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If you are not located in the United States, you'll have -to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. - -Title: Correspondence of the Family of Haddock 1657-1719 - The Camden Miscellany: Volume the Eighth - -Author: Various - -Editor: Edward Maunde Thompson - -Release Date: September 25, 2016 [EBook #53144] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CORRESPONDENCE--FAMILY HADDOCK *** - - - - -Produced by Cindy Horton and the Online Distributed -Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was -produced from images generously made available by The -Internet Archive/American Libraries.) - - - - - -Transcriber’s Note: inconsistencies in spelling, etc are left unaltered. - - - - - - THE CAMDEN MISCELLANY, - VOLUME THE EIGHTH: - - 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 HENRIETTA - 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. - - [Illustration] - - PRINTED FOR THE CAMDEN SOCIETY. - - M.DCCC.LXXXIII. - - WESTMINSTER: - PRINTED BY NICHOLS AND SONS, - 25, PARLIAMENT STREET. - - [NEW SERIES XXXI.] - - - - -COUNCIL OF THE CAMDEN SOCIETY FOR THE YEAR 1882-3. - - - _President_, - THE RIGHT HON. THE EARL OF VERULAM, F.R.G.S. - - J. J. CARTWRIGHT, ESQ., M.A., _Treasurer_. - WILLIAM CHAPPELL, ESQ., F.S.A. - F. W. COSENS, ESQ., F.S.A. - JAMES E. DOYLE, ESQ. - REV. J. WOODFALL EBSWORTH, M.A., F.S.A. - JAMES GAIRDNER, ESQ. - SAMUEL RAWSON GARDINER, ESQ., _Director_. - J. W. HALES, ESQ., M.A. - ALFRED KINGSTON, ESQ., _Secretary_. - CHARLES A. J. MASON, ESQ. - THE EARL OF POWIS, LL.D. - EVELYN PHILIP SHIRLEY, ESQ., M.A. (_the late_) - REV. W. SPARROW SIMPSON, D.D., F.S.A. - WILLIAM JOHN THOMS, ESQ., F.S.A. - J. R. DANIELL-TYSSEN, ESQ., F.S.A. (_the late_). - -The COUNCIL of the CAMDEN SOCIETY desire it to be understood that they -are not answerable for any opinions or observations that may appear -in the Society’s publications; the Editors of the several Works being -alone responsible for the same. - - - - - CORRESPONDENCE - OF - THE FAMILY OF HADDOCK - 1657-1719 - - EDITED BY - EDWARD MAUNDE THOMPSON - - PRINTED FOR THE CAMDEN SOCIETY - M.DCCC.LXXXI. - - - - -PREFACE. - - -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 regularity 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 -biographers. - -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 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 Richard Haddock had another son, Richard, who -was probably a good deal younger than his brother. He served with -distinction in the Dutch war in 1673;[1] 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: Richard, Andrew, Joseph, and William. Richard will be -noticed presently. Andrew is mentioned in the first letter of this -Correspondence. William was at sea with his brother Richard in 1657 -and 1658. Joseph was a lieutenant in the Lion in 1672, and in the -Royal 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). Richard Haddock was born about -the year 1629, and must have entered the service at an early age; -for in 1657, when the present Correspondence 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 he 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 Royal 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 -Royal 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 parliament 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 Elizabeth is unknown. He probably -married her not earlier than 1670, 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 Bobbingworth, 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 afterwards 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 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 may be found -useful, is appended.[2] - - * * * * * - -It will be seen that the letters and papers here printed belonged, for -the most part, to Sir Richard Haddock. His long life enabled 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. - - E. M. T. - - _24 March, 1881._ - - Richard Haddock, - Captain in the Parliamentary Navy, = ... - d. 22 May, 1660, æt. 79. | - | - +-----------------------+-----------------------+ - | | - Anna ..., = William Haddock, Richard Haddock, = ... - d. 6 Jan. | Captain in the R.N. | - 1688, | Parliamentary Navy, | - æt. 78. | d. 22 Sept. 1667, æt. 60. | - | [William Haddock, - | Captain R.N., - | d. 1726.] - | - +---+----------------------+---------------+--------+ - | | | | - 1. Lydia = Sir Richard Joseph Haddock, William Andrew - [Stevens]. | Haddock, R.N., and East Haddock, Haddock. - 2. Elizabeth | Admiral, R.N., Indian Service. R.N. - ..., d. 26 | d. 26 Jan. - Feb. 1709, | 1715, æt. 85. - æt. 59. | - +---+--------------+--------+------+-----+----+ - | | | | | | - | William Haddock, | A dau. | A daughter, - | d. 1697. | m. ... | unmarried, - | | Lydell. | d. 24 Mar. - 1. Martha ... d. = Richard | | | 1732. - 1722. | Haddock, R.N., | A son. | - 2. Elizabeth ... | Comptroller | | - d. 1730. | of the Navy, | | - 3. Mary, daughter | d. 1751 | Elizabeth = John Clarke, - of Charles | | Haddock. | of Blake - Compton, 4th | | | Hall, in - son of George | | | Bobbingworth - 4th Earl of | | +---------+-------+ - Northampton. | | | | | - | | Richard Elizabeth Fanny - | | Clarke. Clarke. Clarke. - | | - +-----------------+ Nicholas Haddock, = Frances ... - | Admiral, R.N., d. | d. 22 Nov. - | 26 Sept. 1746, æt. 60. | 1735. - | | - | +---------+----------+--------+-----+---+ - | | | | | | - | Richard Fleetwood Nicholas Richard Charles - | Haddock, Haddock, Haddock, Haddock, Haddock, - | d. 1717. d. 1722. d. 1781. R.N. living in 1792. - | - +----+----------+------------+------------------+ - | | | | - Martha Richard Elizabeth = ... Mary, = George Calvert, - Haddock, Haddock, Haddock, Harman. d. Lieutenant in - d. 1722. d. 1756. d. 1754. 1818. the Guards, - d. 1781. - -[1] See p. 19 in the Correspondence. Charnock in his _Biographia -Navalis_, i. 334, has made him out to be the son of Andrew Haddock, his -own nephew. - -[2] The best account of the Haddock family is to be found in a paper -written by Mr. H. W. King and printed in _The Archæological 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 _sqq._ - - - - -CORRESPONDENCE OF THE FAMILY OF HADDOCK. - - -CAPTAIN RICHARD HADDOCK[a] TO HIS FATHER. - - Dragon frigᵗ in the Downes, this 30ᵗʰ May, aᵒ 1657. - -HONᵈ FATHER, - -Sir, these I hope will congratulate yoʳ safe arrivall at Leghorne, wᶜʰ -God graunt may be with yoʳ health and well fare, for the continuation -whereof I shall ever pray. - -I cannot yet forgett my unhapynes yᵗ soe short a tyme and small -distance hindred me the inioymᵗ 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 yᵗ 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 Genˡˡ Kelsey[b] tould me yᵉ unwellcome -news of yoʳ being past by; and himselfe was very sory when I gave him -an accᵗ yᵗ 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 thankfull for his respect he exprest towards yoᵘ, -but I knew not before yᵗ I might be soe bould wᵗʰ him as to desire such -a favor. Yoᵘ saild hence yᵉ Fryday evening; and Satuarday, by 10 in yᵉ -forenoone, we were soe neare yᵉ head of Beachy yᵗ noe shipp could or -did passe by us, but we spake wᵗʰ in hopes of meeting yoᵘ. Surely the -wind blew the harder to deny me yᵗ 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 sorrowfull 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 Portsmᵒ; yᵉ Tryomph, Victory, Vantguard, and Entrance, -from Chatham. I cannot give you an accᵗ, yᵉ occasion or upon wᵗ 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 yᵗ doe atend our earthly pilgrimage. - -Sir, my wife desires yoᵘ please, at yoʳ arrivall at Venᵃ, 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 wᵗ 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 governmᵗ of the Comonwealth under yᵉ -title of King,[c] and since, its established to him in the title he now -beares.[d] - -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.[e] - -Since yᵉ wrighting yᵉ above lynes I have recᵈ order to goe over and -ryde before Dunkerk, and to take yᵉ comand of yᵗ squadron now riding -there. This day is arrived hapy news, Genˡˡ Blake’s burneing and -sinking 16 saile of the K. of Spaine’s gallions and shipps at Sᵗᵃ -Cruse, most welcome and true.[f] - - R. H. - - To his honᵈ. father, Capt. Wm. Haddock, Comander of the shipp - Hanniball, these present, Livorno. - - * * * * * - -[a] Afterwards Admiral Sir R. Haddock. - -[b] Major-General Thomas Kelsey, commanding in Kent and Surrey. - -[c] On the 8th May. - -[d] On the 25th May. - -[e] 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.”) - -[f] 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. - - - - -THE SAME TO THE SAME. - - Dragon frigᵗ in Dunkirk Road, this 15ᵗʰ June, aᵒ 1657. - -HONᵈ FATHER, - -Sʳ, my most humble duty wᵗʰ 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 yᵗ, blessed be God, we injoy. -These I hope will find yoᵘ safe arrived at Leghorne. My last from the -Downes gave yoᵘ an accᵗ yᵗ 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 yᵗ are in, and prevent those comeing in wᵗʰ there -prisses yᵗ are abroad. But they want not harbours in Holland to secure -them and wᵗ 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 ingagemᵗˢ 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 -mercyles enemyes, and send yoᵘ a safe returne to the injoymᵗ of yoʳ -relations, for the happy accomplishmᵗ whereof itt shall be the earnest -request of, - -Sir, yoʳ most affetionate and obedient sonne till death, - - RICHARD HADDOCK. - - To his honᵈ freind Capt. Wm. Haddock, Comander of the ship - Hanniball, these present, at Livorno. - - * * * * * - -[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. Mardike was captured in September of -this year, and Dunkirk in June 1658; and both towns were duly handed -over to the English forces. - - - - -THE SAME TO THE SAME. - - Dragon frigᵗ in Dunkirke Road, this 26 Aprill, 1658; Monday. - -HONᵈ FATHER, - -Sʳ, my most humble duty presented unto yoᵘ wᵗʰ my deare Mother, -Grandfather, and Grandmᵒ, 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, haveing oʳ boates in wᵗʰ the shore and a small frigᵗ, 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 understanding, yet he got -away and noe sight of him at day light. Last Saturday heere went from -Mardike Marshall d’Aumon, Duke of Bouligne,[a] 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] - -If the intelligence given me be true, we shall see a sodaine alteration -in Flaunders. Its said yᵗ, 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 yᵗ 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 performance. 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 considerable place as yᵗ is, a -neast of roages, shall be routed. If it proves efectuall, farwell most -pᵗˢ 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 victualling -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. - - * * * * * - -[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 garrison 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 Français_, vol. xxiv. -(1840), p. 564. - -[b] Edward Montague, afterwards Earl of Sandwich, who had command of -the English fleet. - - - - -THE SAME TO THE SAME. - - Dragon frigᵗ in Dunkirke Road, this primᵒ May, 1658; Satuarday. - -HONᵈ FATHER, - -Sʳ, my last from this place was of 26th past, since wᶜʰ not anything -hath ofered. The great Monsʳ with the soldiers I gave yoᵘ accᵗ of are -yet before Oastend with the Vice Admirall have efected 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 Admᵗʸ. 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 Grandmᵒ, Father and Mother Steevens, wᵗʰ my loveing saluts to my -wife, brothers, sisters, and freinds in genˡˡ; 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 frigᵗ under saile with a lee tyde, my wife must excuse -my not wrighting her at present. - - - - -THE SAME TO SIR WILLIAM COVENTRY.[a] - - Portland frigᵗᵗ in Oasely Bay,[b] 11ᵗʰ Sept. 1666; Tuesday, 8 at night. - -RIGHT 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 sayled out of Oasely bay through the Slade Way,[c] intending -for the North Forland, and soe unto the 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 wᵗʰ 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 sayle 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 brˡˡˢ powder on bord. Yesterday we -got into Alborough bay, when I gave accᵗ 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 yᵗ 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 accᵗ of our -proceedings, wᶜʰ is wᵗ ofers at present from, - -Rᵗ Honᵇˡᵉ, yʳ humble servᵗ att Comᵈ, - - RICHARD HADDOCK. - - _Endorsed_: “Copie of lettʳ to Sʳ Wm. Coventry, from Sʳ Rᵈ - Haddock.” - - * * * * * - -[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. - - - - -DECLARATION OF CAPTAIN RICHARD HADDOCK. - -Aᵒ 1657, Novembʳ. - - Dragon frigᵗ, Novembʳ, 1657. - -18. The 18th November I recᵈ orders from Sʳ Richard Stainer[a] to sayle -out yᵉ Downes, and in company wᵗʰ the Colchester frigᵗᵗ 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 Admˡˡ 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 -Admˡˢ 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 Admˡˡˢ flagg alsoe, and -presantly after they sent up a man to topmasthead and struck the flagg, -wᶜʰ his Vice and Reare Admˡˡ 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 ½ an hower, and afterwards furld them; the Admˡˡ 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 Admˡˡ, 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, 1671/2. - - RICHARD HADDOCK. - - * * * * * - -[a] Admiral Sir Richard Stayner was knighted for his gallantry in -Blake’s attack on Santa Cruz. (See above, p. 3.) - - - - -CAPTAIN RICHARD HADDOCK TO HIS WIFE.[a] - - On bord yᵉ R. James, at anchor 4 miles wᵗʰout St. Hellens, - this 5ᵗʰ May, 1672; Sonday night. - -MY DEARE BETTY, - -This afternoone we arrived this place wᵗʰ 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 thee. 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 Portsmᵒ to me. - - R. H. - - * * * * * - -[a] His second wife, Elizabeth; maiden name unknown. - - - - -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 accᵗ of my wellfare and good health, wᶜʰ 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 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 perticulars. -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 -imploymᵗ 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 wᵗ 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 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 pᵗ, - - RICHARD HADDOCK. - -These I send to Dover by our kitch, who is goeing to watter for us, but -doe beleive we may get thither ourselves as soone. - - - - -THE SAME TO THE SAME. - - R. 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 Hollanders 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 leewards of us, as we did yᵗ 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 ½ 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 yᵗ I supose we are neerer 90 then fowerscore men of -warr, upwards 25 fireships, amongst wᶜʰ my unckle R. 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 accᵗ -of oʳ actions; our men briske and brave and very ready and willing to -fight. The Earle of Bristow[a] 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 Bradenham 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 -wellfare and our actions. Youl excuse me to my loveing relations yᵗ 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,[b] 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. Wilkinson, -of Messina, and for a chest of Florence he sent me from himselfe, wᵗʰ -seavrall other things, all wᶜʰ 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 servᵗ. Thyne, - - R. HADDOCK. - - * * * * * - -[a] George Digby, 2nd Earl of Bristol. - -[b] Rotherhithe. - - - - -THE SAME TO THE SAME. - - R. James, in Southold Bay, this 25th May, 1672; Saturday evening. - -MY DEAREST LOVE, - -These I send by Capt. Poole,[a] who, wᵗʰ the Garland frigᵗᵗ 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. - -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, yᵗ 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, notwithstanding 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 supernumeraryes. 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 Rederif 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.[b] 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 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 Leivetenᵗ. He -wrights me of thy health, and yᵗ I shall recᵉ a letter from the by yᵉ -Hatton ketch. - -I am thyne, - - R. HADDOCK. - - 26 May, ’72. - - * * * * * - -[a] Sir William Poole, distinguished by his share in the reduction of -Tobago, this year. - -[b] William Bustow or Burstow, commanding the Mary yacht. - - - - -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 afterwards 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 Admˡ and his right astern; only two or three frigates to leeward, -and so near, one of 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[c] command, ahead to Sir Joseph Jordaine,[d] 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 assistance; which never returned, but were on -board several who endeavoured 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 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 supposed -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[e] and Lieutenant Mayo[f] to stand by -my Lord; and, as soon as I came down, remembring 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 -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. - - * * * * * - -[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. - -[c] Earl of Sandwich. - -[d] Sir Joseph Jordan, Vice-Admiral of the Blue. See a defence of -his conduct, as described in this letter, in Charnock’s _Biographia -Navalis_. - -[e] Sir Charles Harbord, who served as a volunteer and perished. - -[f] Thomas Mayo. He was one of the few who escaped from the Royal James. - - - - -CAPTAIN RICHARD HADDOCK TO HIS WIFE. - - On bord the R. Charles, this 29th May, 1673; - 7 leagues of Oostend. - -MY DEAREST LOVE, - -These are to give the an accᵗ 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.Wᵗ., but changed to yᵉ N.N.E. in the -bataile towards evening. We buoyed the outward 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 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 wᵗʰ 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 Capᵗˢ killed that we have already an account of; -I 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.[b] 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 yᵗ 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 joyfull 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. Trevanion[c] is killed, comdᵍ the -Dreadnought; but I hope it is not true. - - * * * * * - -[a] Rupert. - -[b] 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. Navalis_. - -[c] Richard Trevanion. He was not killed. He followed James II. into -exile. - - - - -THE SAME TO THE SAME. - - Yet on bord yᵉ 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 accᵗ 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 Jnᵒ 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 Richard 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, - - RICHARD HADDOCK. - -Pray, if Comʳ Deane[e] be not in towne, send forward the inclosed to -Portsmᵒ. - - * * * * * - -[a] Francis Courtney. He fell in the action with the Dutch on the 11th -August of this year. - -[b] This is denied. (See above, p. 20, note b.) - -[c] Became Vice-Admiral of the Red, on the death of Sir Edward Spragge, -this year. - -[d] John Hayward. He fell in the action of 11th August, this year. - -[e] Anthony Deane, Commissioner of the Navy at Portsmouth. - - - - -THE SAME TO THE SAME. - - R. Charles, rideing Nᵒ, 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 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 accᵗ from a good hand from Oostend yᵗ -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 agᵗ -they come. The Swiftsure is this day come to us; had like to have bine -snapt Tuesday last by the Amsterdam squadron yᵗ 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 genˡˡ. Wᵗʰ my -deare love to thy selfe, my daughter, and little Richard, I remayne - -Thyne, till death us part, - - RICHARD HADDOCK. - - - - -JOURNAL [OF CAPTAIN RICHARD HADDOCK] IN HIS MAJᵗʸˢ SHIP R. CHARLES, -MAY, 1673. - -_Aᵒ. 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 N.; blew very hard, -and raine some part of the forenoone; could not weigh. - -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 Rupert came on bord us, but went -of at noone; dyned on bord the R. 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.Wᵗ., S.E. -and E. by Nᵒ. 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.Eᵗ. 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 Admˡˡ, -who wore his flagg at yᵉ foretopmast head, being V. Admˡˡ of Fraunce, -past by us about musket shote or somewᵗ more asterne of us; struck his -flagg, lored his topsailes and saluted us, I meane yᵉ 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 Rye his Majᵗʸ and R. 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 Majᵗʸ; -and about ½ 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. - -18. This Sonday the wind vered to the east and by north, and back to -yᵉ N.N.Eᵗ. at night; blew very fresh all day. This day the King dyned -on bord Conte d’Estrees; the standard at maine topmast 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[b] hoysted the Reare -Admˡˡ blew flagg on bord the St. Michael. - -19. This Monday morning, about 3 aclock, being at anchor still, the -wind at E.N.Eᵗ., 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.Eᵗ. We had intelligence, -by a sloop, of 70 saile of Hollanders seene on the back of yᵉ Goodwin, -and wᵗʰout the Sᵒ Sands Head; but proved to be, by our 2d intelligence -by the litle Greyhound, a fleet of Hamburghers 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 mainetopmast head; and, whilst the Prince remaind on bord -him, his flagg (I meane yᵉ Conte d’Estrees) was kept furld. Towards -evening the Hamburgʳˢ fleet plyed by us to the wᵗwards; gave us many -gunns in saluts. Yᵉ wind, since 4 in the afternoone, at W.S.W. and Wᵗ. -This night we rode fast. - -21. This 21 day, Wedensday morneing, at 4 aclock, we wayed wᵗʰ the -whole fleet; wind at W. by Nᵒ., a fine fresh gale. By 10 aclock the -wind came to yᵉ S.Wᵗ. We steered away on the back of the Goodwin. About -4, afternoone, we anchored in 10 fadom watter, on the flatts of the -Nᵒ 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 -Nᵒ. and E.N.Eᵗ. to goe cleare of the showld of the Falls;[c] 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 Sᵒ, 5 leagues distant. -This evening we saw the Dutch fleet, part of them; they rode in -Schonvelt. Our scout gave us accᵗ 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 11 fadom watter, within the oyster -bancks. Yᵉ Dutch fleet, yᵉ nᵒmost, bore E.N.E.; and yᵉ southmost Eᵗ, -southerly from us, about 3 leagues. This night have had but litle wind -at S.S.W. and S.Wᵗ. - -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 tendors 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 Wᵗ.S.Wᵗ. This morneing came in to -the fleet the Soveraigne, Victory, and Dyamond, out of the river of -Thames. Yesterday our scouts gave us accᵗ 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. - -25. This Sonday the wind hath blowne very hard at W.S.Wᵗ.; 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.Wᵗ. back to yᵉ S.Eᵗ., -wᵗʰ very thick weather, and then veered to the N.Wᵗ., 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. N. and W.N.Wᵗ. 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 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. Eᵗ. from Oostend, 6 or 7 leagues of. This day yᵉ -Prince called a councill of flagg oficers. Ordered, that yᵉ respective -flaggs call ther divissions on bord and take accᵗ of what damages recᵈ -yesterday in the bataile. This day the wind blew very hard at S.Wᵗ.; -forct us to strick our topmasts and yards and veere out our shot of -cable 2½ 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.Wᵗ. -and W.S.Wᵗ. Towards evening lesse wind. We got up our topmasts. - -31. This Satuarday forenoone, foggy weather; afternoone, very faire -weather; the wind at N.Eᵗ. This day the Prince tooke resolution 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. - -3. This Tuesday evening his Highnes the Prince went on bord the -Soveraigne. I and Capt. Young[d] followed him, and this night lay on -bord her. - -4. This Wedensday morneing, very early, I went on bord the R. Charles -to shift the men. Chose out 250 men to come on bord the Soveraigne. - - * * * * * - -[a] Jean, Comte d’Estrées. - -[b] Thomas Butler, Earl of Ossory. - -[c] A long narrow shoal off the North Foreland. - -[d] Henry Young. - - - - -JOURNALL IN THE R. SOVERAIGNE, JUNE, 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 Rutter in the body--bore -downe towards us (the wind at N.Eᵗ., a very fresh gale). We ingaged -till twas darke, more then ½ 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 we 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.[a] What number of men slaine in the fleet, know not. This -night we stood to the northwards with our foresaile and mainetopsailes -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 topsailes; -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 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.[b] 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.[c] -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.[d] 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,[e] in 8 fadom watter. - -7. This Satuarday, 8 in the morning, we wayed; wind at Wᵗ. and W. b. N. -We turned up as high as the Oase Edge buoy;[f] 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 Eᵗ and E.S.Eᵗ, 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.Eᵗ. - -10. This Tuesday, wind came to the north. Slaby weather and cold; -bloweing a fresh gale. - -11. This Wedensday wind at N.Wᵗ. 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 Eᵗ to S.Eᵗ. The King came 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.Eᵗ. This day we were falcely -allarum’d by the Holmes frigᵗᵗ comeing up from the Gunflet wᵗʰ -topgalant sails flying and fired gunns, uppon a certaine, or rather -uncertaine, intelligence that 19 or 20 saile of Dutch men of warr were -seene wᵗʰout 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.Eᵗ. 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,[g] 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 to W.S.W.; little -wind till evening. It then blew hard, westerly. This day we had -intelligence, by a Hellicar land[h] 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 Wᵗ. bloweing fresh. Towards -evening the wind came to the S.S.Wᵗ. 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.Eᵗ. I went into yᵉ -Swale, to setle our muster booke of the R. Charles. - -19. This Thursday wind at north and N.Wᵗ.; some tyme badd weather. - -20. This Fryday we tooke on bord 16 ts. of watter. The wind hath bine -at north and back to W.S.Wᵗ.; sometymes badd weather. - -21. This Satuarday the wind at S.W. In the afternoone the Prince -returned on bord againe. - -22. This Sonday wind southerly. The Prince went into Sheerenes. - -23. This Monday wind at S.S.W. to W.N.Wᵗ.; 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. - - * * * * * - -[a] Richard White and Richard Sadlington. - -[b] Lowestoft Ness. - -[c] The Shipwash sand-bank off the mouth of the Deben. - -[d] The King’s Channel or East Swin, running down east of the Gunfleet -sands, off the Essex shore. - -[e] The Middle Ground shoal lies at the mouth of the Thames, some miles -below the Nore, on the Kentish side of the river. - -[f] The Oaze Edge shoal near the Middle Ground, but on the Essex side. - -[g] The Red Sand lies between the Ooze Edge and the Middle Ground. - -[h] Heligoland. - - - - -NAVAL OPERATIONS, 1652-1673; WITH OBSERVATIONS BY CAPTAIN RICHARD -HADDOCK. - - -----+-------+-----+------------------------+--------------------------- - Year.| Mo. | D. | | Observations. - -----+-------+-----+------------------------+--------------------------- - | | | | - 1652 |June[a]| 19 |Fight in Downes between |Genˡ Blake comanded. Fight - | | |English and Dutch. |to the wᵗward off Dover. - | | | | - | Sept. | 5 |French fleet beat by |Genˡ Blake comanded. - | | |English | - | | | | - | Nov. |15[b]|Blake worsted by Dutch. |True; and retired to the - | | | |Buoy of the Nore over the - | | | |Flats. - | | | | - | Feb. | 18, |Fight near Portland. |True. Blake, Deane, and - | | 19, |Dutch beaten. |Monck. Genˡ Blake and - | | 20 | |Deane in the Tryumph; - | | | |Monk in the Vanguard. - | | | |Blake wounded. - | | | | - | | |English worsted in |True. Capᵗ Rᵈ Balilo - | | |Levant by Dutch. |commanded. - | | | | - | June |--[c]|Dutch beaten. |Deane and Monk Genˡˢ. - | | | |Deane killed. - | | | | - ’53 | July | 29, |Fight between English |True. Dutch beaten. Genˡ - | | 30 |and Dutch.[d] |Monk only comanded. Trump - | | | |killed, and his flag shot - | | | |down. - | | | | - ’64 | Dec. | 30 |Fleet off Portsmouth |True. Brought into Portsmᵒ - | | [e] |took 112 Dutch prizes. |and afterwards made prizes. - | | | | - ’65 | Aprˡ | 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 |True. Opdam then blown up; - | | |Duke, and 30 capitˡ |the rest taken and burnt. - | | |ships taken and | - | | |destroyed. | - | | | | - | Aug. | 16 |Dutch Smerna Streights |True; and was forced away by - | | |East India ships |the Danes and Dutch, who - | | |attacqu’d by Rʳ Admˡ |landed ther guns contrary - | | |Tiddiman[f] in Bergen. |to, the concert between the - | | | |two Crowns of England - | | | |and Denmark.[g] - | | | | - | Sept. | 4 |2 East India and sevˡ |True; and two men-of-war - | | |merchᵗ ships taken by |then taken by Sprag in the - | | |E. of Sandwich. |Rˡ James, formerly called - | | | |the Richard. - | | | | - | ” | 9 |18 sˡ of Dutch beaten, |True. - | | |and greatest part taken.| - | | | | - | Feb. | 8 |Dutch chas’d into |True. - | | |Weilings by Myngs[h]. | - | | | | - ’66 | June | 1 |Duke Albemᵃ engaged 90 |Fought 3 days. Then came - | | |sˡ of Dutch on coast |Prince Rupert in the Rˡ - | | |of Flanders. |James, wᵗʰ the squadron - | | | |wᶜʰ had been to the - | | | |westwᵈ to look out for - | | | |Beaufort from Toulon. Were - | | | |sent for back. Yᵉ 3ᵈ day, - | | | |Sonday, on our retreat, the - | | | |Rˡ Prince was lost on the - | | | |Galliper; set on - ” | June | 4, |Dutch beaten. |fire. The Swiftsure taken - | | 5, | |by the Dutch. The 4ᵗʰ day - | | 6 | |both fleets retird: Prince - | | | |Rupert and Duke of Albemarle - | | | |to the Nore, the Dutch - | | | |to their own coast. - | | | | - ” | July | 25, |Dutch beaten by Prince |The Dutch run home to their - | | 26 |Rupert and Dᵏ |harbours. - | | |Albemarle. | - | | | | - ” | Augᵗ | 7 |Sʳ Rᵗ Holmes burnt |True. Sʳ Rᵗ Holmes went in - | | |150 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. - | | | |Afterwards burnt the town of - | | | |Brandros[i] before he went - | | | |out. - | | | | - ” | Dec. | 25 |Robinson[j] took and |True. It was in his return - | | |destroyed 3 Dutch men |from Gottenburgh, whither - | | |of warr near yᵉ |he was sent to convoy - | | |Texell. |home a great fleet laden - | | | |with naval stores. - | | | | - 1667 | April | 30 |Dutch attempted Burnt |True, I beleive. - | | |Isleand in Scotland | - | | |and beaten of. | - | | | | - ” | June | 11 |12 Dutch taken and 2 |True. - | | [k] |sunck near Norway. | - | | | | - ” | 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 |True. - | | |16 Engl. men of warr | - | | |engaged 30 French near | - | | |Martinego; burnt and | - | | |destroyed most of them. | - | | | | - ” | | 26 |8 Dutch prizes with |True, I beleive. - | | |masts and deals taken. | - | | | | - ” | July | 19 |Dutch attemptᵈ Torbay, |True. - | | |but beaten off. | - | | | | - ” | | 23 |23 Dutch make up yᵉ | - | | |Thames. | - | | | | - ” | 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,[l] - | | | |having but 6 men of war - | | | |and 12 fireships. Sʳ Joseph - | | | |Jordain came from Harwich - | | | |in a smal man of war with - | | | |sevˡ colliers made - | | | |fireships. We rode then at - | | | |Lee Road.[m] Dutch at the - | | | |Nore. Wind blew hard - | | | |easterly. Did no execution - | | | |on the Dutch. - | | | | - ” | Augᵗ | 3 |De Ruyter attempts yᵉ |True, but did no execution - | | |Virginia fleet. |on yᵐ. - | | | | - ” | | 24 |Six Engl., cruiseing |I beleive it true, but know - | | |northwᵈ, fought a |not of it. - | | |squadron of Dutch | - | | |and took 3. | - | | | | - ’71 | May | 10 |10 Algerines burnt at |True. The boom was first cut - | | |Bugia by Sʳ Ed. |by Capt. Harman,[n] that - | | |Spragg. |comanded the boats. - | | | | - ” | July | 5 |Sʳ Christophʳ | - | | |restor’d by the French. | - | | | | - ’72 | Mar. | 14 |Sʳ Rᵗ Holmes fought |True; but ’twas not for - | | |yᵉ Dutch refusing to |refusing to strike. - | | |strike. | - | | | | - ” | May | 28 |Fight wᵗʰ yᵉ whole |True. In that fight the Rˡ - | | |Dutch Fleet off |James was burnt, after she - | | |Southwold bay. |had quitted herself of - | | | |Brackel,[o] a Dutch 70 gun - | | | |ship, that lay athwort her - | | | |hawse, which she took; and - | | | |being disabled gave - | | | |opportunity of a fireship - | | | |clapping her aboard. - | | | | - ” | Dec. | 20 |Tobago Island taken |True. - | | |from yᵉ Dutch. | - | | | | - ’72 | Dec. | 31 |Sᵗ Hellena taken by |True. - | | |yᵉ Dutch. | - | | | | - ’73 | May | 6 |Sᵗ Hellena retaken by |True. - | | |Capt. Monday. | - | | | | - ” | May | 28 |Engl. Fleet engage yᵉ |True. Fought in yᵉ - | | |Dutch and force them |Schonvelt. - | | |to retreat. | - | | | | - ” | June | 4 |2ᵈ engagemᵗ wᵗʰ |True. Fought yᵉ Dutch on - | | |yᵉ Dutch on yᵉ 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 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, - -The last weeke, in a news lettr wrote by a servᵗ 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 accᵗ -given me that you were in the country, thought fitt, before I spake -wᵗʰ Mr. Sawkill, to give you notice hereof, and yᵗ you will readylie -conclude I shall expect satisfaction from him for this scandall, at -least yᵗ 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. - - * * * * * - -[a] Postmaster-General. - - - - -CAPTAIN JOSEPH HADDOCK TO HIS BROTHER, SIR RICHARD HADDOCK. - - Abord the Ship Princess of Denmark, - 17th Xber, 1688. Balasore Roade. - -Sʳ RICHᵈ HADDOCK. - -MY EVER HONᵈ BROTHER, - -My last, of the 7ᵗʰ Augᵗ from Visagapatam, gave yoʳ Honʳ accᵗ of our -arrivall Madras and of our affaires to that tyme. The 10ᵗʰ Augᵗ 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 favourabler then -expected (beinge leape yeare). - -The 15ᵗʰ 7ber Capᵗ Heath arriv’d this place, who, by virtue of the -President and Counsell of Madras order requir’d my goeinge up wᵗʰ hime -to Chuttynutte[a] in the river of Hugly (the place where our Agent -and factorie resided), myselfe wᵗʰ the rest of the comandʳˢ of the -Europe Shipps then in the river to assist hime in the Rᵗ Honᵇˡᵉ Compˢ -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 wᵗʰ -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 settlemᵗ of trade, wᵗʰ prevaledges as formerly accordinge to the 12 -articles formerly sent hime from our agent &c. Capt. Heath, in the -letter sent, condesended to the Nabob’s request, in suplyinge hime wᵗʰ -10 ships and vessells for the Mogull’s occations, to transport ther -soulders and horss, provided they would allow of the buildinge of a -fortyfiction wᵗʰin the river of Hugly, for the better security of the -Rᵗ Honᵇˡᵉ Compˢ estate and serᵗˢ; wᵗʰout wᶜʰ grant of a fortyfied place -the Compˢ ordʳˢ possitive are, to wᵗʰdraw off all our factory from this -place. - -We continued heere 5 weeks for the Nabob’s answer to the proposall: -but not comeing, we, haveinge taken off all the Honᵇˡᵉ Compˢ 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 Rᵗ Honᵇˡᵉ Compˢ -goods, beinge this yeares investmᵗˢ, alsoe partic. mens goods; and -would not permit none of the factors, nor our people that were ashoure -buying provit[ions], to come off. Capᵗ 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 fortyfication), -to demand the Rᵗ Honbᵉ Compˢ 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 wᶜʰ landinge place they had planted 5 small -guns on a sandhill, wᶜʰ they discharg’d at our men, and killd 2 and -wounded 2 more; soe fled from the guns. And soone after, the cheife -capᵗ 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 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] -wᵗʰstood 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 sevˡ of the Moors; -but by the firsness of the fire were forct to surrender themselves on -tearmes to have ther lives and good useage. The next day Capt. Heath -(who went ashoare wᵗʰ the soulders--Capᵗ 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, vizᵗ. Mr. Davenant (beinge ashoare buyinge provit[ions]), -Charles Scarlet, midshipman, and Sam Harbin, gunʳ, serᵗ 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 releasemᵗ. We have sent sevˡ 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 sevˡ Portugeese -houses, and killed sevˡ innocent people. We have had the greatest loss -in this axtion, vizᵗ. 4 men killd and 3 wounded. Ther names are: Mr. -Starland, 3d mate, Henry Grove, cheife trumpetter, Christopher Hogg, -and Jnᵒ Hinton, who very indiscreetly went out wᵗʰ sevˡ more seamen to -a garden house, expectinge great plunder, were cut off, sevˡ of them, -by a party of horss. The 3 wounded are Henʳʸ Roxby, Franˢ Johnson, and -Jnᵒ Smart. - -I have, by the Williamson (by whom this is alsoe intended you), sent -Sʳ Henʳʸ Johnson and Sʳ Tho. Rawlinson, and alsoe to my wife, a list -of our dead &cᵃ men, in all 44. Our supernumery men wᶜʰ I brought out -of England, beinge 27, at my arivall Madras, I aquaintd the President -therwᵗʰ, who offred them to Cap. Bromwell, the Rotchester 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 mᵒ, 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 Rᵗ Honᵇˡᵉ Compᵃ possative orders are for -endeavouringe the takinge it; but I feare we shall not have strength -sufficient to effect it, the Nabob haveinge sent many thousand 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 govermᵗ; 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 Bengall 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, 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 Serᵗ, whilst - - JOˢ HADDOCK. - -Sʳ I recᵈ yoʳ letter, alsoe one from my wife sent per the Defence; and -returne my humble thancks for it. - - For the Honᵇˡᵉ Sʳ Richᵈ Haddock, at his house on Tower Hill. - Present. London. - - Pʳ the Williamson, Capt. Ashby, Comandʳ, D.G. - - * * * * * - -[a] 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 command 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. - -[c] Farwana, the licence granted by a viceroy; as distinguished from a -firman, granted by a sovereign. - - - - -RICHARD HADDOCK[a] TO HIS FATHER, SIR RICHARD HADDOCK. - - Aprill[b] yᵉ 23ᵈ [1692]; Munday, in yᵉ Hooke.[c] - -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 wᶜʰ, have been in pursuit -of yᵐ. There is run ashoare, in Sherbrook bay, Torveil[d] wᵗʰ 3 more -capitall ships, wᶜʰ are now burned. Cozen Tom Heath[e] burnt Torveil; -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 unfortunate as [to] lose Rear Admˡˡ Carter[f] -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 presently; soe, haveing no more att present, butt duty to -your self and my mother, - -I remain your dutyfull Son, - - RICHᵈ HADDOCK. - -Cozen Ruffin is alive and very well. I will write yᵉ particulars of our -fight as soon as wee come into any port. - - Rᵈ H. - - For Sʳ Richᵈ Haddock, att yᵉ Navy Office, in Crutched Fryers, - London. - - * * * * * - -[a] Afterwards Comptroller of the Navy. See Preface. - -[b] A slip of the pen for _May_. - -[c] “The Hooke” and “Sherbrook,” nautical English for La Hogue and -Cherbourg. - -[d] Tourville fought in the great three-decker “Royal Sun,” the largest -vessel afloat. - -[e] Afterwards captain of the Chester. Died in the West Indies in 1693. - -[f] “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, _Hist. of -England_, chap. xviii. - - - - -ISABELLA CHICHELEY[a] 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 drinke 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] Probably related to Admiral Sir John Chicheley. - - - - -SIR RICHARD HADDOCK TO HIS SON RICHARD. - - Navy Office, this 27th Novʳ, 1702. - -DEARE SON, - -I have yoʳˢ of yesterday’s date, from the Downes, wᶜʰ brings us the -joyfull tydeings of yoʳ safe arrivall there. Yoʳ long passage from -Newfoundland put us in great feare of your wellfare, and perticularly -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 Rotta 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 Plymᵒ, and for your boate -wᵗʰ 5 men you say you left behind at Plymᵒ 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 Majᵗʸ and her Allies, 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 Sᵗ Paul’s Church, -where, after sermon, Te Deum was sung. - -Since your leaveing England, two of our bord are dead, vizᵗ. Mr. -Sotherne and my good freind Comʳ Willshaw,[e] 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 -afectionᵗ father, - - Rᵈ HADDOCK. - -Pray let me know how yoʳ shipp proves. I have concernd my selfe 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 Admˡˡ. I know she is tender by your reifeing your courses; -and twas well hinted in yours to yᵉ Admᵗʸ. I am glad you past by Plymᵒ. -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 Majᵗʸ Shipp the Reserve, these present, In yᵉ Downes. - - * * * * * - -[a] In the expedition against Cadiz, the Duke of Ormond effected a -landing at Rota 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 Navalis_, iv. 44, who died in 1726. He may have been the -son of Richard Haddock, Sir Richard’s uncle. - -[e] Thomas Willshaw, Commissioner of the Navy and Master of the Trinity -House. - - - - -THE SAME TO THE SAME. - - Navy Office, this 10ᵗʰ Decembʳ, 1703. - -MY DEARE SON, - -Your letter of the 17ᵗʰ Novʳ past, giveing me accᵗ 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, -hopeing 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 accᵗ -of God Almighty’s wonderfull preservation of you in the late most -dreadfull storm,[a] wᶜʰ no man liveing can remember the like. I -perseave you have had an accᵗ 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 accᵗ of her being on yᵉ back of Yarmᵒ 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 Nicᵒ hapend to be sick -on bord her, as Sʳ S. Fairebone[c] 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 leagˢ from yᵉ Longsᵈ, very neare the Galloper. Yᵉ Sᵗ 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 Nottingham and another man of warr yᵗ went out Yarmᵒ -roads to looke for our shipps. Capt. Kerr[d] in yᵉ Revenge gave accᵗ -that he saw 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 afecᵗ father, - - R. H. - - * * * * * - -[a] On the 26th November. - -[b] Fleetwood Emms. - -[c] Sir Stafford Fairborne, Vice-Admiral of the Red. - -[d] William Kerr. Dismissed the service, in 1708, for joining in a -contraband trade with the enemy. - - - - -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 accoᵗ 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 marrines, Dutch and -all. I commanded yᵉ landing with three captaines 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 cannonading, 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 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[c] 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 5 or 6 wounded. - -July 23rd. At 4 this morning, Admˡ Byng began with his ships to -cannonade, a Dutch Rear Admˡ 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,[d] 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 Admˡ 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 yᵗ remain’d came running -downe and leap’d into the water, being so mightyly surprized. I landed -within a minute 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. Roffy[e] and Capt. Acton,[f] 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, Admˡ Byng came ashore to me and sent in a drumer -wᵗʰ a sommons, who returnd in about 2 hours wᵗʰ 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 accᵗᵗ of -yᵉ whole matter; which I dont doubt butt Capt. Haddock will give yᵉ -much yᵉ same accoᵗᵗ. 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 accoᵗᵗ of yᵉ whole matter. - -I am - -Yʳ most harty humble Serᵗ and kinsman to serve, whilst - - EDWᵈ WHITAKER. - -P.S. This is rite all in a hurry, so yᵗ I hope youle excuse me. - - * * * * * - -[a] Afterwards knighted and Rear-Admiral. This letter has been printed -by Charnock in his _Biographia Navalis_; but it is worth re-printing. - -[b] George, Prince of Hesse-Darmstadt. - -[c] Rooke. - -[d] Afterwards Sir William Jumper, Commissioner of the Navy. - -[e] Kerril or Kerrit Roffey. - -[f] Edward Acton, killed in action in 1706. - - - - -NICHOLAS HADDOCK[a] TO HIS FATHER SIR RICHARD HADDOCK. - - Sᵗ 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 wᵗward -of Barcelona, my Lord Peterborow came of to the fleet wᵗʰ twelve 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 consisted at first of twenty thousand; -four of wᶜʰ, horse under the command of the Duke of Anjou.[b] Their -loss during this seige is computed 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 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 joyfull news in England; and this being the -first certain accᵗ 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 dutifull 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. Wᵗ it may portend, -I leave to the learned. Our fleet consists of 50 saile in the line; 13 -of wᶜʰ, Dutch. - - * * * * * - -[a] Afterwards Admiral. - -[b] Philip V. of Spain. - -[c] Irregulars of the militia of Catalonia. - - - - -THE SAME TO THE SAME. - - Alicant, this 31ˢᵗ of July, 1706. - -HONᵈ Sʳ, - -I have both yʳ letters by Captⁿ Delevall,[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 seamen. I -have been ashore with 50 of our ship’s company during 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 Sᵗ George should not do, -intend asking Sʳ Jnᵒ 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 Rye. - - To Sʳ Richᵈ Haddock, at the Navy Office in Crutched Fryars, - London, these. - - * * * * * - -[a] George Delaval, of the Tilbury. - - - - -SIR RICHARD HADDOCK TO THE COMMISSIONERS OF THE ADMIRALTY. - - 25ᵗʰ July, 1709. - -GENTLEMEN, - -In the yeare 1672 I comanded as Captⁿ of the Royall James, under the Rᵗ -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 reimbursemᵗ. 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 Comʳˢ for Victualling), was taken -into custody at Portsmᵒ, 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 -Admˡˡ 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 -entertainment 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 Admˡˡ, for wᶜʰ 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 servᵗ, - - Rᵈ. HADDOCK. - - * * * * * - -[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. - - - - -SIR RICHARD HADDOCK TO HIS GRANDSON.[a] - - 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 Nichˢ, 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 Satuarday last; tooke -Betty and Fanny Clark[b] downe wᵗʰ them; gote well thither. Yoʳ Unckle -Richard, the weeke past, hath bine very ill wᵗʰ a feavor and ague, -wᶜʰ kept me from hence longer then I designed; is under the advice of -Doctor Ratclif,[c] 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 afecᵗ grandfather, - - Rᵈ. H. - - * * * * * - -[a] This must be a son of Sir Richard’s daughter, who married a Mr. -Lydell. - -[b] Children of another of Sir Richard’s daughters, who married John -Clarke, of Blake Hall, in Bobbingworth, co. Essex. - -[c] No doubt Dr. John Radcliffe. - - - - -CAPTAIN NICHOLAS HADDOCK TO HIS WIFE. - - Grafton 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,[a] on the Island of Sicily, in wᶜʰ severall of their ships -were taken and some destroyd. 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 Lᵗ Bramble, who was appointed by the intrest of Sir -Cha. Wager. I’m sorry for him, he being a good officer. My Cousin -Haddock[b] chased towards the shoar after part of the Spanish fleet, -when they separated, wᵗʰ 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.[c] -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 affecᵗ husband, - - Nˢ. HADDOCK. - - * * * * * - -[a] On the 31st July, when Sir George Byng almost destroyed the Spanish -fleet. - -[b] Probably William Haddock. See above, p. 43, note d. - -[c] Captain Barrow Harris, of the Breda. - - - - -THE SAME TO THE SAME. - - Grafton, at Regio, Janʳʸ the 19ᵗʰ, O.S., 1718/9. - -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, Royˡ Oake, and Rochester, to block up Camock,[a] who is -at Messina and will not venture out, 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 orderd home, 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, - - Nˢ. HADDOCK. - -P.S. This goes for Naples wᵗʰ an express that Capt. Mathews[b] sends to -the Admˡ, and from thence it will be forwarded to you. - - Nˢ. H. - - * * * * * - -[a] George Cammock, the Spanish Rear-Admiral, who had taken refuge -in Messina. He slipped out 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 under Queen Anne, but 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. - -[b] Thomas Mathews, afterwards Admiral, who commanded the blockading -force. - - - - -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 victory, 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 - - 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 Barcelona, 49; - at Cape Passaro, 53; - at Messina, 54 - - Haddock, Richard: 4, 13, 21; - his gallantry, 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 Southwold Bay, 16-19; - wounded, 18; - journal, 22-31; - observations on naval engagements, 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 - - Hayward, John, Captain: 21 - - Heath, Captain: - attacks Balasore, 37-39 - - Heath, Thomas: - gallantry at La Hogue, 41 - - Hesse-Darmstadt, George, Prince of: - at the capture of Gibraltar, 46 - - Hinton, John: 39 - - Hodges, Captain: 44 - - Hogg, Christopher: 39 - - Hogue, 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; 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