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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<P>A TRVE AND FVLL RELATION OF The late Sea Fight, betwixt a Squadron of Ships belong|ing to the Parliament of <HI>England,</HI> and the Queene of <HI>Swethlands</HI> Fleet, upon the Coa&s;t of <HI>England,</HI> neer <HI>Port&s;mouth,</HI> upon Satturday, <HI>May</HI> 1, 1647.</P>
<P>Al&s;o, the manner how Vice-Admirall <HI>Batten,</HI> with the St. <HI>Andrew, Garland, Con|vertine,</HI> and <HI>Mary-Ro&s;e,</HI> met with them towards the Coa&s;t of <HI>France, May</HI> the 3. and brought five of the Queene of <HI>Swethlands</HI> chiefe Ships into the <HI>Downes.</HI> Likewi&s;e the In&s;tructions of the &s;aid Queen to the Commanders in chiefe of this Fleet, together with their Commi&s;&s;ions, and their De&s;igne.</P>
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<P>London, Printed for <HI>E. Golding, May</HI> 10. 1647.</P>
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<HEAD>A FULL RELATJON OF A late Sea-Fight, betwixt the Parlia|ments Ships, and the Queene of Sweathlands, upon the Coa&s;t of <HI>England,</HI> neere <HI>Port&s;|mouth, May</HI> 1.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>SIR,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>On the 2. of this in&s;tant moneth, be|ing the Lords day, our Comman|der in chiefe of the Sea Forces, received a packet from a &s;mall Frigat, that came
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from the Rear-Admirall, who had been in fight th day before with five of the Queen of <HI>Swethlands</HI> &s;hips, and eleven &s;aile of Marchants &s;hips, which they conveyed, being all laden with falt from <HI>Tubey</HI> in <HI>Portingale.</HI></P>
<P>The rea&s;on of the fight was, the Swe|di&s;h &s;hips Wore flags, <HI>viz.</HI> Admirall, Vice-Admiral, and Rear-Admiral, which they refu&s;ed to take in, or to low their top-&s;ales (although commanded by cap. <HI>Owen,</HI> capt. of the Parliaments Reare-Admirall &s;o to do.) Whereupon the &s;aid capt. <HI>Owen</HI> gave them a broad &s;ide, in&s;o|much that divers &s;hot pa&s;t betweene them, and great execution done upon the Switzers, &s;couring their upper decks with &s;mall &s;hot &s;everall times, captain <HI>Owen</HI> lo&s;t not above 8. men, be&s;ides &s;ome few wounded, the fight continued &s;ixe hours, til night began to aproach, where the Swedi&s;h Fleet tooke their opportu|nity, and got away. But &s;o &s;oon as Vice-admirall <HI>Batteu</HI> heard of it, he &s;et &s;aile with the St, <HI>Andrew, Garland, Convertine,</HI> and <HI>Mary-Ro&s;e,</HI> and &s;tood over for the
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Coa&s;t of <HI>France</HI> in the night; and in the morning about 8. of the clock, being the 3. of <HI>May,</HI> near <HI>Bulloign,</HI> he came up with the Admiral of the Swedes &s;hip, who&s;e names was <HI>Martin Ty&s;in,</HI> the &s;hip was called the <HI>Leopard,</HI> and had 32 Guns; the Vice-Admirall <HI>Daniell John&s;on,</HI> a lu&s;ty &s;tout &s;hip, called the <HI>Angel Raphael,</HI> and had 24 Guns; the Rear-admirall the <HI>Ne|ptune, Moris Cook</HI> Captain, with 1<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> guns; the other two &s;hips, of 22 guns a piece, one being called the <HI>Anne-Free;</HI> the other, the <HI>Neptune.</HI></P>
<P>The Captaines of all the&s;e &s;heps, hee commanded aboard, and asked them, what they had done with his Rear-Ad|miral; they at fir&s;t denyed rhat they &s;aw him, but he pre&s;&s;ing it &s;o hard upon them at length confe&s;&s;ed, that they had beene in fight with him, and that the rea&s;on was, becau&s;e they would not take in their flags, being &s;o commanded by their Queen, and had in&s;tructions to thar pur|po&s;e, which he cau&s;ed them to &s;end for, and took Copies of them, which appea|red to be true, in a high manner.</P>
<P><PB REF="4">And they further told our Comman|der Vice-admiral <HI>Batten,</HI> that they would rather dye in honour, then to go home and be hanged, for di&s;obeying their com|mi&s;&s;ions; a brave re&s;olution, &amp; <HI>I</HI> could wi&s;h it were imprinted in the hearts of all our commanders: they further told him, that if their flaggs were then abroad, they would dy before they made one &s;hot at him, though he &s;hot never &s;o many at them, yet would not take them in, and indeed were very re&s;pective to him. But they did much blame the Rear Admirall, for that all the &s;hot he made was at their Vice-admirall, and Rear-admirall, &amp; not at their Admiral, whom he ought fir&s;t to have commanded; the others being &s;ubordinate to his com|mands; &amp; although he was 4. or 5. hours by the Admirals &s;ide, never &s;hot Gun at him, but &s;ent his Boat 3 times aboard. Our Vice-admiral demanded of them, where the Rear-admirall left them, they told him off <HI>Beachy,</HI> which to him did &s;eeme &s;trange, that he &s;hould beginne a quarrell, and not follow them, till hee came

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neer where the Vice-admirall was, ha|ving &s;ent a Frigot to him, to give him intelligence, &amp; might undoubtedly ex|pect his reliefe.</P>
<P>All <HI>Munday</HI> was &s;pent in taking of Examinations, and Copies of Commi&s;|&s;ions; the Swedi&s;h Commanders being detained aboard by our Vice-admirall as pri&s;oners, but u&s;ed with great civili|tie.</P>
<P>At length a Gouncell of Warre was called by our Commander in chief with his Captaines, the re&s;ult whereof was, that the Swedes Vice-admirall, who had beene the man which was mo&s;t active, was with his &s;hip to be carryed into the <HI>Downes,</HI> till the plea&s;ure of the Par|liament be further known, which was done acrordingly, and the next day we arrived in the <HI>Downes,</HI> being the 4. in|&s;tant; the re&s;t of the Swedes in regard of theit &s;hortne&s;&s;e of Victuall, and having charge of the Convoy, were left to their own di&s;po&s;e, and this was performed without &s;hooting &s;o much as a Musket; but truly, if the Queene of <HI>Swethland</HI>
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leave not out that peremptory com|mand in her in&s;tructions, not to &s;trike to any of our Commanders, enjoyned to keepe the Soveraignty of the Seas, and to expect homage from all, even to &s;in|king, or burning, this mu&s;t in time, breed ill bloud between the two Kingdomes, which might be wi&s;ht miaht be pre|vented, by a Letter from our Parliament to the Queen of <HI>Swethland.</HI> Thus have I &s;tiven you a perfect Relation of the whole proceedings. Sir, I have not el&s;e at pre&s;ent, but to let you know, I am</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your most humble &s;ervant, and Kin&s;man, <HI>R. B.</HI></SIGNED>
<DATELINE>Dated at Sea, off <HI>Dover,</HI> <DATE>the 4. of May, 1647.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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