earl of Sandwich, who had command of the English fleet.

5 HADDOCK CORRESPONDENCE.

If the intelligence given me be true, we shall see a sodaine altera- tion in Flaunders. Its said y*, for a considerable summe of mony, the towne of Ostend is to be delivered up to ye King of Fraunce by the Governor and inhabitants of sd place, they being in such a sad condition by reasone of the extreame burden y* lyes upon them.

For security of performance there is a considerable man, who hath confirmed the accord wth the K. of Fraunce, now wth Marshall d'Aumon, that belongs to Ostend, who hath ingaged his life for per- formance. I pray God they faile not in there undertakeings ; and, although treachery be hateful and odious throughout the world, yet doubtles *twill prove hapye for our poore traders when such a con- siderable place as yl is, a neast of roages, shall be routed. If it proves efectuall, farwell most pta of Flaunders this sumer.

Sr, please to keepe this intelligence to yor selfe, least it should come from me, being privately advized me. I hope, when our vic- tualling is out, we shall come over to tallow; wch God graunt, that I may not fayle of my earnest desire of seeing you before you goe forth. I intend sodaynly to send to the Vice Admirall to know where we shall be disposed by him or otherwise from the Comissrs of Admiralty. Sr, I have not other at present. Wth my humble request to ye Allmighty for yor preservation, I remayne

Yor most loveing and obedient son till death,

RICHARD HADDOCK.

To his hond freind Capt. Wm. Haddock, at his howse nere the Newstaires in Wapping, these present, in London.

THE SAME TO THE SAME.

Dragon frig1 in Dnnkirke Road, this prim0 May, 1658; Satuarday.

HoNd FATHER,

Sr, my last from this place was of 26th past, since wch not any- thing hath ofered. The great Monsr with the soldiers I gave you ace1 of are yet before Oastend with the Vice Admirall have efected

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nothing, not haveing had opertunity, these out winds preventing there landing. God sending us shore winds, we shall quicklie see the result of the action in hand.

I sent to the Vice Admirall to desire he would order us into the river to tallow and revictuall ; but he wrights me, in regard he hath noe ship with him to place in our roome, he will not wthout order from the Adm^. Soe this day I have wrote to them, advizeing the neere expiration of our victualling, also makeing it my humble request that we may come to Chatham to tallow and revictuall; wch I hope they will graunt, but am dubious of my desired hapynesse of seeing you before you goe forth. My humble duty presented to my deare Mother, Grandfather, and Grandm0, Father and Mother Steevens, wth my loveing saluts to my wife, brothers, sisters, and freinds in gen11; and, wth my most humble duty to yor selfe, wth prayers to the Allmighty for yor continued preservation, I remaine, Sr, your most loveing and dutyfull sonne till death,

RICHARD HADDOCK.

Being hast, ye frig* under saile with a lee tyde, my wife must excuse my not wrighting her at present.

THE SAME TO SIR WILLIAM COVENTRY.*

Portland frig" in Oasely Bay,b 11th Sept. 1666; Tuesday, 8 at night.

EIGHT HoNble,

Yours of 8th instant, wth his R. Highnesse order inclosed, I received this afternoone; wch shall put in execution to morrow morning, wind and weather permiting. Sonday last, in compa wth the Adventure and a fire ship, we say led out of Oasely bay through the Slade Way,c intending for the North Forland, and soe unto the

a Sir William Coventry was at this time one of the Commissioners of the Navy. b Hollesley Bay, or Haven, on the Suffolk coast, between Orford Ness and the River Deben.

c The channel leading south from Hollesley Bay.

8 HADDOCK CORRESPONDENCE.

Downes, in search of our fleet. About noone we gote sight of the Forland, and within one hower after we espied a fleet of shipps on the back of the Goodwin sand, wch we deemed to be our fleet; but, standing wth them, we found them to be the Dutch fleet, consisting of 70 in 75 sayle. Two ships of the fleet makeing us bore downe wtb us, and presantly after two more followed them. We stood away from them to the eastwards, towards a ship then to leewards, wch we suposed to be a Hollander, but proved a Sweed bound for Burdaix Light; and, finding two of the men of warr spring there luffs againe and only 2 bore downe wth us, we clapt upon a wind and stood towards them, haveing gote them about 5 or 6 miles to leewards of ye body of there fleet. But, when they came wthin neere shote of us, they keept there wind, would not come neere to fight us, but kept fireing guns to windwards and makeing a waft wth there ensignes for more assistance; whereupon 7 or 8 sayie more bore away wth us. Night comeing on, we thought it not convenient to lye by for them, but stood away for our owne coast, not being able to keep our lower tire of guns out to windwards, and but 32 brUs powder on bord. Yesterday we got into Alborough bay, when I gave ace* to the Comissr at Harwch by an expresse from Alborough of our proceedings, desireing him to send the said letter to yor Honr, if he thought it convenient. I have now recd from Harwch an aditionall suply of sixty barills of powder. The Adventure intends alongst wth us. The Litle Mary, I understand, will not be ready in 3 or 4 dayes. To conclud, Sonday night proved such a hard galle of wind y* I iudge the Dutch fleet either drove or bore away towards there owne coast, for we saw them all under sayle before twas dark. I shall not be wanting to give yor Honr an ace* of our proceedings, wch ig wt Ofers at present from,

Rt Honble, yr humble serv' att Comd,

EICHARD HADDOCK.

Endorsed: "Copie of lettr to S'Wm. Coventry, from Sr Rd Haddock."

HADDOCK CORRESPONDENCE. DECLARATION OF CAPTAIN RICHARD HADDOCK.

A° 1657,

NoYeinb*. Dragon frig*, Novemb', 1657.

18. The 18th November I recd orders from Sr Richard Stainera to sayle out ye Downes, and in company wth the Colchester frig1* to plye of of Ostend.

26. The 26 day, Thursday, we sailed out ye Downes, ye wind at west. We went out at ye North Sand Head, twixt ye Brake and Goodwin. This noone we spake wth the Pembrooke frigtt, come from Harwich cleane tallowed; N.E. from ye north Forland, in 15 fadoms watter, we clapt by under a maine course, intending to drive all night ; but, upon sight of 6 sayle of Holland men of warr, 3 wth there flaggs abroad, to say Adm11 Vice and Rear Admirall, we stood with them. Ye Pembrooke haveing espied them before us, though bound into ye Downes, bore away on the back of the Goodwin towards them; comeing up with them, first fired at ye Adm18 flagg, but was not struck. Upon wch ye Comandr of the Pembrooke sent his boats on bord to know ye reason of itt. Whilst they were in dispute, we, comeing in shote, fired at ye AdmUs flagg alsoe, and presantly after they sent up a man to topmasthead and struck the flagg, wch his Vice and Reare Adm11 did the like. Then we bore under his lee ahead of him, and hayld him and stood asterne, and, after, tackt and came and lay on his weather quarters. There flaggs hang as a waft for about J an hower, and afterwards furld them ; the Adm11 fired a gun to lewards, filld, and stood away to ye etwards. We answerd him with another; lay by and drove all night. These men of warr came there from ye coast of Portugall, ye Ld Updam Adm11, as I was informed by Sr Richard Stayner at my returne into ye Downes. This I can testifie upon oath, if calld thereunto.

Given under my hand this primo January, 167J.

RICHARD HADDOCK.

a Admiral Sir Richard Stayner was knighted for his gallantry in Blake's attack oil Santa Cruz. (See above, p. 3.)

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CAPTAIN EICHARD HADDOCK TO HIS WiFE.a

On bord y6 R. James, at anchor 4 miles wthout St. Hellens, this 5th May, 1672; Sonday night.

MY DEARE BETTY,

This afternoone we arrived this place wtb our noble fleet. Wthin, at Spitthead, we see ye French fleet gote heere before us wilbe good company. Tomorrow I doubt not but we shall joyne wth them. A few daies will prepare us to goe to seeke ye Hollanders, who are out. We saw some of there scouts that day we sailed out ye river. I have no other news to write thee at present.

I hope these will find ye at London, where I advize thee to stay that I may the more certainely direct my letters to the. I shall not be wanting to give the advice by all opertunities how itt fares with us. God Almighty preserve and keepe the and us in good health, and in His good tyme send us a ioyfull meeteing. My deere love to all myne and thy loveing relations. Wth intire saluts to thy selfe and my daughter, I remayne thyne, whilst I am

RICHARD HADDOCK.

My love to my deare Coz Goodlad at Wapping. Pray venture a letter or two to Portsm0 to me. R. H.

THE SAME TO THE SAME.

On bord the Royall James, this 14th May, 1672; Tuesday evening, at anchor neere Dungenesse.

MY DEAREST LOVE,

These are to give the an ace1 of my wellfare and good health, wcb I blesse God I doe injoy. We are now at anchor neere Dungenesse wth our whole fleet, consisting of 80 men of warr, English and French, about 20 or 22 fireships, and many small vessells besides. We have bine tydeing it up from the Isle of Wind (sic). Ever since a His second wife, Elizabeth; maiden name unknown.

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Wedensday last the winds have hung easterly. The Dutch fleet, we heard yesterday, were at ye North Forland. We doe our utmost endeavor to get to them, if they have a mind to fight us. To ye westwards of ye Downes they may easely be wth us; but we judge there designe is to ingage us amongst the sands, wch posibly they may be deceaved in there expectation. God Almighty goe along wth us and give us victory over our enemyes. I know I shall not want thy prayers and the well wishes of all my deare relations for my preservation. We have a brave fleet and, in the maine, well mand. For our parts we doe not complayn, haveing neere 900 men on bord us; ye Duke 1000, I beleive, and upwards. It is probable, before we ingage, we may have ye ships in the river ioyne wth us, wch are 10 or 11 men of warr and 4 fire ships. I desire we may put our strength in God Almighty; but soe noble a brave fleet have not bine seene together in our dayes.

My deare, speake to my bror Joseph for the ballence of the mony I desired him to rece for me of Mr. Forth and Mr. Beare, and to pay out of it severall debts wch at present I doe not remember the per- ticulars. I know not how to direct the to answer these, nor where you may send to meet us. If this arrive you on Thursday, you may venture a lyne or two to Dover Road, where posibly we may stop 24 houres to watter, and next I supose for Sowle Bay or the coast of Holland. Desire my Coz Goodlad, the draper, to rece three pounds for the of Cozen Boys, wch is due April last; and pray, when the bond is due of Mr.Welsted and Temple, goe to them and rece the interest £9, and desire them to lett me have £100 or more, if posible, to suply my occasions. Thou knowest the imploym* I am in is very expencive, and therfore let me not faile of haveing £100 at least of them. Twas Mr. Welsted's promise in a month, but I have stayd neere 10 weeks. Pray let me know w* is done wth the mony in bror Hurleston's hands and brother Thornburgh. I know they will be very kind. I have heere inclosed sent the my will, wch have made for all good respects. I desire the to keepe it by the,, sealed as it is. If God Almighty in His providence should take me

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out this life, you will find I have not failed of my promise to thee, though I have some reason to lament the kindnes done me by thy freinds ; but that shall not trouble me at this tyme. God Almighty, I doubt not, will preserve me, that I may live to see the againe wth ioy and comfort. Pray lett me know by some meanes or other of the receipt of these. My deare love to my sister Jessen, bror and sister Thornburgh, bror Hurlestone. My respects to my Unckle Moyer; all of them. My kind saluts to my dear Coz Goodlad at Wapping. To all my loveing freinds comend me. My deare, I have only to add my prayers to God for thy wellfare. Wth my intire love and saluts to thee and my daughter, I remaine

Thyne, till death us p1,

KICHARD HADDOCK.

These I send to Dover by our kitch, who is goeing to watter foi us, but doe beleive we may get thither ourselves as soone.

THE SAME TO THE SAME.

E. James, neare Sowle Bay, this 21 May, 1672; Tuesday evening.

MY DEARE BETTY,

The 18th instant, wch was Satuarday last, I wrote the by one of the yachts, and as thou advised. Ye next day we saw the Dutch fleet. We drew ours into a lyne of bataile, the French leading, we in the reare, all prepared to fight, haveing stav'd and heft over bord all ours, and I think all the cabins of the whole fleet. The Hol- landers stood over for ye Flaunders Banks and ye Weelings. About 7 at night we were up wth them in a lyne, as they lay in the same posture very orderly to rece us; but, finding it would have bine darke before we could have well began with them, being about 4 or 5 miles to leewards of us, ye wind at W.S.W., we thought it not convenient to ingage them. Ye night following, upon there tacking of, we tackt in ye reare, ye whole fleet following to keep them to

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leewards of us, as we did y* night by our twice tacking againe. Yesterday morning it proved a very thick fogge. We wth our division anchored, standing in wth the Banks of Flaunders of Oostend. About 10 in ye morning, upon cleareing up, we wayed anchor, ye Dutch fleet 3 miles to leewards of us. We stood of and mett our fleet standing in. Ye Dutch stood of wth us. This day it proved much wind, that we could not fight them; whereupon we stood in to our shore N.W., and about ^ seas over we anchored all night. This morneing we saw ye fleet again. We stood of towards them, expecting they would have stood wth us ; but they stood of intending to draw us over amongst those shoulds, to fight them there. We keeping our wind, and they bearing away, as we suposed, from ye wind, we lost sight of them. It blowing hard we tackt, and now come neare to Sowle Bay, where I supose we may stay a day or two to watter our fleet.

This day came into us the Katherine, Princes, and Advice, wth 2 fire ships more; soe yl I supose we are neerer 90 then fowerscore men of warr, upwards 25 fireships, amongst wch my unckle E. H. is come. The Dutch fleet not soe many men of warr as we, I beleive, by 8 or 10 saile, many small vessells and fire ships. Had it pleased God yesterday to have given us faire weather, God assisting, we had given a good ace* of or actions ; our men briske and brave and very ready and willing to fight. The Earle of Bristow* on bord wth us. I thinke a fourth part the nobles of England in the fleett. This I send on shore to Sowle, to take its fortune towards thee. Being in hast, have not tyme to wright any body else. If my bror Bra- denham be in towne, shew him this letter. I two dayes since recd a letter from Mr. Clarke, ye apothecary, wth a case of spiritts, come very opertunely (as he wrights me) to raise my courage, but I have not yet tasted them. Pray returne him my kind thanks. I hope shall survive this warr to make him amends. My deare, I should be glad to heare from the, but I know not how. I shall not be wanting to give the a constant advice, as opertunity presents, of my a George Digby, 2nd Earl of Bristol.

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wellfare and our actions. Youl excuse me to my loveing relations y* I wright none of them. At present it is fowle weather. Am glad we gote hither, for stormy weather may shatter us and disable us more then a bataile. God Almighty be our guard and defence, and give us victory over our enemyes. His providence hath hitherto prevented our ingageing twice. My deare and loveing saluts to all my loveing relations at Rederif,a and to my lo: Coz. Goodlad at Wapping and London, &c. Wth intire love and saluts to thyselfe wth my daughter, I remaine

Thy loveing husband till death us part,

RICHARD HADDOCK.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Yorke is very zeolus to ingage ye Dutch, God sending a good opertunity and watter enough under our keels.

I had almost forgot to desire the to returne my thanks to Capt. Grantham for ye barill of Muscadine he brought me from Mr. Wil- kinson, of Messina, and for a chest of Florence he sent me from him- selfe, wth seavrall other things, all wcl1 I reced, wth a chest of Florence for my Lord Sandwch. Pray pay him three pound for itt. I shall rece it heere of Mr. Lowe, my Lord's serv1. Thyne,

R. HADDOCK.

THE SAME TO THE SAME.

K. James, in Sonthold Bay, this 25th May, 1672; Saturday evening. MY DEAREST LOVE,

These I send by Capt. Poole,b who, wth the Garland frig" in compa, hath leave to goe his former intended voaidge for Barbados. Pray advize my bror Bradenham of itt. They will be good convoy for Mr. Naufan's ship wth masts, &c., wch lyes at Gravesend, to goe thorough the Channell wth them.

a Rotherhithe.

b Sir William Poole, distinguished by his share in the reduction of Tobago, this year.

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This day I gote two protections from the Duke, one for Mr. Naufan's ship at Lancaster for 50 men, ye other for ye ship wth stores for 20 men, wch is speciall protections, y* the men will not be molested. Tell my Bror Bradenham I have given them to Mr. Sam. Hawkes, who is comeing wth them.

I am sory to heare poore Sam Lane was prest into ye French Victory, and since caryed into Holland. I pitty the losse of the men in her, but ye Capt. will have his reward for looseing her soe basely. The Dutch fleet lye now neare the Gallaper in expectation of us; we are very neere, ready to waite on them. 2 or 3 days must not breake square wth us; but they are deceaved to think we intend to fight them amongst the sands. I supose our martch wilbe over for ye coast of Holland into sea roome and deepe watter. We are, not- withstanding Capt. Poole and his consarts leaveing us, 90 men of warr, 26 fire ships, many small vessells. I supose the Dutch daylie add to ther strength as well as wee. God Allmighty be our defence.

My deare, I am sory that my first letter from Southold, wch went by land, advized the of our 2 days stay, whereas we have bine heere 4 days, and shall stay 3 or 4 longer. Then we shall have wattered our whole fleet for one month, and victualld compleat for 2 months, and mand I beleive thoroughout ye fleet, not 500 wanting. I rather think, in a day or two longer, we may have 1000 super- numeraryes. A very worthy brave fleet, I think, as ever were together. God give us couragious hearts, and then I beleive they may be ventured.

I hope all my loveing relations at Kederif and Wapping are in health, to whome present my love and saluts. I expect to heare from the by the yacht wch I sent my last letter by, Captain Burstow, Comander.a I blesse God I am now in good health, though 5 or 6 days since, and when we were going to fight the Dutch, I had such a paine in my right arme that could not use it but very litle; but now, thanke God, am very well. My deare Betty, I have only to * William Bustow or Burstow, commanding the Mary yacht.

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add my saluts to thyselfe wth my daughter; doe remaine thyne till death us part, RICHARD HADDOCK.

This I intended thee by Capt. Poole, but was gone ere I could put it on bord him ; therfore doe send it by the post. I recd last night bror Thornbrugh's letter, 23 instant, by ye Dreadnought's Leiveten*. He wrights me of thy health, and yl I shall rece a letter from the by ye Hatton ketch. I am thyne,

26 May, 72. R. HADDOCK.

COPY OF CAPTAIN RICHARD HADDOCK'S a ACCOUNT, GIVEN HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUKE OF YORK, OF THEIR ENGAGEMENT, MAY 28TH, 1672, IN THE ROYAL JAMES.

In obedience to your Royal Highness's commands, I here humbly present to your view a brief narrative of our actions on board the Royal James, the 28th May last past, as followeth:

Upon signal from our scouts of the Dutch fleet's approach (betwixt 3 and 4, the wind E. by S.), we put our ships immediately into a fighting posture, brought our cable to the capston, and heaft a peak of our anchor, which, upon firing a gun and loosing foretop- sail of your Royal Highness's ship, we presently weighed, and after- wards lay kedging with our headsails at the mast till our anchor was up; which done (steered N.E. by N.), we made sail and stood off, with our signal abroad for the squadron b to draw into their line of battle, which was done as well as the short time we had would permit. But, finding myself one of the weathermost ships, I bore to leeward till I had brought ourselves in a line; the Vice Admiral and part of his division right a head, the Rear Adm1 and his right astern; only two or three frigates to leeward, and so near, one of

a The MS., which is a modern transcript, has " Sir Richard Haddock;" but he was not knighted until 1675, and therefore, for uniformity, the title is suppressed. b The blue squadron.

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them within call. The Dutch squadron, Van Ghent, attacked us in the body and rear very smartly, and let the van go ahead sometime without engaging them, so far as I could perceive. We engaged about an hour and an half very smartly. When the Dutch found that they could do no good on us with their men of war, they attacked us with two fire ships, the first of which we fired with our shott, the second disabled by shooting down his yards. Before which time I had sent our barge, by my Lord's a command, ahead to Sir Joseph Jordaine,b to tack, and with his division to weather the Dutch that were upon us and beat them down to leeward of us, and come to our assistance. Our pinnace I sent likewise astern (both coxswains living) to command our ships to come to our assist- ance ; which never returned, but were on board several who endea- voured it but could not effect it.

About two hours after we engaged we were boarded athwart hawse by one of their men of war, notwithstanding our endeavours to prevent him by wearing our ship two or three points from the wind to have taken him alongside. When he had been athwart our hawse some short time, my Lord would have had me boarded him with our men and taken him, which I refused to do by giving him my reason that it would be very disadvantageous to us : first, that I must have commanded our men from our guns, having then I believe 300 men killed and wounded, and could not expect but to lose 100 in taking him; secondly, had we so done, we could not have cut him loose from us, by reason the tide of flood bound him fast; and, thirdly, had we plyed our guns slowly by taking away our men, we had given cause to the enemy to believe we had been disabled, and consequently more of them would have boarded us, which might possibly have overpressed us, and would have • been more dishonour to have lost her by that means than being at last burnt; — so that my Lord was satisfied with my reasons, and

a Earl of Sandwich.

b Sir Joseph Jordan, Vice- Admiral of the Blue. See a defence of his conduct, as described in this letter, in Charnock's Biographia Navalis. CAMD. SOC. D

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resolved we should cuff it out to the last man, still in expectation of assistance.

About 10 o'clock Van Ghent himself, finding those his other flags could do no good upon us, nor the party with them, came up with us himself, we having lost the conduct of our ship. He ranged along our side, gave us a smart volley of small shot and his broadside, which we returned to him with our middle and lower tier, our upper guns almost all disabled, the men killed at them. He passed ahead of us and brought his ship too to leeward, and there lay till I was gone off the deck.

Some short time after, Sir Joseph Jordaine (our barge having been with him and given him my Lord's commands) passed by us very unkindly to windward, with how many followers of his division I remember not, and took no notice at all of us; which made me call to mind his saying to your Royal Highness, when he received his commission, that he would stand betwixt you and danger; which I gave my Lord account of, and did beleive by his acting yourself might be, in his view, in greater danger than we, which made my Lord answer me: "We must do our best to defend ourselves alone."

About 12 o'clock I was shot in the foot with a small shot, I sup- posed out of Van Ghent's main top, which pressed me after a small time to go down to be dressed. I gave my Lord account of it, and resolved to go up again as soon as was dressed. In the mean time, when I went off the deck, sent up both Sir Charles* and Lieutenant Mayob to stand by my Lord; and, as soon as I came down, remem- bring the flood was done, sent up to my Lord to desire him to command the ship to anchor by the stern, which was immediately done; and, after we had brought up, the ship athwart our hawse fell away, and being entangled with our rigging our men boarded and took her, cut her loose from us, and, at my Lord's command, returned all aboard again. Upon which I, hearing the ship was loose, sent up to my Lord that the cable might be cut and the ship

* Sir Charles Harbord, who served as a volunteer and perished.

b Thomas Mayo. He was one of the few who escaped from the Royal James.

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brought to sail before the wind, and loose our mainsail; which was presently done. Then my Lord sent me his thanks for my advice, and withall doubted not but to save the ship. At that time the surgeon was cutting off the shattered flesh and tendons of my toe ; and immediately after we were boarded by the fatal fire ship that burnt us.

CAPTAIN EICHARD HADDOCK TO HIS WIFE.

On bord the R. Charles, this 29th May, 1673; MY DEAREST LOVE, 7 leagues of Oostend.

These are to give the an ace* of God's goodnes to me. I am very well and in health, praised be His name therfore. Yesterday, the 28th instant (ye same day twelve month they atacqued us in Sowle bay), we atacqued the Dutch fleet, consisting of 74 or 76 men of warr and 20 fire ships, as the Dutch prisoners informe us. We set upon them in the Schoon Velt, the wind at W.N.Wfc., but changed to ye N.N.E. in the bataile towards evening. We buoyed the out- ward banks wth our smacks and ketches, and had a smart brush with them from 12 at noone as long as daylight lasted. The damage we have done them we certainly know not. Severall of ther ships we disabled, wch we forced into leewards. Trump, whose squadron we ingaged wth ours, shifted his ship once, if not twice. What number of men we have lost in the fleet not yet know ; I believe not 500. In our ship not above 20, as I can learne ; some mortality wounded, others dismembred. Amongst our dead men is poore Capt. Wasey, who first lost his arme close to his shoulder, and about 6 howers after dyed of his wounds. My brother Joseph very well; was wth me last night after ye bataile. My unckle Richard very well: he hath burnt his ship ; was faire to burne De Rutter within his length, when they shote his masts about his eares; for wch indeavoured service ye Prince a hath given him one hundred pounds, and gratified

* Kupert.

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also his oficers, &c. I supose we shall not atacque them in that place againe. Our greatest care was to keepe cleere of the sands in that narrow hole. Our ship, so tender with a saile that we fought w* the watter some tymes comeing into our lower tire of ports, wch was very disadvantagious, could not do that service intended by us.

There is severall Cap*8 killed that we have already an account of;

1 hope no more. Capt. Finch in the Yorke, Capt. Tempest in the Sweepestakes, Capt. Fowles in the Lyon ; and Capt. Werden, in the Heneretta, mortality wounded. a We have severall of our ships shattered, not above two disabled, and none, as I heare of, lost, but

2 or 2 fire ships burnt.

We ride now wthin 3 leagues of the Dutch fleete; they ride in the place we atacqued them in, and we in our former birth, only about 2 leagues further of the shore. How soone we shall fight them againe cannot resolve, but in ye place they now ride I iudge we shall not atacque them a second tyme. I beleive the Prince may shift his ship and goe into some other ; but of y t in my next.

I desire that thanks and prayes may be returned to Almighty God for his preservation of me. My humble duty to my deare mother ; loving saluts to my brothers and sisters, and all my deare relations. God in mercy blesse and preserve them all, and send us a joy full meeteing. Wth my intire love and saluts to thee wth my daughter and litle Dickee, I remaine

Thine, till death us part,

RICHARD HADDOCK.

We have a rumor that Capt. Trevanionb is killed, comd& the Dreadnought; but I hope it is not true.

a William Finch, third son of Thomas, first Earl of Winchilsea; John Tempest, Thomas Foules, and Robert Werden. The last was not killed in this action, according to Charnock, Biogr. Naxalis.

b Richard Trevanion. He was not killed. He followed James II. into exile.

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THE SAME TO THE SAME.

Yet on bord y« R. Charles, this 31 May, 1673.

MY DEARE BETTY,

I wrote the two dayes since of God's goodnes to mee in or late bataile. I gave the ace* of Capt. Trevanions suposed to be killed, but he is well; and allso Capt. Courtney ,a wch was reported to be killed, is alive and well. Capt.Worden is since dead of his wounds.b We are now shifting ships, goeing on bord the London ; the reason I gave in my last. Sr Jn° Harman c goes from the London into the Sovraigne, and Capt. Hayward d out ye Sovraigne into this ship. It is no smal trouble to me to part from this brave ship; her only fault is she is tender sided, in all respects otherwayes the best ship in the world.

My deare, I am very well ; My bror Joseph and unckle Kichard likewise. The Prince in good health, and our fleet prepareing for another incounter, if the Dutch comes out. My deare, I am thyne till death, KICHARD HADDOCK.

Pray, if Comr Deane e be not in towne, send forward the inclosed to Portsm0.

THE SAME TO THE SAME.

E. Charles, rideing N°, 7 leagues from Oostend, this 1st June, 1673; Sonday.

MY DEARE BETTY,

Wee ride in sight of our neighbours the Dutch, not above 3 in 4 leagues distant. This morning they were under saile; we thought

* Francis Courtney. He fell in the action with the Dutch on the llth August of this year.

b This is denied. (See above, p. 20, note *.)

c Became Vice- Admiral of the Ked, on the death of Sir Edward Spragge, this year.

d John Hayward. He fell in the action of llth August, this year.

' Anthony Deane, Commissioner of the Navy at Portsmouth.

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they would have come of to us. We put ourselves in a posture to rece them. They have now the wind of us, being easterly; and may come out if they please. This morning we have ace1 from a good hand from Oostend y* they sent in 6 or 7 disabled ships to Flushing, two whereof sunck in going in. They likewise sent on shore 400 or 500 wounded men, and, as they advize from Oostend, comd was given not to speake of the fight at Flushing. So doe beleive, till they recrute ther strength, we shall not heare of them ; however, we are not wanting to prepare ourselves agl they come. The Swiftsure is this day come to us; had like to have bine snapt Tuesday last by the Amsterdam squadron y1 came into the Schoon Velt tyme enough to fight.

I have but little else to write to thee. Sr Roger Strickland sends his hoy to Deptford for watter; and these goe by Sr Ed. Spragg's yacht, who caryes up one Coll. Hambliton into the River, who lost his legg on bord us. Pray lett me heare from thee by one or both of them. My humble duty to my deare mother; love and saluts to all freinds in gen11. Wth my deare love to thy sclfe, my daughter, and little Richard, I remayne

Thyne, till death us part,

RICHARD HADDOCK.

JOURNAL [OF CAPTAIN RICHARD HADDOCK] IN HIS SHIP R. CHARLES, MAY, 1673.

A°. 1673.

May 11. This Sonday morneing, about 7 aclock, we anchored in the Prince's fleet, to the westwards of them, about 2 leagues to the westwards of Dongenesse, in 1 fadom watter, ye lighthouse beareing N.E. by E. This day I went on bord the St. Michell to waite on ye Prince, who comanded me to weigh and plye up to his ship; but, bloweing so hard, could not

12. This Monday morneing wind at N.E. and N.E. by K; blew very hard, and raine some part of the forenoone ; could not weigh.

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13. This Tuesday morneing, ye wind at north, we wayed and gote up to the Prince's ship, the St. Michel; anchored alongst her side without her. This forenoone his Highnes Prince Eupert came on bord us, but went of at noone; dyned on bord the E. Prince; after diner returned on bord us. This day we tooke on bord all the Prince's retenue and goods, &c. ; struck downe some of our gunns into hold, to rece new ones in ther roomes. All this afternoone ye wind at north ; constant rain.

14. This Wedensday we tooke on bord seaverall of the new gunns and mounted them. The wind this day came round from the N.W. to S.W*., S.E. and E. by N°. This day the French fleet apeared in sight about noone ; being litle wind, they anchored short of us about 3 leagues.

15. This Thursday we mounted all the rest of the new gunns; the wind at N.E*. to E.N.E. Ye French fleet wayed and plyed towards us ; anchored about 4 miles short of us.

16. This Fryday morneing the French fleet weighed and plyed up to us. About 9 a clock this morneing Monsr Conte d'Estrees,a ther Adm11, who wore his flagg at ye foretopmast head, being V. Adm11 of Fraunce, past by us about musket shote or somew* more asterne of us; struck his flagg, lored his topsailes and saluted us, I meane y6 Prince, wth 13 peece of ordnance; we returned him eleven in answer. Presantly after Monsr Conte d'Estrees came on bord us, to waite on his Highnes ye Prince. This evening came of from Eye his Maj*y and E. Highnes in there yachts ; came on bord us; stayed about one hower and a halfe, and then returned to the yachts againe after 8 at night.

17. This Satuarday morneing, the wind at N. by E., blowing very fresh, the Prince went on bord the Cleeveland yacht to waite upon his Map?; and about ^ an hower after the King, Duke, and Prince came on bord this ship. This forenoone we spread a standard in the mizen shrowds, fired a gunn to call on bord us the flagg oficers. This day the King and Duke dyned on bord us. The wind hath blowne very hard at N.N.E. and N.E. by N. all day.

a Jean, Comte d'Estrees.

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18. This Sonday the wind vered to the east and by north, and back to ye N.N.E*. at night; blew very fresh all day. This day the King dyned on bord Conte d'Estrees; the standard at maine top- mast head; his flagg struck wch he wore at the foretopmast head. This evening the King and Duke supt on bord us, and at 9 aclock tooke ther leaves of us and went on shore to Rye. This day the noble Lord Ossory a hoysted the Reare Adm11 blew flagg on bord the St. Michael.

19. This Monday morning, about 3 aclock, being at anchor still, the wind at E.N.E1., we designed to weigh, but, bloweing fresh, we rode fast all this day.

20. This Tuesday, at 3 in the morneing, being alaramed by seavrall gunns from the eastwards, we fired a gunn and put out a light in the mainetopmast shrowds, our signall of weighing, but did not weigh by reason of the ebb tyde, the wind being at S.E*. We had intelligence, by a sloop, of 70 saile of Hollanders seene on the back of ye Goodwin, and w^out the S° Sands Head; but proved to be, by our 2d intelligence by the litle Greyhound, a fleet of Ham- burghers of 26 saile only. This forenoone we weighed with all the fleet; stood to the southwards; at noone tackt; litle wind. We anchored about 2 aclock, ye Nesse light howse N. by E., in 21 fadoms, 7 miles distance. This day his Highnes the Prince dyned on bord the Conte d'Estrees, who struck his flagg as soone as the Prince was on bord him, and the Prince's Jack flagg hoysted up at mainetop- mast head; and, whilst the Prince remaind on bord him, his flagg (I meane ye Conte d'Estrees) was kept furld. Towards evening the Hamburg18 fleet plyed by us to the wVards ; gave us many gunns in saluts. Ye wind, since 4 in the afternoone, at W.S.W. and W*. This night we rode fast.

21. This 21 day, Wedensday morneing, at 4 aclock, we wayed w* the whole fleet; wind at W. by N°., a fine fresh gale. By 10 aclock the wind came to ye S.W1. We steered away on the back of the Goodwin. About 4, afternoone, we anchored in 10 fadom watter,

* Thomas Butler, Earl of Ossory.

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on the flatts of the N° Forland, the lighthouse beareing W by S. southerly, about 6 miles distant.

22. This Thursday morneing we wayed by 5 aclock; steered away E. by N°. and E.N.E*. to goe cleare of the showld of the Falls; a the wind at S.W., a fine gale. After we had gote without ye Falls, we hauled up E. b. S. and E.S.E.; a fresh gale at S.W. About 4 in the afternoone we made the coast of Flaunders. At 6, evening, we anchored in 15 fadoms watter, Oostend spire steeples beareing S.E. by S°, 5 leagues distant. This evening we saw the Dutch fleet, part of them ; they rode in Schonvelt. Our scout gave us ace1 they were but 86 saile, the outside, small and great. They wayed and turned up amongst ye bancks towards the Weelings.

23. This Fryday morneing, by 6 aclock, ye flood being done, we wayed; wind at S.S.W., litle wind. We stood in; drew our ships into a lyne of batayle. Our squadron ledd the van, the French in the midle, and ye blew squadron in the reare. We sayled and drove soe farr to the N.E. wards that we brought Oostend steeples south easterly, about 5 leagues or six leagues of. Anchored in 1 1 fadom watter, within the oyster bancks. Ye Dutch fleet, ye n°most, bore E.N.E.; and ye southmost E1, southerly from us, about 3 leagues. This night have had but litle wind at S.S.W. and S.W'.

24. This Satuarday morneing we intended, if the should watter hindred not, to goe in wth our fleet and set upon the Dutch ; sending a party of 35 men of warr, 13 fire ships, and 24 tenders ahead of us, to make the onsett, and we wth the whole fleet to have seconded them. But this our intention was this day prevented by God Almighty's providence, the wind bloweing very hard at S.W. and W'.S.W1. This morneing came in to the fleet the Soveraigne, Victory, and Dyamond, out of the river of Thames. Yesterday our scouts gave us ace* that ye Dutch fleet, of all sorts that could be told, did not exceed 84. All this day the wind hath blowne very hard at S.W. and W.S.W.; forct us strick our yard, and some ships both topmast and yard.

a A long narrow shoal off the North Foreland.

CAMD; soc. E

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25. This Sonday the wind hath blowne very hard at W.S.W1.; forct us in ye afternoone to strick our topmasts and get our sprit- saile yard under the boltsprit. This day severall of the French ships broke from ther ground tackle, but brought up againe wth other anchors and rode fast.

26. This Monday, in the forenoon, the wind continued bloweing hard at W.S.W., as did also the night past, but not so violently as the day formerly. In the afternoone the wind dullered. We sett our topmasts and got up or yards ; our neighbours the Dutch did the like also. Toward evening indiferent faire weather.

27. This Tuesday the wind hath bine from the S.W*. back to ye S.E1., wth very thick weather, and then veered to the N.W*., wth some tymes very thick [weather] and raine and wind ; all this day very unconstant weather. This afternoone we spread our red flagg for the severall divissions drawne out of the fleet to get themselves into a body for the first onsett upon the enemy ; but did not weigh ourselves. Our party out of our squadron anchored to leewards of us, and neere half way betweene ye Dutch fleet and ours. This day ye standard was spread for the flagg oficers. When come on bord, twas resolved that tomorrow, about 10 in the morning, the flood being done and faire weather, that we weigh and atacque the Dutch fleet now rideing in the Schoonvelt, steereing with an easey saile upon them; and, in case they go in to Flushing, then to anchor in their places; and, that they stand of into sea, to stand out with them.

28. This Wedensday morneing, being indiferent faire weather, we prepared our ship ; gote upp our sheat anchor, slung our yards, &c. The wind at west, a fresh gale. By 10 aclock we gote up our anchor, and made sayle. Brave weather; wind at W. b. IS", and W.N.W*. We wth our squadron steered N.E. b. E. wth the north end of the Dutch fleet, ye French wth the body, and ye blew squadron wth the south part of them. To 11 aclock thay rode most of them fast at anchor, not so much as ther fore topsailes loose. About 12 at noone we bore downe upon the Dutch and ingaged ther van, and the French in the body, our blew squadron in the reare. We fought

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till twas darke, tacking to and againe in the Schoon Velt. What certaine damage we did the enemy we cannot tell. This night we sailed and drove out againe ; came into 6 fadom watter on ye oyster . banck. By day light we were gote 3 leagues without the Schoon Velt.

29. This Thursday morneing we anchored in 13 fadom watter by our judgement, S. b. Efc. from Oostend, 6 or 7 leagues of. This day y6 Prince called a councill of flagg oficers. Ordered, that ye respective flaggs call ther divissions on bord and take ace* of what damages recd yesterday in the bataile. This day the wind blew very hard at S.W*. ; forct us to strick our topmasts and yards and veere out our shot of cable 2J without bord. This afternoone, about 3 aclock, the Prince sent away a packet for Whitehall, by whome I wrote for London.

30. This Fryday the wind blew very hard, most part of the day, at S.W*. and W.S.W*. Towards evening lesse wind. We got up our topmasts.

31. This Satuarday forenoone, foggy weather; afternoone, very faire weather; the wind at N.E1. This day the Prince tooke reso- lution to shift shipps, ours being so tender that we could not beare out our lower tire of gunns in the late bataile.

June 1. This Sonday, ye first day of June, the Dutch fleet many of them were under saile, but came not. out to us. We gote up our anchor and came to saile wth all the fleet, but anchored againe and birth't our selves in our anchoring posture agreed on, to say: the flaggs to ride N. and south of each other, 4 cables length distant; and the ships of the severall divissions to ride N.W. and S.E. from there flaggs, 2 cable length distant of one side and the other; the flagg ships as they are ranged in ther line of bataile. This day we struck some broken gunns down into hold, and some whole, to the number of tenn, to stiffen our ship if posible.

2. This Monday the wind blowes very fresh at N.E., and did so all the last night and the day before. This day the Prince resolved to shift his ship and goe on bord the R. Soveraigne.

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3. This Tuesday evening his Highnes the Prince went on bord the Soveraigne. I and Capt. Young a followed him, and this night lay on bord her.

4. This Wedensday morneing, very early, I went on bord the E. Charles to shift the men. Chose out 250 men to come on bord the Soveraigne.

JOURNALL IN THE R. SOVERAIGNE, JtJNE, 1673.

This 4th day of June, Wedensday, before noone, the Dutch fleet, then rideing in Schoonvelt, all wayed and came to saile and came out to us. We wayed with our fleet; put ourselves in the best posture we could ; but, makeing saile, we gote ahead next the blew squadron, leaveing most of the French in the reare, with our Vice Admirall. Betwixt 4 and 5 aclock the Dutch fleet — Trump in the van, De Eutter in the body — bore downe towards us (the wind at K.E*., a very fresh gale). We ingaged till twas darke, more then £ range of our shot distant. We kept our lufe ; they did likewise the same; would not come close to us. What damage we did them wo know not. On our parts we lost 2 fire ships; shatterd our ships, many of them, in hull, masts, yards, and rigging. Comdrs killed were : Capt. White of the Warspight, and Capt. Sadleton of the Crowne.b What number of men slaine in the fleet, know not. This night we stood to the northwards with our foresaile and mainetop- sailes only. Most of the Dutch fleet, at 12 aclock at night, tackt away from us; the remainder tackt after them at 2 aclock.

5. Betwixt 4 and 5 we tackt of after them; stood of wth 2 top- sailes; put out our Jack flagg. Called a council of warr to know the condition of our fleet ; found our ships to be shatred in our masts and rigging, not to be repaired in the sea; our powder and shot the greatest part spent in two batailes. Haveing no shot in the fleet for

* Henry Young.

b Richard White and Richard Sadlington.

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recrute, twas resolved by the Prince, for the more expedition (sic) fitting the fleet out againe, to saile for the buoy of the Nore. We tackt; stood in for the shore, seeing Laistoforland.a Stood away alongst the shore, wthout the sands called Alborough knapes. The wind at N.E., we steered away S.W. by S., haveing an ebb tyde to goe without the Shipwash.b The flood comeing upon us sett us in so neare ye Sheepewash, that we were within a mile and a halfe of itt. We hauld of south, and, after we were about that sand, we steered up the Swine.c After 8 at night we anchored in 13 fadom watter, above the Gunflit at least 2 miles. All the fleet likewise anchored.

6. This Fryday morneing the wind came to the S.W. ; litle wind. We wayed to plye up, and plyed the tyde to an end. Anchored about 2 miles belowe the Midle Ground buoy,d in 8 fadom watter.

7. This Satuarday, 8 in the morning, we wayed; wind at W*. and W. b. N. We turned up as high as the Oase Edge buoy ; e there anchored and rode all night.

8. This Sonday, wind at east, we wayed and ran up to the buoy of the Nore. There anchored, about a mile below the buoy.

9. This Monday the wind blew very hard at E* and E.S.E*, with raine ; forct us to strick our topmasts and yards. The wind hath blowne very hard all this day, and vered back to the E.N.E*.

10. This Tuesday, wind came to tho north. Slaby weather and cold ; bloweing a fresh gale.

11. This Wedensday wind at N.W*. and north. This day the King and Duke came on bord us. At night, after they had supt, went on bord ther yachts.

12. This Thursday the wind at E4 to S.E*. Tho King came

a Lowestoft Ness.

b The Shipwash sand-bank off the mouth of the Deben.

c The King's Channel or East Swin, running down east of the Gunfleet sands, off the Essex shore.

d The Middle Ground shoal lies at the mouth of the Thames, some miles below the Nore, on the Kentish side of the river.

c The Oaze Edge shoal near the Middle Ground, but on the Essex side.

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out Sheerenes about noone and dyned on bord us. This evening his Majty and Duke of Yorke tooke there leave of us and went in ther yachts to London.

13. This Fryday the wind blew hard at E.N.E*. This day we were falcely allarum'd by the Holmes frig1* comeing up from the Gunflet wtb topgalant sails flying and fired gunns, uppon a certaine, or rather uncertaine, intelligence that 19 or 20 saile of Butch men of warr were scene wtbout the Gallaper. All this day it hath blowne very hard, wth some raine.

14. This Satuarday morneing, about 5 aclock, his Highnes Prince Rupert went up the river in our barge for Black Heath. The wind at S.E1. This day Sr John Harman, upon the receipt of a packet from Whitehall, called a councill of warr. There ordered to send downe 7 or 8 frigtts and as many fireships, to ride twixt the Oase Edge and Redd Sand,* and the rest to birth themselves N.N.E. and S.S.W. one of each other, at ye Nore.

15. This Sonday the wind hath bine from north toW.S.W.; little wind till evening. It then blew hard, westerly. This day we had intelligence, by a Hellicar land b dogger, that 17 saile of Dutch men of warr were rideing without the Gonflitt. Yesterday he was on bord them.

16. This Monday the wind hath bine at W*. bloweing fresh. Towards evening the wind came to the S.S.W1. This day I sent up the Barbabella wth our empty caske to London. Tookeing (sic) aship of beere about 60 ts.

17. This Tuesday wind at S.E.; faire weather ; I sent Bassets hoy up to Chatham againe for stores.

18. This Wedensday morning wind at south and S.E*. I went into ye Swale, to setle our muster booke of the R. Charles.

19. This Thursday wind at north and N.W1.; some tyme badd weather.

20. This Fryday we tooke on bord 16ts. of watter. The wind

a The Red Sand lies between the Ooze Edge and the Middle Ground, b Heligoland.

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In the afternoone the

hath bine at north and back to W.S.W*. weather.

21. This Satuarday the wind at S.W. Prince returned on bord againe.

22. This Sonday wind southerly. The Prince went into Sheere- nes.

23. This Monday wind at S.S.W. to W.N.W1.; sometymes bad weather. This day ye Prince went on shore on Essex side ; came on bord againe at noone. This day severall of our fleet came "out Sheerenes.

29. To this Sonday we have had the winds southerly to the west ; some 3 days badd weather. Have bine dispatching our ships out Sheerenes, and takeing in our provissions. The Dutch fleet rideing in the Slade Way and at the Gonflitt since Wedensday. This night his Highnes ye Prince lay on bord the Monmouth yacht.

NAVAL OPERATIONS, 1652 — 1673; WITH OBSERVATIONS BY CAPTAIN EICHARD HADDOCK.

Year.	Mo.	D.		Observations.
1652	June*	19	Fight in Downes between	Gen1 Blake comanded. Fight
			English and Dutch.	to the w*ward off Dover.
	Sept.	5	French fleet beat by En-	Gen1 Blake comanded.
			glish.
	Nov.	15»>	Blake worsted by Dutch.	True; and retired to the Buoy
				of the Nore over the Flats.
	Feb.	18,19,20	Fight near Portland.	True. Blake, Deane, and
			Dutch beaten.	Monck. Gen1 Blake and
				Deane in the Tryumph ;
				Monk in the Vanguard.
				Blake wounded.
			English worsted in Le-	True. Cap* Rd Balilo com-
			vant by Dutch.	anded.

a A mistake for May. b On the 29th November, broom at his mast-head.

It was after this action that Van Tromp hoisted the

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NAVAL OPERATIONS, 1652-1673 — continued.

Year.	Mo.	D.		Observations.
1652	June	a	Dutch beaten.	Deane and Monk Genu. Deane
				killed.
'53	July	29,30	Fight between English	True. Dutch beaten. Gen1
			and Dutch.b	Monk only comanded. Trump
				killed, and his flag shot down.
'64	Dec.	30 c	Fleet off Portsmouth took	True. Brought into Portsm0
			112 Dutch prizes,	and afterwards made prizes.
'65	Apr1	20	De Ruyter attempted	True.
			Berbadoes; and beaten.
	May	30	Hamburgh fleet taken by	True. Were taken with their
			Dutch.	convoy.
	June	3	Dutch beaten by ye Duke,	True. Opdam then blown up;
			and 30 capit1 ships	the rest taken and burnt.
			taken and destroyed.
	Aug.	16	Dutch Smerna Streights	True; and was forced away by
			East India ships at-	the Danes and Dutch, who
			tacqu'd by Kr Adm1	landed ther gnns, contrary to
			Tiddimand in Bergen.	the concert between the two
				Crowns of England and Den-
				mark.6
	Sept.	4	2 East India and sev1	True ; and two men-of-war
			merch* ships taken by	then taken by Sprag in the
			E. of Sandwich.	R1 James, formerly called
				the Richard.
	»	9	18 s1 of Dutch beaten, and	True.
			greatest part taken
	Feb.	8	Dutch chas'd intoWeilings	True.
			by Myngsf
'66	June	1	Duke Albem* engaged 90 s1 of Dutch on coast of	Fought 3 days. Then came Prince Rupert in the Rl
			Flanders.	James, wth the squadron w°h
				had been to the westw4 to
				look out for Beaufort from
				Toulon. Were sent for back.
				Ye 3d day, Sonday, on our
				retreat, the R1 Prince was
				lost on the Galliper; set on

a On the 2nd and 3rd June, off the North Foreland.

b Off the Dutch coast.

c Before declaration of war, in retaliation for attacks by the Dutch on the colonies.

d Sir Thomas Tiddiman, or Teddiman.

e The Governor of Bergen not having yet received the instructions from his Government and refusing to admit the English fleet.

f Sir Christopher Mings ; died of wounds received in the action of 1st June.

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NAVAL OPEEATIONS, 1652-1673— continued.

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Year.	Mo.	D.		Observations.
1666	June	4,5,6	Dutch beaten.	fire. The Swiftsure taken
				by the Dutch. The 4th day
				both fleets retird : Prince
				Rupert and Duke of Albe-
				marle to the Nore, the Dutch
				to their own coast.
n	July	25,26	Dutch beateu by Prince	The Dutch run home to their
			Rupert and Dk Albe-	harbours.
			marle.
„	Aug*	7	Sr R* Holmes burnt 150	True. Sr R* Holmes went in
			Dutch in ye Fly.	the Tyger wth the Dragon
				and some fireships and
				ketches. Burnt 3 men of
				war that were in the Fly
				amongst the number. After-
				wards burnt the town of
				Brandros a before he went
				out
ft	Dec.	25	Robinson b took and de-	True. It was in his return
			stroyed 3 Dutch men	from Gottenburgh, whither
			of warr near ye Texell.	he was sent to convoy home
				a great fleet laden with
				naval stores.
1667	April	30	Dutch attempted Burnt	True, I beleive.
			Isleand in Scotland
			and beaten of.
H	June	11°	12 Dutch taken and 2	True.
			sunck near Norway.
tt	June	20	Rich Dutch East India	True. Taken by Sr Jeremy
			ship, 74 guns, taken.	Smyth in his sayling about
				Scotland to Ireland.
,.	June	25	Sr Jno. Harman wth 16	True.
			Engl. men of warr en-
			gaged 30 French near Martinego ; burnt and
M		26	destroyed most of them. 8 Dutch prizes with masts	True, I beleiye.
			and deals taken.
M	July	19	Dutch attempt4 Torbay,	True.
			but beaten off.
„		23	23 Dutch make up y6
			Thames.

* Bandaris in the island of Schelling. b Sir Robert Robinson.

c The day that the Dutch were in the Medway. CAMD. SOC. F

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NAVAL OPEBATIONS, 1652-1673— continued.

Year.	Mo.	D.		Observations.
1667	July	24	Fought by Spragg near	True. He forc't 'em out of
			ye Hope and retire.	the River, after having
				burnt and taken 12 sayle
				of their fireships; and we
				lost but one of our 12. So
				forct them down the King's
				channel below the Middle,*
				. having but 6 men of war
				and 12 fireships. Sr Joseph
				Jordain came from Harwich
				in a smal man of war with
				sev1 colliers made fireships.
				We rode then at Lee Road.b
				Dutch at the Nore. Wind
				blew hard easterly. Did no
				execution on the Dutch.
»	Aug*	3	De Kuyter attempts y6 Virginia fleet.	True, bnt did no execution on ym-
tt		24	Six Engl., cruiseing	I beleive it true, but know not
			northwa, fought a	of it.
			sqnadron of Dutch
			and took 3.
71	May	10	10 Algerines burnt at Bugia by Sr Ed.	True. The boom was first cut by Capt. Harman,6 that co-
			Spragg.	manded the boats
it	July	5	Sr Christophr restor'd by
			the French.
'72	Mar.	14	SrR4 Holmes fought ye	True ; but 'twas not for re-
			Dutch refusing to	fusing to strike.
			strike.
n	May	28	Fight wth ye whole Dutch	True. In that fight the R1
			Fleet off Southwold	James was burnt, after she
			bay.	had quitted herself of Brac-
				kel,d a Dutch 70 gun ship, that
				lay athwort her hawse, which she took ; and being disabled
				gave opportunity of a fire-
				ship clapping her aboard.
»	Dec.	20	Tobago Island taken	True.
			from ye Dutch.

a The Middle, a shoal off Foulness, between the West Swin and the East Swin or King's Channel.

b Near the mouth of the Thames, off the village of Lee on the Essex side.

0 Thomas Harman.

d Adrian Brackell, the captain of the Dutch man-of-war.

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NAVAL OPERATIONS, 1652-1673 — continued.

Year.	Mo.	D.		Observations.
72	Dec.	3.1	S* Hellena taken by ye	True.
			Dutch.
'73	May	6	S* Hellena retaken by	True.
			Capt. Monday.
5.«	May	28	Engl. Fleet engage ye	True. Fought in ye Schon-
			Dutch and force them	velt.
			to retreat.
»	June	4	2d engagem* wth ye Dutch	True. Fought ye Dutch on
			on y6 coast.	yr coast, but stood over to
				our own all that battle. The
				next morn we tackt on the
				Dutch: but they stood away
				for their own coast ; and we
				stood back and came to the
				Nore after 2 battles in eight
J>	Aug.	11	3d victory against ye	d&ys. Fought the Dutch ; but no
			Dutch by Pr Rupert.	great victory. The French declined fighting, and fleet retired to the Nore some
				time after. Sr Edwd Sprag
				then drownd. R1 Prince's
				mainm1 shot down ; had like
				to have been burnt.

WILLIAM BRANDON TO SIR RICHARD HADDOCK.

Portsm0 Victuall* Office, July 24th, 1688.

HoNble Sr,

The last post brought a news letter to this place, wherein are these words: It is reported that Sr Richd Haddock, Capt. Penny- man, and severall other seamen, are gone for Holland; wch are lookt upon heere as a verry greate reflection upon your Honr3 that cannott without ingratitude and breach of duty omit acquainting you with itt and the author's name, wch is Edmond Sawkell, att

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the Generall Post Office. I have and shall vindicate your HonT to my outmost power; and begg leave to subscribe myself

Yor Honre Most humble and obedient serv4,

Wm BRANDON.

To the Honble Sr Richd Haddock, Kn*, one of the Commre for Victualling his Maj'J* Navy, att the office on Tower Hill, London, These.

SIR KICHARD HADDOCK TO PHILIP FROWD.a

Tower Hill, London, this 29th July, 1688.

sr,

The last weeke, in a news lettr wrote by a serv1 of yours, one Mr. Edmd Sawkell, there is a scandallous reflection on my honr and reputation, by his writeing that Sr Rd Haddock wth seuerall other seamen were gone into Holland, wch I have recd acct of sd letter from 3 or 4 countys, and must beleive it hath flowne all the kingdome over.

Sr, I was this day to waite on you at yr post ofice ; but, haveing ace1 given me that you were in the country, thought fitt, before I spake wth Mr. Sawkill, to give you notice hereof, and y1 you will ready lie conclude I shall expect satisfaction from him for this scan- dall, at least y1 he finds out his author or else must conclud him to be the inventor himselfe. I do presume you know me so well as to beleive, however the King may please to deale wth me (wch hetherto hath bine extra kind), I shall never forsake my loyalty and duty to him, even to my last breath. Praying a lyne or two in answer, with great respect, I remaine

Your very afecte servant,

Rd H.

To JN. (sic) FROWD, ESQ.

Postmaster- General .

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CAPTAIN JOSEPH HADDOCK TO HIS BROTHER, SIR RICHARD HADDOCK.

Abord the Ship Princess of Denmark, 17th Xber, 1688. Balasore Roade.

Sr RICH* HADDOCK.

MY EVER HONd BROTHER,

My last, of the 7th Aug* from Visagapatam, gave yor Honr ace' of our arrivall Madras and of our affaires to that tyme. The 10th Aug* we saild thence for Balasore, wher we arriv'd the 15th; in wch bay we have contd and rid out the monsoone, wch has prov'd favour- abler then expected (beinge leape yeare).

The 15th 7ber Cap1 Heath arriv'd this place, who, fyy virtue of the President and Counsell of Madras order requir'd my goeinge up wth hime to Chuttynuttea in the river of Hugly (the place where our Agent and factorie resided), myselfe wth tjie rest of the com and" of the Europe Shipps then in the river to assist hime in the Rfc Honble Comp3 affairs. b In fews days after our getting up to Chuttynutte, a letter was writ to the Nabob of Dacca (the cheife govenr of that citty), who had formerly requested our Agent that if we would assist hime wtb ships to transport soulders and horss from Chottagam to Arraccan (they beinge in warrs wth that Kinge), he would give us his Pharwanna c of a settlem* of trade, wth preva- ledges as formerly accordinge to the 12 articles formerly sent hime from our agent &c. Capt. Heath, in the letter sent, condesended to

* Chuttanuttee, now Calcutta.

b Early in 1686 the Company fitted out an expedition to retaliate on the Nawab of Bengal for past injuries, and to attempt to seize Chittagong. But before the arrival of the forces a premature quarrel with the natives forced the English to abandon Hoogly and retire to Chuttanuttee. In Sept. 1687, a truce was patched up, but the Company was not satisfied. An armament was despatched under com- mand of Heath. The result was the attack on Balasore, as told in this letter, an abortive attempt on Chittagong, and the abandonment of the Company's factories in Bengal.— See Mill's Hist, of British India, book i. chap. v.

e Earwana, the licence granted by a viceroy; as distinguished from a firman, granted by a sovereign.

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the Nabob's request, in suplyinge hime wth 10 ships and vessells for the Mogull's occations, to transport ther soulders and horss, pro- vided they would allow of the buildinge of a fortyfiction wthin the river of Hugly, for the better security of the K* Honble Comp9 estate and serts; wthout wch grant of a fortyfied place the Comp8 ord" possitive are, to wthdraw off all our factory from this place.

We continued heere 5 weeks for the Nabob's answer to the proposal! : but not comeing, we, haveinge taken off all the Honble Comp8 concernes from the shoare, saild from Chuttynty the 8th 9ber, and passed by ther fortts peaceably. At our arrival Balasore found that the govenr of the towne had (some tyme before our comeinge) detaind the R* Honble Comp8 goods, beinge this yeares investmte, alsoe partic, mens goods ; and would not permit none of the factors, nor our people that were ashoure buying provisions], to come off. Cap1 Heath sent 2 of our factors wth a letter to the govenr (who was come downe to the bancksall, or point of sand goeinge into the river, wher he was makeinge a forty fication) , to demand the R1 Honbe Comp8 goods wth all our men. His answer was, what he did was by order from the Nabob ; and, if he did dilliver our goods and men, should loose his head. 3 days after, 2 of the factors were againe sent to aquaint the govenr that our intention was to depart out these parts peaceable, we haveinge come away out Hugly river wthout doeinge any act of hostillity to any of the Mogull's subjects; therfore requird hime to send off our goods and people by faire meanes ; if not, we would have them by force of armes. Wch hee not permitting them too goe off, the next day all our soulders, about 320, and upwards 240 seamen were put into the small vessels and all our boates; and early next morninge they landed a mile to the W.ward of the fort (wch the govnr had rais'd) ; against wcb landinge place they had planted 5 small guns on a sandhill, wch they dis- charg'd at our men, and killd 2 and wounded 2 more; soe fled from the guns. And soone after, the cheife cap1 of our soulders had drawne all the soulders and seamen in order of battalia, marcht up to the fort, wch, at ther aproach, fired all ther guns they had

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planted to the land ; but, soone after, the govenr and all his men fleed out the fort wthout doeing much harme to our men ; the wch we possest wthout any farther opposition. In and about this fort they had upwards 40 guns mounted and a good wall made wth timber and clay ; might have bine sufficient (if manag'd by Europeans) to [have] wth stood a great armie of men, or at least done much more mischief then they did.

The govenr, after deserted his fort, made all hast possable up to Balasore towne, and orderd the factory house (in wch were confind all our people, thirteene in number) to be sett on fire. Our people in the house defended themselves bravely, killinge sev1 of the Moors ; but by the firsness of the fire were forct to surrender them- selves on tearmes to have ther lives and good useage. The next day Capt. Heath (who went ashoare wth the soulders — Cap* Sharpe comanded the small vessells and boates that were to goe over the barr, leaveinge mee in comand of the ships in the roade) went up with all the soulders and seamen to Balasore towne by watter and landed short of old Balasore fort, the wch they soone tooke; soe marcht into the towne, few or noe people beinge left to oppose them ; the govenr disertinge it at ther comeinge, caryinge wth hime all our English, amongst wch are 3 of our ships compa, viz*. Mr. Davenant (beinge ashoare buy inge provit [ions] ), Charles Scarlet, midshipman, and Sam Harbin, gunr, ser* of Capn Heath's, his pursur, and 3 more, Mr. Stanly, cheife of the factory, the rest free men that trades in the country. As yet we cannot gett the govenr to give ther releasem*. We have sent sev1 messingers to hime, that we have not burnt ther towne nor ships, expectinge he would dilliver up our men; but, if not, we will returne and doe both. Our soulders (but seamen more espetially) have comitted many inhuemane actions in the towne, plundringe not only Moors but sev1 Portugeese houses, and killed sev1 innocent people. We have had the greatest loss in this axtion, viz*. 4 men killd and 3 wounded. Ther names are: Mr. Starland, 3d mate, Henry Grove, cheife trumpetter, Christopher Hogg, and Jn° Hinton, who very indis-.

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erectly went out wth sev1 more seamen to a garden house, expect- inge great plunder, were cut off, sev1 of them, by a party of horss. The 3 wounded are Henry Roxby, Fran8 Johnson, and Jn° Smart.

I have, by the Williamson (by whom this is alsoe intended you), sent Sr Hen1"? Johnson and Sr Tho. Rawlinson, and alsoe to my wife, a list of our dead &ca men, in all 44. Our supernumery men wc^ I brought out of England, beinge 27, at my arivali Madras, I aquaintd the President therwth, who offred them to Cap. Brom- well, the Eotchester haveinge lost most of ther men. But he refuseinge to pay the charge the Honble Compa were at sendinge them out, they were not taken out ther; and what of them that are alive doe still remaine in our ship, not beinge demanded here by the agent. I supose our owners will be alowed for them at 50s per m°, noe longer then our departure Madras, to wch tyme we had lost 30 men. I doe not repent ther continueinge abord, haveinge had soe great mortolaty and most of them the best of our seamen.

I supose our next enterprize will be towards Chottagam, a place neere the coast of Arraccan. The R-1 Honble Compa possative orders are for endeavouringe the takinge it ; but 1 feare we shall not have strength sufficient to effect it, the Nabob haveinge sent many thou- sand of [men] this yeare ther to over run and take the kingdome of Arracan. The king of that country beinge some tyme since dead, part of the people are in rebelion against the present goverm1; by whch its supos'd the Mogullers will goe farr in takeing that country this yeare, and we frustrated of our designe.

Honble Sir, I have not writt to any of owners (except the 2 in charty party), beleivinge we shall returne to Madras before the Williamson sailes for England. Our ship is in a very good condition and very thite. I beleive our stay in India will be the extreme of our tyme, for at present noe prospect of a freight for Europe; and I feare the brave trade of Bengali will be lost, at whch the Dutch and French rejoyce, that this trade may wholy fall to them.

I have not elce to add ; only please to present my duty, respects,

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and love to all our deere relations and freinds. Thus, wth my due respects to yor selfe and my good lady sister, doe remaine, Honble Sr, yor affectionate bro. and SerS whilst

Jo8 HADDOCK.

Sr I recd yor letter, alsoe one from my wife sent per the Defence ; and returne my humble thancks for it.

For the HonWe Sr Richd Haddock, at his house on Tower Hill. Present. London.

Pr the Williamson,

Capt. Ashby, Comand', D.G.

RICHARD HADDOCK* TO HIS FATHER, SIR RICHARD HADDOCK.

Aprill" y* 23d [1692] ; Munday, in ye Hooke.' HONOURD Sr,

This is to acquaint of our ingaging wth ye French and of our haveing gott ye victory. Wee mett ym of sea, May 19. There was about 60 saile. Wee fought ym from 11 to 9 att night ; since wob, have been in pursuit of ym. There is run ashoare, in Sherbrook bay, Torveild wth 3 more capitall ships, wch are now burned. Cozen Tom Heath e burnt Tor veil ; and have chased 14 saile more in ye Hooke, where wee now are. Sr Cloudsly Shovel is goeing in wth ye 3d rates and fire-ships to destroy ym. Wee have been soe un-

a Afterwards Comptroller of the Navy. See Preface.

b A slip of the pen for May.

• " The Hooke " and " Sherbrook," nautical English for La Hogne and Cher- bourg.

d Tourville fought in the great three-decker "Royal Sun," the largest vessel afloat.

« Afterwards captain of the Chester. Died in the West Indies in 1693.

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fortunate as [to] lose Rear Adm11 Carter a in ye fight. I am very well and have received no wound; only a small splinter hitt mee on ye thigh, but did no damage, only made itt black and blew. I would write more particularly, but ye vessell I heare is goeing away pre- sently ; soe, haveing no more att present, butt duty to your self and my mother,

I remain your dutyfull Son,

Ricnd HADDOCK.

Cozen Ruffin is alive and very well. I will write ye particulars of our fight as soon as wee come into any port.

RdH.

For ST Richd Haddock, att y6 Navy Office, in Crntched Fryers, London.

ISABELLA CmcHELEYb TO SIR RICHARD HADDOCK.

Wedensday night, the 4 July, [16] 94.

Your good nature, Sr, hath drawne upon you the gossupin of a company of women. My sisters desire we may drink e our punch with you to-morrow in the evening, about six aclocke, if it is not inconvenient to you. I should have sent to you to day, but was prevented. However, Sr, it may yett be ajorned for longer time, if you are othere wise disposed. The docters are sending me to Tunbridge ere long, soe that a warm foundation before drinking those cold waters will not [be] amisse for, Sr,

Your oblidged, humble servant,

ISABELLA CHICHELEY.

For Sr Rich. Haddocke, These.

a " Carter was the first who broke the French line. He was struck by a splinter of one of his own yard-arms, and fell dying on the deck. He would not let go his sword. 'Fight the ship,' were his last words; 'fight the ship as long as she can swim.' " — Macaulay, Hut. of England, chap, xviii.

b Probably related to Admiral Sir John Chicheley.

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SIR KICHARD HADDOCK TO HIS SON KICHARD.

Navy Office, this 27th Novr, 1702.

DEARE SON,

I have yors of yesterday's date, from the Downes, wch brings us the joy full tydeings of yor safe arrivall there. Yor long passage from Newfoundland put us in great feare of your wellfare, and per- ticularly your mor hath bine for a month or 5 weekes crying for you and yor brother Nics safety; but blessed be God you are both come well home. Your bror now with us came up from the Downes by leave from his Captn, and hath behaved himself with so much bravery and couradge that he hath gained the good report of the Duke of Ormond, his Captn, <&c., both in the action at Eotta and St. Mary Port,a and Vigo, and was the first man that borded one of the gallions at Vigo,b wch is come home. I do not find by yor letter that you were wth your Comodore at the takeing and destroying the French shipps to the southwards of Trepassa,c and consequently you will not come in for your share of that capture. The news papers tells us yor prize is got into Plyrn0, and for your boate wth 5 men you say you left behind at Plyrn0 we never heard anything of it, wch gives you trouble; and because you write not of my Coz Wm's d wellfare, I am conscernd for feare he might be in that boate. To morrow morning I intend to go to ye Admty and endeavor you may come into the River, if his R. Highness orders your cleaneing.

God Allmighty hath blest ye forces of her Maj^ and her Allies,

a In the expedition against Cadiz, the Duke of Ormond effected a landing at Kota at the north end of the Bay of Cadiz, on the 15th August, and occupied Puerto de Santa Maria, on the east of the Bay, six days afterwards.

b The attack on the shipping in Vigo took place on the 12th October.

c Trepassey, in Newfoundland.

d This is probably the William Haddock noticed by Charnock, Biographia JTavalis, iv. 44, who died in 1726. He may have been the son of Richard Haddock, Sir Richard's uncle.

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both by land and sea, in a wonderfull manner; for wch we lately had a publick day of thanksgiveing in this citty. The Queene, House of Lords and Comons, wth the Bishops, Judges, &c. came to S* Paul's Church, where, after sermon, Te Deum was sung.

Since your leaveing England, two of our bord are dead, viz*. Mr. Sotherne and my good freind Comr Willshaw,* who dyed ye 23d Sepr last. My Coz Anna Babb, that was in one of our almes houses at Stepny, is likewise dead, and my poore Cozn Lockwood's son in law, Cozn Hodges, dyed lately at Gosport, since his arrivall from Cadix and Vigo, who waited a tender on ye Duke of Ormond's shipp. We are all in good health, praised be God, and do kindly salut you. I am your most afection* father,

Rd HADDOCK.

Pray let me know how yor shipp proves. I have concernd my aelfe to get one of ye 4th rates building at Deptford for you, and this day spake to Sr Geo. Rooke about it, and formerly to ye other 3 Councill of ye Lord High Admu. I know she is tender by your reifeing your courses ; and twas well hinted in yours to ye Adrrry. I am glad you past by Plyrn0. Orders went thither some tyme since to cleane you and severall of yor consarts. Rd H.

On Her Majesty's Service. To Captn Richard Haddock,

Comandr of her Majfy Shipp the Reserve,

these present, In ye Downes.

THE SAME TO THE SAME.

Navy Office, this 10th Decembr, 1703.

MY DEARE SON,

Your letter of the 17th Novr past, giveing me ace1 of the unhapy disaster of your ship being run ashore by a Dutch pilot and of your happy getting off againe, I recd 3 or 4 ds. after its date ; but, hope-

a Thomas Willshaw, Commissioner of the Navy and Master of the Trinity House.

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ing you might have gote away before an answer could arrive you, I forbore answering it to you to Helvoet Sluce. I have just now recd yours of the 7th instant, Tuesday, and, to our great joy, the ace* of God Almighty's wonderfull preservation of you in the late most dreadfull storm,* wcb no man liveing can remember the like. I per- seave you have had an ace* of the most sad and lamentable efects of it heere in England, not only in the losse of our shipp[ing], but about 1500 men in the Queen's shipps. I shall not eneumerate ye perticulars of the losse, only that Capt. Emes,b wth his wife and son and all ye men in ye Restauration, lost on ye Goodwin, and poore Tom Blake drowned at Bristoll in ye Canterbury store ship cast away. The Dorcetshire we have ace* of her being on ye back of Yarrn0 Sands, cruseing, I supose for want of anchors and cables, and hope ye Association is cruseing in the sea on the like occasion. My deare son Xic° hapend to be sick on bord her, as Sr S. Fairebone b wrote me from the Downes. I sent Tom Apleby imediatly to Deale to bring him up ; but the ship sailed ye morning before he gote downe. I hope he will come well home to us. Pray God the Russell may be got of ye sands and into Helvoet Sluce.

Wee haue 7 or 8 vessells wth anchors and cables in Harwch or Oasely bay, ready to put to sea when we heare where Sr Stafford is. Sr Cloud. Shovell I hope now safe at the Nore ; his mainemast cut downe after he had drove 3 leag3 from ye Longsd, very neare the Galloper. Ye S* Geo. and R. Oake, now at Blackstakes, rode out ye storme wthout damage; and the Cambridge I beleive the same. The 4 ships that broke from their ground takle was the Association, Russell, Revenge, and Dorcetshire. The Revenge was in Solebay some tyme since, and furnish wth anchors and cables from ye Not- tingham and another man of warr y* went out Yarm° roads to looke for our shipps. Capt. Kerr d in ye Revenge gave ace* that he saw

a On the 26th November. b Fleetwood Emms.

c Sir Stafford Fairborne, Vice-Admiral of the Bed.

d William Kerr. Dismissed the service, in 1708, for joining in a contraband trade with the enemy.

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ye Association, Monday last was sevenight; so that we are in hope she is very well. I shall not inlarge, only to give you our kind saluts. Pray God send you wth ye King of Spaine well out that place and over to us. My harty and humble service to Sr Geo: Rooke.

I am your most afec* father,

R. H.

CAPTAIN EDWARD WHITAKER a TO SIR RICHARD HADDOCK.

Dated on board her Majties ship Dorsetshire,

in Gibralter Bay, July ye 29th [1704]. Sr,

I heare give you an acco1 of our good success, especially what has related to my own particular part. July 21st we anchor'd here in ye Bay, and about 4 in the afternoon landed about 2000 mar- rines, Dutch and all. I commanded ye landing with three cap- taines more; all which was don wth little opposition. About 40 horse came downe from ye towne, wch was all ; and they run away soe soon as our guns began to play upon them. We landed about 2 miles from the towne, in ye Bay, and march'd directly to the foot of the hill, were they posted themselves within muskett shott of the gates; so cutt of all manner of communication from ye land. We hove into ye towne this evening about 17 shells. The Prince of Hess b landed with us and immediatly sent a summons to the Governer, wch did not returne any answer tell the next morning, and then the Governer said he would defend the towne to the very last. Then Admirall Byng, who commanded the can- nonading, began to draw up all his ships in a line before the towne ; but, it proving little wind, could not gett in with them all, so

a Afterwards knighted and Rear-Admiral. This letter has been printed by Char- nock in his BiograpMa Navalis; but it is worth re-printing, b George, Prince of Hesse-Darmstadt.

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that we did little this day. There was three small ships in the old mold, one of which annoy'd our camp by fireing amongst them, having about 10 guns lying close in the mold and just under a great bastion at ye north corner of the towne. I proposed to Sr George* the burning her in the night. He liked itt; accordingly ordered what boats I would have to my assistance; and about 12 at night I did it effectually, wth the loss of but one man and o or 6 wounded.

July 23rd. At 4 this morning, Adm1 Byng began with his ships to cannonade, a Dutch Rear Adm1 with 5 or 6 ships of theirs along with him; which made a noble noise, being within half shot of the towne. My ship not being upon service, I desired Sr George to make me his aducon to carry his comands from tyme to tyme to admirall Byng, which he did accordingly ; and after about 2 hours continuall fireing sent me with orders to forbare. Upon this I went to every ship in the line wth this orders, and coming on board Capt. Jumper,b in ye Lenox, found him extraordinary well posted within muskett shott of the new mold head, and had beat them all out of ye battery and of the mold, so that I beleived we might attack it with our boats. I went immediatly and acquainted Adm1 Byng wth it, who ordered all the boats to be man'd and arm'd. From him I went to Sr George and gave him my oppinion that the mold might be attack'd. He immediatly made the signall for all the boates in ye fleet, and gave me the command of ye attack, wth 3 or 4 captaines along wth me. I made all the hast I could with orders to Admirall Byng to send me accordingly; but some of the boats got ashore before I could reach them, wth little or no opposition. Severall of our men gott into ye Castle; upon which it blew up. "We had kill'd between 40 and 50 men. Most of all the boates that landed first were sunk; about 100 or two wounded; upon which, all yl remain'd came running downe and leap'd into the water, being so mighty ly surprized. I landed within a minute

a Rooke.

b Afterwards Sir William Jumper, Commissioner of the Navy.

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after the accident, and rallied our men. We went over a breach in the wall but one at a time, and took possesstion of the hill. I immediatly sent Capt. Roffya and Capt. Acton, b wth between 40 and 50 men, and took possesstion of a bastion of 8 guns within less then half muskett shott of the towne wall; and there we pitch'd our collours. Soon after, Adm1 Byng came ashore to me and sent in a drumer wth a sommons, who returnd in about 2 hours wtb a letter in answer that they would surrender the next day ; wch they accordingly did. I beleive I had wth me, at the first onsett, between 2 and 300 men; but we grew in a very little time to neare 1000. This was the manner we took Gibralter, which I hope we shall maintaine.

I hope, Sr, youle excuse this trouble I give, butt, beleiving that every boddy here rights att this tyme uppon this occation, I could not forbeare giveing my very good friend Sr Ricd this perticuler ace" of ye whole matter; which I dont doubt butt Capt. Haddock will give ye much ye same acco". Pray please to favour my spouse with a line or two, feareing mine should miscarry. My most humble servis to my good lady and all yr good family. I beg youle make use of this as farre as you shall think fitt, itt being a trew acco" of ye whole matter. I am

Yr most harty humble Ser* and

kinsman to serve, whilst

EDwd WHITAKER.

P.S. This is rite all in a hurry, so y* I hope youle excuse me.

Kerril or Kerrit Roffey. b Edward Acton, killed in action in 1706.

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NICHOLAS HADDOCK* TO HIS FATHER SIR RICHARD HADDOCK.

S* George in Barcelona Road, this 1st of May, 1706, O.S.

HoNd Sr,

This comes to you by the Faulcon pink, which is sent home express wth the good news of our releiving Barcelona in the greatest extremity. The French had made preparations for a generall assault that very day we came; and it must have been infallibly taken, had we not had the luckiest passage imaginable (being but five days from Lisbon to Cape Martin, where we joynd Sr Jno. Leake).

Saturday last in the morning, when were about 5 leagues to the wlward of Barcelona, my Lord Peterborow came of to the fleet wth twleve hundd soldiers embarqued in felucas and boats, and in the afternoon got in and landed them, wth all the soldiers out of the transports and most of the marines of the fleet. We have now about nine thousand soldiers in the towne. The French army con- sisted at first of twenty thousand ; four of wch, horse under the com- mand of the Duke of Anjou.b Their loss during this seige is com- puted to be five [thousand] including a thousand sick and wounded they have left behind, when they raised the seige, wch was at twelve aclock last night. They have left 50 peices of brass cannon mounted and 15 mortars, and are now bound to Roussilion. They will find great difficultys on their march. The Miquelets,c being very numerous and all in arms, will destroy a great many of 'em before they get out of Catalonia, it being a close country. The French squadron before this place consisted of 26 saile, line of battle ships. They sailed the night before we came, having intelligence of us by their scouts. They were all the supply the army had for provisions, for the Catalans have not given them the least ; nor could a man of 'em stirr from his tent a musquet shot out of the Camp but they killed him. We are now sending four ships with

a Afterwards Admiral. b Philip V. of Spain.

c Irregulars of the militia of Catalonia. CAMD. SOC. H

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6 hundred soldiers for Girone, to reinforce that garrison, lest the French should make any attempt on it, it lying in their way.

I hear there is an express come to Barcelona from my Lord Gallaway, giving an account of his being got to Toledo and on his march for Madrid. The lucky turn Providence has given to our affairs in these parts I suppose will be joy full news in England; and this being the first certain ace* you'l have, this long letter wont seem tedious.

I can expect no letters from you till Sr Clowdsly joyne us, and then do hope shall hear of your welfare and some good news in return of all this, which, with my duty to yr self and mother and love to all friends, is from,

Hond Sir,

Yr dutiful! Son,

Ns HADDOCK.

P.S. — We have had an eclipse of the sun to-day; lasted above two hours, and for a quarter 'twas total and as dark as night. W* it may portend, I leave to the learned. Our fleet consists of 50 saile in the line; 13 of wch, Dutch.

THE SAME TO THE SAME.

Alicant, this 31st of July, 1706.

HON* Sr,

I have both yr letters by Captn Dele vail, a as also the butter and cheeses, for wch I returne you thanks. I'm glad to hear both my sisters are so well recovered by the Bath. Pray God continue their healths. Sunday last we took this place, attacking it by land and sea; and almost all the people of it are run up to the castle, wth the garrison, for protection. We assisted our army with 500 sea- men. I have been ashore with 50 of our ship's company during

a George Delaval, of the Tilbury.

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the seige ; am very heartily fateigued, but very well in health. After we have got the castle, I hear the fleet will go for the Islands of Minorca and Majorca, and, after that, I hope home. If the S* George should not do, intend asking Sr Jn° Leake leave for my self.

I'm glad to hear the ship at Sheernes will be launcht so soon as March. I hope I'm pretty secure of her. I desire your excuse for this bad scrawle and blotted paper, but I write wth a pen made wth an old razor that I find in the house I'm quartered in. I have no more to say but my duty to yr self and mother and love to all freinds in London and Mile end, and remaine,

Hond Sr,

Yr dutifull Son,

N. HADDOCK.

P.S.— This lettr goes by the Eye.

To Sr Richd Haddock, at the Navy Office in Crutched Fryars, London, these.

SIR EICHARD HADDOCK TO THE COMMISSIONERS OF THE ADMIRALTY.

26th July, 1709.

GENTLEMEN,

In the yeare 1672 I comanded as Captn of the Eoyall James, under the E* Honble the Earle of Sandwch, in the Sowle Bay fight. The said shipp, after a vigorous defence, was burnt by the Dutch; in wch action I was wounded, the cure of wch cost me, in surgeons, apothicary, nurses, &c., betwext fower score and a hundred pounds. I have bine so remise and negligent as not to demaund satisfaction for my reimbursem*. Do pray the favor of the bord I may have a bill made out, what you shall think convenient, haveing bine out of my mony now 36 ys. I likewise, in the yeare 1690 (being then one of the Comr3 for Victualling), was taken into custody at Portsm0,

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and brought up a prisoner from thence by order of the then House of Comons, and remained as such a considerable tyme in ye hands of Mr. Topham, then sergant at armes to sd house, under pretence of our poisoning the fleet then at sea (under comd of Adm11 Herbert, now Earle of Torrington), with gutts in our beere and gaules in our beefe;a and with great dificulty obtained to be bailed. I must not call it injustice in that august assembly, what they did to me; but it cost me about a hundred pounds to Mr. Topham for his fees, and to lawyers soliciting the House of Comons, wth expences of entertain- ment whilst in custody; for satisfaction of wch I presume the bord will not think fitt to allow me, except directed soe to doe by order of the Lord High Adm11, for weh shall make my aplication to him ; but for my cure, I doubt not the favor and justice of the bord in ordering a bill to be made out.

I remain, Gentn, yor very humble serv*,

Ed. HADDOCK.

SIR RICHARD HADDOCK TO HIS GRANDSON.**

Clapham, 28th May, 1712, Wedensday.

DEARE GRANDSON,

I came yesterday to this place, and, according to my promise, do answer yours of 18th instant from Christ Colledge in Oxford.

It happens to be this day 40 years that I was burnt out of the Royall James in the Sole Bay fight against the Dutch. Am well pleased to find the efforts you intend to make yourselfe famous in Westminster Hall. It is like the saying of your Unckle Nich8, who doubted not but to be as great as Sr Cloudesly Shovell was; and he pushes very faire for it. Your father and family went to Wakehurst

a Macaulay's " casks of meat which dogs would not touch, and barrels of beer which smelt worse than bilge water." — Hist, of England, ch. xiv. b This must be a son of Sir Richard's daughter, who married a Mr. Lydell.

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Satuarday last; tooke Betty and Fanny Clark* downe w^ them; gote well thither. Yor Unckle Kicbard, the weeke past, hath bine very ill wth a feavor and ague, wcb kept me from hence longer then I designed ; is under the advice of Doctor Ratclif,b who gave me leave to come downe hither, promiseing his care of him ; and was downe staires when came away.

With my harty prayers for yor health and wellfare, I am

Yor most afec* grandfather,

Rd. H.

CAPTAIN NICHOLAS HADDOCK TO HIS WIFE.

Graf ton at sea, about 10 leagues from Cape Passaro, Aug. the 4th, 1718.

MY Dr FANNY,

The Superbe being orderd from the fleet wth the Admirall's letters, I send this to tell you I am well.

Five days ago we had a battle wth the Spanish fleet off of Cape Passaro,c on the Island of Sicily, in wch severall of their ships were taken and some destroy d. The Grafton had her share in that action, and the Admirall has been pleased to make me great compliments on my behaviour that day. I shall soon be orderd to be refitted at Port Mahon, the ship requiring it. I had fifty men killd and wounded. Among the former was L* Bramble, who was appointed by the intrest of Sir Cha. Wager. I'm sorry for him, he being a

a Children of another of Sir Richard's daughters, who married John Clarke, of Blake Hall, in Bobbingworth, co. Essex. b No doubt Dr. John Radcliffe. c On the 31st July, when Sir George Byng almost destroyed the Spanish fleet.

54 HADDOCK CORRESPONDENCE.

good officer. My Cousin Haddock a chased towards the shoar after part of the Spanish fleet, when they separated, wtb 4 or 5 other ships whose signalls were made for that purpose, and they are not yet come into the fleet. However, I doubt not but he is well, the ships that they were sent after being of the smaller sort.

My dr, pray send to Mrs. Harris to tell her her spouse is well.b He dined aboard me the day after the action ; he was one of the ships engaged.

Just before we saild from Naples I received yr letter, and am glad to hear yrself and the little boy are well. I give my love to all freinds, and remaine, my dr Fanny,

Yr most affec* husband,

N8. HADDOCK.

THE SAME TO THE SAME.

Grafton, at Regio, JanT the 19th, O.S., 171f.

MY DEAR SPOUSE,

I send this to tell you I am well. I believe, before this come to you, you will have heard of my having forced ashoar on Sicily a Spanish man of war of 70 guns, wch is overset and sunk. I recd some shot from her, but without much damage. My dr, we are here at an anchor, in company wth the Kent, Koy1 Oake, and Kochester, to block up Camock,c who is at Messina and will not venture out,

» Probably William Haddock. See above, p. 43, note d.

b Captain Barrow Harris, of the Breda.

e George Cammock, the Spanish Kear-Admiral, who had taken ref age in Messina. He slipped ont in a frigate, which however he had to abandon, and escaped by boat to land. He was an Irishman who had served with distinction in the English navy nnder Queen Anne, bnt had been dismissed on account of his Jacobite tendencies. He then entered the Spanish service; and it is said that, if the Spanish Admiral had followed his advice, the battle off Cape Passaro might have had a different result.

HADDOCK CORRESPONDENCE. 55

his squadron being much inferiour to us. By the news we receive from England, I conjecture Spain will soon be oblidgd to accept the terms proposed to 'em ; after wch I suppose the bigger ships will be orderdhome, where I shall always be glad to be, whenever it consists wth my honour ; for, indeed, my dear Fanny, I heartily love you. Pray give my love to all freinds, and I remaine, my dr,

Yr most affect, husband,

N8. HADDOCK.

P.S. This goes for Naples wth an express that Capt. Mathewsa sends to the Adm1, and from thence it will be forwarded to you.

Ns. H.

a Thomas Mathews, afterwards Admiral, who commanded the blockading force.

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INDEX.

Acton, Edward, Captain: at the capture

of Gibraltar, 48 Aumont, Antoine d', Marshal: attempt

on Ostend, 5, 6

Babb, Anna: 44

Balasore: attacked by the English, 37-39

Barcelona: relief of, 49

Blake, Robert, Admiral: his last vic- tory, 3

Blake, Thomas: 45

Bramble, Lieutenant: 53

Brandon, William: letter, 35

Bristol, George Digby, Earl of: 13

Burstow, William, Captain: 15

Byng, Sir George, Admiral : at the capture of Gibraltar, 46-48

Cammock, George, Spanish admiral : 54 Carter, Richard, Admiral: killed at La

Hogue, 42 Charles II. of England: visits the fleet,

23, 24, 29

Chicheley, Isabella: letter, 42 Clarke, Elizabeth: 53 Clarke, Fanny: 53 Courtney, Francis, Captain: 21 Coventry, Sir William: 7 Cromwell, Oliver, Lord Protector: 2^

Davenant, : 39

Deane, Anthony, Navy Commissioner: 21 Delaval, George, Captain: 50

Emms, Fleetwood, Captain: 45 Estrees, Jean d', Comte, Admiral: 23, 24

Fairborne, Sir Stafford, Admiral: 45 Finch, William, Captain: 20 Foules, Thomas, Captain: 20 Frowd, Philip, Postmaster: 36

Galway, Henry de Massue de Ruvigny. Earl of: 50

CAMD. SOC.

Gibraltar: its capture, 46-48

Goodlad, : 10, 11, 12, 14

Grove, Henry: 39

Haddock, Andrew: 2

Haddock, Elizabeth: letters to, 10, 12, 14, 19,21

Haddock, Fanny or Frances: letters to, 53,54

Haddock, Joseph, Captain: 11, 19, 21; letter from India, 37; at attack on Balasore, 37-39

Haddock, Lydia: 3

Haddock, Nicholas, Captain : at Vigo, 43 : 45; letters, 49, 50, 53, 54; at Barce- lona, 49 ; at Cape Passaro, 53 ; at Messina, 54

Haddock, Richard: 4, 13, 21; his gal- lantry, 19

Haddock, Sir Richard, Admiral: letters, 1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 10, 12, 14, 19, 21, 36, 43, 44, 51, 52; with squadron off Dunkirk, 3-7; declaration on the Dutch striking their flag, 9; serves against the Dutch, 10-31; account of the battle of South- wold Bay, 16-19; wounded, 18; journal, 22-31 ; observations on naval engage- ments, 31-35; reported desertion, 35, 36; claim for compensation, 51, 52

Haddock, Richard, Captain: 43, 44, 53: letter on the battle of La Hogue, 41-42

Haddock, William, Captain: letters to, 1, 3,5,6

Haddock, William: 3, 5, 43; at battle of Cape Passaro, 54

Hambliton [Hamilton?] Colonel: 22

Harbin, Samuel: 39

Harbord, Sir Charles, 18

Harman, Sir John, Admiral: 21, 30

Harris, Barrow, Captain; 54

Hay ward, John, Captain: 21

Heath, Captain: attacks Balasore, 37-39

Heath, Thomas: gallantry at La Hogue,

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INDEX.

Hesse-Darmstadt, George, Prince of: at

the capture of Gibraltar, 46 Hinton, John: 39 Hodges, Captain: 44 Hogg, Christopher: 39 Hogne, La: battle of, 41-42

Johnson, Francis: 40

Jordan, Sir Joseph, Admiral : his conduct

at Southwold Bay, 17, 18 Jumper ,William, Captain: at the capture

of Gibraltar, 47

Kelsey, Thomas, Major- General: 1 Kerr, William, Captain: 45

Lane, Samuel: 15 Lydell, : 52

Mathews, Thomas, Captain: 55 Mayo, Thomas, Lieutenant: 18

Ossory, Thomas Butler, Earl of: 24 Ostend: attempt on, 5, 6

Passaro, Cape: battle of, 53

Pennyman, Captain: 35

Peterborough, Charles Mordaunt, Earl

of: relieves Barcelona, 49 Philip V. of Spain: 49 Poole, Sir William, Captain: 14, 15, 16

Roffey, Kerril, Captain: 48

Rooke, Sir George, Admiral: 44, 45: at

the capture of Gibraltar, 47 Roxby, Henry: 40 Rupert, Prince: 23, 24, 28, 30, 31; his

actions with the Dutch, 19, 20, 26-28

Sadlington, Richard, Captain: 28 Sandwich, Edward Montague, Earl of,

Admiral: commanding off Dunkirk, 5;

at Southwold Bay, 16-19 Sawkell, Edmond: 35 Scarlet, Charles: 39 Sharpe, Captain: 39 Shovel, Sir Cloudesley, Admiral: at La

Hogue, 41, 45 Smart, John: 40

Sotherne, : 44

Southwold, or Sole, Bay: battle of , 16-19 Stanier, Sir Richard, Admiral: 9

Stanley, , Factor at Balasore: 39

Starland, : 39

Storm of 1703: 45

Strickland, Sir Roger, Admiral: 22

Tempest, John, Captain: 20 Thanksgiving-day: 44

Topham, , Serjeant-at-Arms: 52

Trepassey, in Newfoundland: action off,

43 Trevanion, Richard, Captain: 20, 21

Wasey, , Captain: 19

Werden, Robert, Captain: 20, 21 Whitaker, Edward, Captain: account of

the capture of Gibraltar, 46-48 White, Richard, Captain: 28 Willshaw, Thomas, Navy Commissioner:

44

York, James, Duke of: account of battle of Southwold Bay addressed to, 16-19; visits the fleet, 23, 24, 29

Young, Henry, Captain: 28

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