| | | |stood back and came to the | | | |Nore after 2 battles in | | | |eight days. | | | | ” | Aug. | 11 |3ᵈ victory against yᵉ |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. Rˡ Prince’s | | | |mainmᵗ shot down; had like | | | |to have been burnt. -----+-------+-----+------------------------+---------------------------- [a] A mistake for May. [b] On the 29th November. It was after this action that Van Tromp hoisted the broom at his mast-head. [c] On the 2nd and 3rd June, off the North Foreland. [d] Off the Dutch coast. [e] Before declaration of war, in retaliation for attacks by the Dutch on the colonies. [f] Sir Thomas Tiddiman, or Teddiman. [g] The Governor of Bergen not having yet received the instructions from his Government and refusing to admit the English fleet. [h] Sir Christopher Mings; died of wounds received in the action of 1st June. [i] Bandaris in the island of Schelling. [j] Sir Robert Robinson. [k] The day that the Dutch were in the Medway. [l] The Middle, a shoal off Foulness, between the West Swin and the East Swin or King’s Channel. [m] Near the mouth of the Thames, off the village of Lee on the Essex side. [n] Thomas Harman. [o] Adrian Brackell, the captain of the Dutch man-of-war. WILLIAM BRANDON TO SIR RICHARD HADDOCK. Portsmᵒ Victuallᵍ 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. Pennyman, and severall other seamen, are gone for Holland; wᶜʰ are lookt upon heere as a verry greate reflection upon your Honʳ, that cannott without ingratitude and breach of duty omit acquainting you with itt and the author’s name, wᶜʰ is Edmond Sawkell, att the Generall Post Office. I have and shall vindicate your Honʳ to my outmost power; and begg leave to subscribe myself Yoʳ Honʳˢ Most humble and obedient servᵗ, Wᵐ BRANDON. To the Honᵇˡᵉ Sʳ Richᵈ Haddock, Knᵗ, one of the Commʳˢ for Victualling his Majᵗʸˢ Navy, att the office on Tower Hill, London, These. SIR RICHARD HADDOCK TO PHILIP FROWD.[a] Tower Hill, London, this 29th July, 1688. Sʳ,