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<P>CAPT. BADILEY'S ANSWER <HI>&V;NTO</HI> Capt. <HI>Appleton's</HI> Remon&s;trance, <HI>Given in</HI> To his Excellency the Lord Generall CROMWELL, And the Right Honourable, the COUNCEL OF STATE. AS ALSO: His true RELATION of what pa&s;t between the Great Duke of <HI>Tu&s;cany,</HI> and him&s;elfe.</P>
<P><HI>WITH Sundry Letters, Affidavits, and Certi|ficates, di&s;covering the Fallaciou&s;ne&s;&s;e of the &s;aid Pamphlet, called</HI></P>
<P>A Remon&s;trance of the Fight in <HI>Legorn</HI>-Road, between the <HI>Engli&s;h,</HI> and the <HI>Dutch.</HI></P>
<P><HI>With &s;ome other particulars, not impertinent to the purpo&s;e, of clearing up the TR&V;TH.</HI></P>
<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed by <HI>M. Simmons,</HI> in <HI>Alder&s;gate</HI>-&s;treet. 1653.</P>
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<HEAD>AN <HI>APPENDIX,</HI> Shewing the Chief Heads, and Principall Things in the en&s;uing An&s;wer.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">For the right under&s;tanding of &s;uch as would in brief be a&s;certained of the Truth.</HEAD>
<P>_PAge the <HI>9</HI> &s;hewes how the dealing of the Remon&s;trancer and his A&s;&s;oci|ates, was like unto them that tri|umph before Victory, but Capt. <HI>Ba|diley</HI> was encourag'd with other thoughts in his home-ward way.</P>
<P>P. <HI>10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18.</HI> &s;hewing how little rea&s;on the above-&s;aid had to be&s;patter their Commander unju&s;tly, if multiplyed acts of civility would have wrought upon them.</P>
<P>Part of <HI>p. 19.</HI> &s;hewes Mr. <HI>Longlands</HI> expre&s;&s;ion and the Remon&s;trancers, differ greatly about Mr. <HI>Red|ding.</HI></P>
<P>P. <HI>20. Mr. Longland</HI> and the decea&s;ed Cap. <HI>Wood</HI> are vindicated, from Capt. <HI>Badileys</HI> experience of their faithfulnes.</P>
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<P>P. <HI>21.</HI> &s;omething is &s;aid to &s;hew the Remon&s;trancers malice, in &s;aying, <HI>The Phenix Frigot was not re|gained by his Order,</HI> and the Great Duke had not com|plained of that, if Capt <HI>Appleton</HI> had not meddled with his Centinell.</P>
<P>P. <HI>22.</HI> it's cleered up to rationall men, the regaining of the <HI>Phenix</HI> Friggot was no di&s;turbance to the Great Dukes Port.</P>
<P>P. <HI>23, 24.</HI> the Remon&s;trancers Fallaciou&s;ne&s;&s;e is di&s;covered, in &s;aying <HI>There was a Treaty between the Engli&s;h and the Dutch,</HI> as al&s;o the impertinacy of his endeavours to acquit the Great Duke from any blame, with &s;ome ob&s;ervable notes.</P>
<P>Part of <HI>p. 21.</HI> and <HI>25.</HI> declaring how marvellou&s;ly it plea&s;ed the Lord alone, to pre&s;erve a confiderable part of the Nations &s;trength and wealth from the Enemy.</P>
<P>P. <HI>26.</HI> &s;hewes how well the weak endeavours of &s;uch of the States &s;ervants, were re&s;ented by the authority of <HI>England,</HI> and withall there is expre&s;&s;ed what unworthy &s;currilous language was given &s;uch not long after, occa&s;i|oned by the fallacious expre&s;&s;ions of the Remon&s;trancer and his A&s;&s;ociates, in their Letters.</P>
<P>P. <HI>27, 28, 29.</HI> relate how it was not Capt. <HI>Badileys</HI> ordering Capt. <HI>Appleton</HI> to ha&s;ten out to him as for life, but his breach of a fir&s;t and &s;econd Order or directi|on, that next to a hand of God again&s;t them, proved the ruine of that Squadron: And Capt. <HI>Wood</HI> at his going out of the world confe&s;t, Capt. <HI>Badiley</HI> was not at all to blame, but them&s;elves, in not following Order.</P>
<P>P. <HI>30, 31.</HI> &s;heweth that Capt. <HI>Badiley</HI> did ha&s;ten in to the reliefe of them who ra&s;hly and indi&s;creetly came out of <HI>Legorn</HI> Mould, with all the &s;ailc was po&s;&s;ible, un|till he came within Musket &s;hot, and then inregard his
<PB N="4" REF="3">&s;hip would not worke, could not get on bord the <HI>Leopard,</HI> or the Enemy on bord her, untill it was judged too late, if it had been to &s;ave the Nation.</P>
<P>P. <HI>31, 32, 33.</HI> &s;heweth not the lea&s;t of Capt. <HI>Apple|ton's</HI> failings, if it was, as he expre&s;&s;eth in his Remon|&s;trance.</P>
<P>P. <HI>33.34, 35, 36.</HI> declares the fallaciou&s;ne&s;&s;e of that part of his Remon&s;trance, which &s;aith Capt. <HI>Ell,</HI> and Capt. <HI>Fi&s;her</HI> would have relieved the <HI>Leopard,</HI> but Capt. <HI>Badiley</HI> would not doe that worke him&s;elfe, nor &s;uffer them to doe it.</P>
<P>P. <HI>37, 38.</HI> doth manife&s;t the great ridiculou&s;ne&s;&s;e and vanity in the Remon&s;trance, to relate what a company of drunken Eum-boat men, or he knowes not who, &s;aid to the reproach of Capt. <HI>Badiley,</HI> upon his leaving <HI>Le|gorn</HI> as he did, thinking thereby to di&s;parage him.</P>
<P>P. <HI>38, 39.</HI> &s;hew what Capt. <HI>Badiley's</HI> endeavours have been, and in the clo&s;e he &s;omewhat pa&s;&s;ionately de|&s;ireth that ju&s;tice and right may take place in this and all other ca&s;es, from a Scripture con&s;ideration; his meaning is, that if he have done wrong to the Remon|&s;trancer, or any others, he may be a &s;ufferer for it; but if the Remon&s;trancer hath heft dirt in the face of the States faithfull Servants mo&s;t wrongfully, he may be made to know it, that others after his example, may not pre&s;ume to doe ami&s;&s;e, contrary to Command, and then be&s;patter their Commanders, in hopes to e&s;cape the la&s;h by &s;uch a Matchevillian practice.</P>
<P>P. <HI>40, 41, 42.</HI> contain a brief ab&s;tract, and what may ju&s;tly be termed the cau&s;es of the great di&s;a&s;ter be|fell that Squadron that was coop'd up &s;o long in <HI>Legorn.</HI> Mould.</P>
<P>P. <HI>43, 44.</HI> &s;peaks out how much Capt. <HI>Badiley</HI> was
<PB N="5" REF="3">&s;en&s;ible of the affront ca&s;t on him in print, and that by the <HI>Printer to the Parliament,</HI> as if they had father'd it; and in all humble manner he clo&s;eth with a word of advi&s;e, lea&s;t &s;uch further mi&s;chief might follow upon it, as may be &s;oener di&s;cerned then remedied.</P>
<P><HI>P. 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50.</HI> containing five Letters from Mr. <HI>Charls Longland,</HI> who therein declares the backwardne&s;&s;e of the &s;hips in <HI>Legorn</HI>-Mould, to come out thence, and that if Capt. <HI>Appleton</HI> would have ta|ken his Coun&s;ell, our conjunction had been effected ere the Dutch fir&s;t Engaged us.</P>
<P><HI>P. 51, 52, 53, 54,</HI> and again <HI>47, 48, 49, 50.</HI> con|taine &s;ix Letters from Con&s;ull <HI>Reed,</HI> declaring how ex|ceeding importunate he had been with Capt. <HI>Appleton,</HI> and al&s;o with Capt. <HI>Sea man</HI> and others, to goe out to a&s;|&s;i&s;t Capt: <HI>Badiley</HI> about <HI>Porto Longone,</HI> but no means could prevail with them.</P>
<P><HI>P. 51, 52.</HI> are two Letters from Capt: <HI>Wood,</HI> and two from Capt: <HI>Cox,</HI> declaring the backwardne&s;&s;e of our States &s;hips, and &s;ome of our Merchant men, to come out of the Mould, and withall complaining of &s;ome who retarded the &s;ervice, and betrayed our de&s;igne on the <HI>Phenix</HI> Frigot.</P>
<P><HI>P. 53, 54, 55.</HI> containe three letters from C: <HI>Apple|ton,</HI> telling C. Badiley in his fir&s;t, he was warping out of Mould, to come away to the a&s;&s;i&s;tance of the &s;hips at <HI>Longone,</HI> but came not, although in his &s;econd letter he &s;aith the Dutch confe&s;&s;ed as there had not been a greater Sea-fight in their remembrance, &s;o they were as much &s;hattered as tho&s;e at <HI>Porto Longone.</HI></P>
<P><HI>P. 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61.</HI> are five letters more from Mr: <HI>Longland,</HI> &s;hewing not onely how we were troubled with fal&s;e brethren, but how gallant an opportunity was
<PB N="7" REF="4">lost by our &s;hips not coming from <HI>Naples,</HI> to <HI>Porto Longone,</HI> and how cauteous he was about impre&s;ting of Merchants &s;hips into the &s;ervice, had not the nece&s;&s;ity of their occa&s;ions required it: And withall he declares how much he was troubled for Capt. <HI>Appleton's</HI> impri&s;on|ment, wherefore he did not triumph in it.</P>
<P><HI>P. 62, 63.</HI> containe two letters from Capt. <HI>Gilbert Roop,</HI> declaring no man would plea&s;e him to command the <HI>Mary,</HI> but <HI>Ben: Fi&s;her.</HI></P>
<P><HI>P. 63, 64.</HI> containe Capt. <HI>Cox's</HI> letter, &s;hewing that bad weather forc't him from Naples to Me&s;&s;ina, with the Harry-Bonaventure.</P>
<P><HI>P. 64, 65.</HI> containe the copy of Capt. <HI>Badiley's</HI> letter to Capt: <HI>Appleton,</HI> March <HI>1</HI> bidding him to hasten to him as for life, if the Dutch came out to engage with the wind off &s;hore, although afterwards he was ordered to the contrary.</P>
<P><HI>P. 66.</HI> containes a letter from Mr. <HI>Longland,</HI> tel|ling Capt: <HI>Badiley</HI> the Great Duke would not let loo&s;e the Dutch he had in pri&s;on, unle&s;&s;e <HI>Van Gallen</HI> would agree to come out, and fight us without the Malora.</P>
<P><HI>P. 67, 68.</HI> &s;hew fir&s;t the contents of Capt. <HI>Badiley's</HI> letter to Capt. <HI>Appleton,</HI> March <HI>3.</HI> at four a clock in the morning, if his memory doe not greatly faile, which ap|peares by his An&s;wer annexed, at <HI>4</HI> a clocke in the after|noone.</P>
<P><HI>P. 69.</HI> containes Mr. <HI>Longlands</HI> la&s;t letter before our Engagement, cau&s;ing &s;ome to doubt we were dealt withall as tho&s;e that were betrayed.</P>
<P><HI>P. 70.</HI> containes the Re&s;olves of Coun&s;els of Warre, which is not hand&s;ome to publi&s;h, but as we u&s;e to &s;ay, Nece&s;&s;ity hath no law, without it &s;ome men will not know where to lay the blame. The Author hereof &s;uppo&s;es
<PB N="6" REF="4">he is more troubled then any man in <HI>Engl:</HI> to think that, &s;uch things as the&s;e &s;hould come to publick view.</P>
<P><HI>P. 71, 72.</HI> Two Letters under Mr. <HI>Longland's</HI> hande &s;hewing the i&s;&s;ue of the Tragedy neer <HI>Legorn</HI>-road, the <HI>4</HI> of March la&s;t, and the &s;currilous language and great abu&s;e of C: <HI>Seaman,</HI> to whom he had been &s;o courteous.</P>
<P><HI>P. 73,</HI> unto <HI>92.</HI> Certain Affidavits clearing up the truth to all rationall men.</P>
<P><HI>P. 93</HI> A relation about C. <HI>John Wad&s;worth.</HI></P>
<P><HI>P. 94.</HI> C. Wad&s;worth's Letter to M: Longland, com|plaining of the failings of the Commanders of the Fri|gots, but of none el&s;e-where; And a Certificate from one, which might have been &s;igned by others.</P>
<P><HI>P. 96.</HI> &s;hewing <HI>C: Badiley</HI> very moderate in relating how the <HI>Phenix</HI> was lost.</P>
<P><HI>P. 97.</HI> &s;hewing how <HI>C:</HI> Wad&s;worth's folly cau&s;ed complaints to be made of him.</P>
<P><HI>P. 98, 99.</HI> &s;hewing that by his Letter and otherwi&s; as by Certificate appeareth, he &s;ully acquitteth C: Badi|ley from any blame.</P>
<P><HI>P. 99, 100.</HI> The fir&s;t Letter from the Great Duke, af|ter the regaining of the Frigot, complaining of C: Apple|ton's a&s;&s;aulting his Centinell, but nothing of the <HI>Fenix.</HI></P>
<P><HI>P. 110.</HI> Something is &s;poken in an&s;wer to Signior Mountemagnies relation.</P>
<P><HI>P. 101, 102, 103.</HI> containes the Great Dukes Letter of Credence, with what di&s;cour&s;e pa&s;t between Signior Mountemagnie the Great Dukes Secretary, and C: <HI>Badi|ley,</HI> near Legorn, about the end of Feb: la&s;t.</P>
<P><HI>P. 104.</HI> containes a Letter from C: Badiley, to the Great Duke, occa&s;ioned by the in&s;olency of the Dutch.</P>
<P><HI>P. 105, 106.</HI> conteins his rea&s;ons for writing that Letter, and an An&s;wer from the Great Duke tran&s;lated.</P>
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<P><HI>P. 107, 108, 109.</HI> containing the la&s;t di&s;cour&s;e <HI>C: Badiley</HI> had with the Great Dukes Secretary, and how earne&s;t he was for <HI>30</HI> or <HI>40</HI> dayes time, untill our &s;hips could be got together.</P>
<P><HI>P. 110, 111.</HI> containing his la&s;t letter to the Great Duke, wherein he earnestly de&s;ires that he would be plea|&s;ed to move that as well for keeping his Port unviolated, as for other rea&s;ons, our conjunction with the Squadron in <HI>Legorn</HI> might be effected.</P>
<P>P. <HI>112, 113, 114.</HI> containes certaine propo&s;itions hee made for bringing about what is before denoted, with his rea&s;ons for it.</P>
<P><HI>P. 114, 115.</HI> containes the Great Dukes la&s;t letter to him, telling him he might have &s;taid till the <HI>8</HI> or <HI>18</HI> of March, before the &s;hips in <HI>Legorn</HI>-Mould went forth, if wind and weather hindred, that we could not come neer one another &s;ooner, and no other liberty could be ob|tained.</P>
<P><HI>P. 116, 117.</HI> Some fallacious pa&s;&s;ages in Sig: Moun|temaignes Relation, are an&s;wered: And a notable di&s;co|very of truth, by way of Query <HI>p. 118.</HI> where the blame may be ju&s;tly laid, in regard of the late di&s;a&s;ter.</P>
<P><HI>P. 119, 120.</HI> &s;hewing the i&s;&s;ue of what refers to the Great Duke, with an Apology for <HI>C: Badiley,</HI> lea&s;t a|ny thing hath &s;lipt his pen that &s;hould be di&s;ta&s;tfull, and withall in the clo&s;e there is a &s;hort expre&s;&s;ion, &s;hewing his amazement, that after his great endeavours for publick good, he is by the <HI>Printer to the Parliament,</HI> ren|dred lyable to contempt.</P>
<P>&rindx; <HI>In mo&s;t of the&s;e Books is Capt. <HI>Badiley's</HI> An&s;wer to Capt.</HI> Seaman, <HI>Capt.</HI> Ell, <HI>and Cap.</HI> Fi&s;hers <HI>Declarations.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>Captain <HI>Badeley</HI>'s An&s;wer, unto Captain <HI>Appleton's</HI> Remon&s;trance, or (at lea&s;t) that part which he judgeth concerns him in any kind to An&s;wer: as it was given in to the Committee of <HI>Scoth</HI> and <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> Affairs, with very little Digre&s;&s;ion.</HEAD>
<P>_IT's more then three months &s;ince I came home, out of the Mediteranian Sea; and none, high or low, hath &s;aid to my face, this or that hath bin il done by you, whil&s;t you were on the &s;aid Voiage.</P>
<P>Yet about the time that Captain <HI>Appleton's</HI> Remon&s;trance was given in, as tho&s;e that triumph before Victory, news mu&s;t needs be carried to my Relations in Fa|mily (while&s;t I was ab&s;ent) a file of Mu&s;quetiers was provi|ded for me, to carry me to the Power; another friend com|ing to my hou&s;e, &s;aid, the Watermen upon the Thames gave out I was gone to pri&s;on, and this Report was rai&s;ed about <HI>Chattam,</HI> and the <HI>Exchange:</HI> But when I heard thereof, and that &s;ome were troubled at it, I an&s;wered; <HI>One that is accu&s;ed of theft, and never plaid the Thief, either directly, or indirectly, he knows not wherein he is guilty: So I know not of any offence to the State, that I can be made capable of.</HI> Surely therefore, before they do &s;uch a thing, they will tell me for what, and wherefore it is.</P>
<P>I &s;hal now crave leave to make a little further deviation, before I come to an&s;wer the contrivers of the Remon&s;trance, who have thereby kindled a fire which is like to end I know not where. And in the fir&s;t place I &s;hall lay down before you, how I have laboured to deliver, and by multiplyed acts of civility have endeavoured to ingage the&s;e who appear a|gain&s;t me.</P>
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<P>He &s;aith in his <HI>Remon&s;trance,</HI> whereas his &s;icknes and Cap|tain <HI>Witherages</HI> death was cau&s;e of his not coming forth to a&s;&s;i&s;t me (although I wanted not Information enough) as by the Letters appeareth, which herewith I pre&s;ent you, how backward he was to come out, and how unready the Ships were to do &s;ervice: &s;o that among others, his great Friend, the great Duke, that knew very wel how he did, expounded it not to be &s;ickne&s;s, but treachery; for who knows not, that a man may draw up a Commi&s;&s;ion in an hour, and he might have done it as well then for Captain <HI>Line,</HI> as he did after|wards to jo&s;tle out Captain <HI>Cox:</HI> And if a man have an Ague, or &s;ome &s;uch &s;mal di&s;temper, an Engagement with the Ene|mie may &s;hake it off &s;ooner, then a Cartooch of <HI>Grego.</HI> But if it would not, mu&s;t therefore &s;uch a peice of the Nations &s;trength lye &s;till, when there is an opportunity of doing &s;er|vice, and in his power either to put in another man, or el&s;e to &s;it in his Gabbin and order others to do the bu&s;ine&s;s? And although in his fir&s;t, &s;econd, and third Letter he mentions nothing of his &s;ickne&s;s to me; and though Mr. <HI>Morgan Reed</HI> the Nations Con&s;ul, laments to me greatly of his dulne&s;s in &s;everal Letters within a few days one after another; as al&s;o Mr. <HI>Longland</HI> the States publick Mini&s;ter in &s;undrie of his Letters, &s;aying, he had little or no mind to do &s;ervice for the State; and in one Letter &s;aith, If Captain <HI>Appleton</HI> would have followed his coun&s;el (rather then the advice of others, the chief of which he declares in &s;ome Letters, made open defiance to the State) we bad joyn'd our Forces, and &s;o I had not been left to fight the Enemie all alone; and notwith|&s;tanding much more wrote again&s;t him by Captain <HI>Wood</HI> and others, for his backwardne&s;s; yet for all this, when I wrote to the Higher Powers about him, I did, as it were, take a Mantle and cover his failings, and mi&s;carriages, u&s;ing but his own words, &s;aying, I beleeved, or judg'd his &s;ickne&s;s and Captain <HI>Withrages</HI> death retarded the coming out of tho&s;e Ships to our a&s;&s;i&s;tance Again, when he did that filly act in his own per&s;on, fetching a <HI>Dutch</HI> man out of the Great Dukes Centinels hou&s;e, becau&s;e he re&s;cued the <HI>Fleming:</HI> Up|on which came all our trouble about the <HI>Phaenix,</HI> as &s;aith
<PB N="11" REF="6">Mr. <HI>Longland</HI> by his Letters; and he that will open his eyes, may &s;ee, that if that fooli&s;h bu&s;ine&s;s had not been, there had not an extraordinary Me&s;&s;enger been &s;ent from the great Duke into <HI>England,</HI> complaining of him; and con&s;equently there had not been &s;o much di&s;content given him in the An|&s;wer by that per&s;on, as made the Dukes Secretary &s;ay pub|lickly on the place of <HI>Legorn,</HI> the Parliament of <HI>England</HI> had &s;ent his Ma&s;ter &s;o much poy&s;on when they &s;ent him that Letter.</P>
<P>I &s;ay, notwith&s;tanding this, when as he was &s;ent to me as a Pri&s;oner to <HI>Porte Longone,</HI> that I might do ju&s;tice on him, really pittying his Condition, I de&s;ired &s;ome of our Cap|tains to wait on him from <HI>Porta Feraro;</HI> and when he came, although &s;omthing was done in a private civil way, that the Duke might not be greatly enrag'd, when as we &s;hould ap|pear to mock at his ju&s;tice; yet he knows I did effectually end eavour to help him out of that trouble; and when he had made his <HI>Remon&s;trance</HI> to &s;end home, wherein he weakly declared his men forc'd him a&s;hore to the Mould, I hope him to make a better <HI>Remon&s;trance</HI> then &s;o; and if he had come to acknowledg'd my Favours, I might have helpt him to draw up one now, according to the tenor of Truth more to his re|pute then this, that is ful of horrid Fal&s;ities; If I had direct|ed him to write thus, it had been according to very truth, Briefly.</P>
<P>When God was plea&s;ed to give us a very good opportu|nity, in&s;omuch that we might have relieved C. <HI>Badiley,</HI> if we had had hearts to have been unanimous, and had vigorou&s;|ly pro&s;ecuted it, or had wils to take his coun&s;el in coming out in the night, as we ought to have done; but omitting it, the Lord was plea&s;ed &s;o to order it, by the alteration of Winds which are in his fi&s;ts, that when the &s;aid <HI>Badiley</HI> would have reliev'd us, and have cleer'd us of <HI>Legorn,</HI> he was made unable and uncapable of hindring, or preventing our Ruin and De&s;truction.</P>
<P>To come to the bu&s;ine&s;s of <HI>Legorn,</HI> when he came thither in his home-ward way, at the time when the great Duke had newly declared we mu&s;t be gone to engage the Enemie, let
<PB N="12" REF="7">the ods be what it will; I &s;ay &s;eeing me now bu&s;ie in fitting the Ship with all Accoutrements for an engagement, and filing a Ve&s;&s;el with Lumber to make the Ships ready and clear, when as he was making up his things to go for <HI>Genoa,</HI> for his friend. The great Duke declared he &s;hould not &s;tay in his Territories, or come a&s;hore into his Town, he comes to me; Oh &s;aith he, this almo&s;t breaks my heart, to think that you &s;hould go to fight, and I go home to an&s;wer what is al|ledg'd again&s;t me. My Lieutenant al&s;o having heard him &s;adly expre&s;s, he knew they &s;ent for him into <HI>England</HI> to que|&s;tion his life: Truly I could not but pity the man, and an|&s;wered, Captain <HI>Appleton,</HI> it's a dangerous thing to dally with the Commands of the Councel of State: But &s;ince the Captain of this Ship, <HI>Jonas Pool,</HI> cannot be &s;ent for from <HI>Ve|nice</HI> in any time, if you be real indeed, and that your peace can be made with the great Duke, I will be your friend to further you all that lyeth in my power, and to that purpo&s;e Mr. <HI>Longland</HI> and a Councell of Officers &s;hall be called toge|ther to con&s;ider of the bu&s;ine&s;s; and there upon Debate it was concluded in the Affirmative, if he could procure that leave as before: Oh but then how &s;hould he get that leave! I an&s;wered not (at that private meeting or Councell) as he in his <HI>Remon&s;trance</HI> (like &s;ome Chancery Bils) &s;aith, it was then agreed he &s;hould give &s;ix hundred Dollars to buy his peace, which is a mo&s;t notorious untruth, there was not one word about Dollars &s;poken there; but I &s;aid to him, your be&s;t way in my opinion was, to confer with Con&s;ul <HI>Read,</HI> who hath great friends at Court, and it may be by means of a little greace to his Highne&s;s Secretary, or Ma&s;ter of the Ceremonies, and upon your humble &s;ubmi&s;&s;ion he wil remit your offence; and it &s;eems it was &s;o effected after I was gone: but if it co&s;t him more to do it then his fea&s;ting with the great Duke was worth, it will &s;hew he hath been as &s;imple as he is now malitious. In all ages &s;ome there be that will reward others evil for their good; I think it would have been a good bu&s;ine&s;s for this man, who feared the que&s;tioning of his life at home, to have an opportunity given him, that by his Gal|lantry in Service, he might have done &s;omthing to remove
<PB N="13" REF="7">that fear, as al&s;o the di&s;-reputation, which otherwi&s;e he could not.</P>
<P>And then as to his Engagement at la&s;t, wheras no effectu|al cour&s;e was taken to rid him&s;elf of tho&s;e &s;hips that were on board him, after our example in the <HI>Paragon,</HI> who notwith|&s;tanding a great number of men were killed and wounded on the upper Deck and el&s;e-where, to the number of about four&s;core, &s;o that all was ordered to withdraw thence but the Commander him&s;elf; and howbeit almo&s;t as many were run down into holes, the Enemy being bord and bord: and although the Fleet had all left her without any encourage|ment, yet three or four&s;core men was got up to bear away the Enemy by main force of hand; how much more &s;hould they have done it, that had &s;o much encouragement as their Admiral, and other their friends, to be within two or three &s;hips length of them; and although I was &s;o neer as about Musket-&s;hot off, about half an hour together, not &s;eeing a Man, &s;tirring upon the upper Deck, I think it a great fault in a wi&s;e Vice-admiral, what ever it be thought of the <HI>Remon|&s;trancer:</HI> And although an Anchor was not let go, which was the duty of his place to have order'd, for &s;o the Ship in all likelihood had been &s;av'd. Nay, as there is good te&s;timony, although I had heard, when my Lieutenant was on bord the <HI>Leopard,</HI> to tell him how effectually I recommended to him the coming forth; but they neglecting it, his Mate <HI>Wrighting|ton,</HI> whom he highly commended to me, I am &s;ure a man that knew when it was a fit &s;ea&s;on for them to &s;ail, he was at their neglect &s;o tran&s;ported in pa&s;&s;ion, that he either &s;tampt, or tore his hair, or u&s;ed &s;ome &s;uch ge&s;ture, &s;aying, <HI>The&s;e cur&s;ed men</HI> (meaning the Captains) <HI>are be&s;otted, or bewitched to this Mould; why cannot we go to Sea now we have &s;o gallant an opportu|nity, and that the Admiral &s;ends for us.</HI></P>
<P>I &s;ay, that neither in my Narrative, nor el&s;e how I &s;hould cry up this mans faults, but rather take a garment to cover them, when as I &s;ay he was forward to come out, but over|powred by others, forbore it; yet after all, that a mans heart &s;hould be &s;o like a Forge, to blow up coals of Mi&s;chief and Fal&s;ities on another (which are like to fall on him&s;elf) could
<PB N="14" REF="8">hardly have been imagined, but that Experience &s;hews it.</P>
<P>One word more of the Witne&s;&s;es, by many Letters that came to <HI>Porte Longone</HI> from Mr. <HI>Longland,</HI> Con&s;ul <HI>Read,</HI> and others, wherein was Complaints upon Complaints of Cap|tain <HI>Seaman,</HI> and another. I &s;ay, what&s;oever reports came from <HI>Legorn</HI> concerning their backwardne&s;s, or rather &s;tub|bornne&s;s to come out with others of their Neighbours under the &s;ame obligation with them&s;elves, as we u&s;e to &s;ay; he that hath but half an eye in his head, and one dram of ho|ne&s;ty in his heart, knowing what then pa&s;t, as that there was but four &s;hips of the Enemies in <HI>Legorn</HI> Road; and as Cap|tain <HI>Appleton</HI> him&s;elf confe&s;&s;eth, the Enemie that fought us was &s;hattered as much as we: if they had come to our Relief, we mu&s;t have been (in humane appearance) in <HI>England</HI> with the Merchants great Cargazon long before the la&s;t yeer end|ed. And yet I wrote not any thing to tho&s;e in Power or any others that I remember again&s;t the&s;e by name, that were the cau&s;e of &s;o much lo&s;s and damage as the Nation received thereby.</P>
<P>Again, about the beginning of <HI>February</HI> la&s;t, &s;eeing a &s;tout gale of wind of the &s;hore, it was much on my heart to go out at that time; and &s;eeing but nine of the Enemies men of War in the Road, and there could be expected but two more in the Offing: A Councel of Officers being called, the Que&s;tion was carried from me, and an&s;wered in the Negative; and why Captain <HI>Seaman,</HI> &s;aid he? it's the way to lo&s;e three or four good &s;hips, &s;hewing cowardize enough I think. It was replyed, not &s;o I trow; here is be&s;ides others the <HI>Leopard,</HI> the <HI>Bonaventure,</HI> the <HI>Samp&s;on;</HI> and &s;ince I have gone to Sea, any one of the&s;e would not fear half a dozen, or the whole num|ber of the&s;e our Antagoni&s;ts; but what &s;aid Mr. <HI>Longland</HI> to me, you do but &s;trive again&s;t the Stream, in &s;eeking to get out the&s;e Ships, they think they &s;hall have their pay, and then it's no matter what &s;ervice they do; you mu&s;t get Ships el&s;e-where to fetch them hence, if you will make any u&s;e of them; whereupon I wrote (upon that very &s;core) &s;omewhat pa&s;&s;ionately unto the Councel of State among other matters, the en&s;uing pa&s;&s;age.</P>
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<PB N="15" REF="8">
<OPENER><SALUTE>Right Honorable,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P><HI>THe Merchant Ships impre&s;ted will be little better man'd, then when they carried Merchants goods: However, if it plea&s;eth God to open a way that the greate&s;t part of our Ships can joyn; and that it will not be judged too great a pre&s;umption, I &s;hall endeavour to fight the Enemie, that the &s;hips in the Mould may be freed hence. I do not in the lea&s;t doubt, but your Honors hath the Common wealths affairs in the&s;e parts under con&s;ideration: Yet I be&s;eech you give me leave humbly to minde you, that &s;ome a&s;&s;i&s;tance (when lea&s;t) what is &s;ignified in former Letters, &s;eems to be mo&s;t nece&s;&s;arie, not onely in re|&s;pect to the Honour of our Nation, which is &s;o much concerned in this Tran&s;action, at &s;uch a place e&s;pecially, which in &s;ome &s;en&s;e may be called the Centre of Trade, upon which is the eye of all</HI> Europe: <HI>But it is re|ported P.</HI> Rupert <HI>may be here every day with his prizes from the We&s;t Indies, according to his own intimation by Letters; and if he comes before our conjunction, what di&s;order our Marriners may be put into, cannot be fore-&s;een, be&s;ides that other inconvenience. Ordinarily mens &s;pirits are deba&s;ed to lie &s;o long together without any &s;uccour from their friends. I humbly conceive, if half a dozen Ships or Frigots had been &s;ent out to us, when it was fir&s;t known in what a condition we were in after our di&s;pute, I do verily beleeve we had been in</HI> Eng|land, <HI>peradventure to have a&s;&s;i&s;ted in the la&s;t Engagement again&s;t the</HI> Dutch, <HI>whereas now a con&s;iderable part of the Nations &s;trength lyeth at no ea&s;ie expence, to little or no purpo&s;e.</HI></P>
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<P>I al&s;o wrote to the Generals of the Fleet, and the Copy of that Letter is hereunto annexed.</P>
<LETTER LANG="eng">
<OPENER><SALUTE>Honorable,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P><HI>SInce &s;ending forward unto your Honours the Originall to the fore|going Copy, there hath been various Tran&s;actions, which cals for immediate Con&s;ideration from &s;uch as &s;it at &s;tern: Hearing you are like to be at Sea before this comes to band, I thought it my duty to write my mind freely and largely unto the Councel of State, that in plain Engli&s;h (by one means or another) their Affairs in the&s;e Parts may be rightly under&s;tood; here inclo&s;ed is the Copy of my late Letters to them, unto which I humbly refer you for advice of &s;uch Occurrances as pa&s;|&s;eth among us in the Mediterranean Sea, not doubting but your Ho|nours will put to your helping hands for what &s;hall be judged mo&s;t
<PB N="16" REF="9">nece&s;&s;ary to be done, not only in reference to the freedom, and reprievall of &s;ome of your old &s;ervants from out of a labyrinth of Sares but chief|ly in regard of the honour of the Nation, which is &s;o much concern'd in point of our &s;upplyment, with &s;ome additional &s;trength.</HI></P>
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<P>I wrote al&s;o another Letter to a Friend at <HI>White-Hall,</HI> to this effect: <HI>I wi&s;h it may not &s;o fall out, that the State had better give a hundred thou&s;and pounds a &s;hip, and ten pounds a month to a Marriner, then that their &s;hips &s;hould lie in</HI> Legorn <HI>Mould &s;o long, without any relief.</HI></P>
<P>And further; however I wrote not a word again&s;t this man, but when I came to &s;peak of the <HI>Samp&s;on</HI> in my Narra|tive, hid all his failings, &s;aying; That the Ship being taken aback&s;taies, the Enemy had opportunity to fire her: yet Mr. <HI>Longland,</HI> (who I beleeve would write no &s;uch thing without good proof) &s;aith, it's no &s;uch matter; The Captain and Company run under hatches, and did not look after trim|ming of Sails as they &s;hould have done.</P>
<P>But now, as if he were no &s;mall Proficient in <HI>Machiavels</HI> School, in hopes that &s;omething may &s;tick, writes hideous things again&s;t me, that made &s;ome of his Kindred talk of coming to Execution Dock, of tho&s;e that with-drew from <HI>Legorn;</HI> and &s;ince his return for <HI>England,</HI> his malice hath been let out to the full, charging me with horrid falficies.</P>
<P>Capt. <HI>Mar&s;h</HI> another of the Witne&s;&s;es, knoweth very well that when his great failings hath much tran&s;ported me, &s;o after keen arguments in private, and promi&s;e of amend|ment, I have been civil towards him: And though he hath put his hand to Capt. <HI>Appletons</HI> Remon&s;trance, that would make men believe Mr. <HI>Longland</HI> were one of the verie&s;t Vil|lains in the world; yet coming to my hou&s;e &s;ince his coming home, he told me he could not but vindicate Mr. <HI>Longland,</HI> when he was &s;poke again&s;t, and therefore in their home|ward way, he was call'd by the re&s;t, <HI>Longlands</HI> creature, but it may be this man was meerly drawn in, and therefore I pitie him.</P>
<P>Again Captain <HI>Ell,</HI> after he had pre&s;umptuou&s;ly left the Convoy, where all care was taken for his pre&s;ervation, once and again, being come to <HI>Me&s;&s;ina,</HI> upon his acknowledgment
<PB N="17" REF="9">I pa&s;s'd tho&s;e things by. Four dayes after, in <HI>Circa,</HI> being a|bout ten leagues from <HI>Zant,</HI> he tels me he had a mind to be gone for <HI>Smirna;</HI> but I an&s;wered, have a care what you do, le&s;t you loo&s;e the &s;hip your friends have intru&s;ted you with|all, I mu&s;t carry my bu&s;ine&s;s before me, in regard the <HI>Harry</HI> &s;tops there: but I intend not to Anchor there, if the wind be fair. Well &s;aith he, I will &s;peak with you again, yet did not, &s;lipping away in the night. But though pragmaticall &s;elf-conceitedne&s;s was judg'd a higher Tower then the Convoy, it was a thou&s;and to one it had not occa&s;ioned his Mer|chant, and Owners to bid farewell to their Ship and Goods, for had not a &s;trong gale of wind brought him in after us to <HI>Zant,</HI> four <HI>Turks</HI> Men of War had call'd him to an account, This made me hint to the Committee of the Navy, how the Convoy was &s;lighted, as it was by him unto the very la&s;t. But to &s;ee how things are carried by way of Retalio, he and others wel know, and the <HI>Levant</HI> Companies pur&s;es hea+vie&s;t feel.</P>
<P>Yet being he had embraced the States Service afterwards, I advis'd him, no man &s;hould be more willing to pa&s;&s;e by prejudicatedne&s;&s;e of opinion again&s;t him, then my &s;elf, as may appear by my Letters to him: However, after he had been in the &s;ervice of the State a few weeks, I &s;ent him an Order to go for <HI>Naples,</HI> or <HI>M<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">na:</HI> yet he &s;tayes, putting the State unto charge of &s;ome hundred pounds, which fault he laid on his men; and although I have heard the contrary, yet I winked at that time, and hitherto mentioned nothing of it.</P>
<P>Next, in our Engagement at <HI>Legorn,</HI> &s;uch was his failing, that I told him and others, at our very next meeting, after we came thence: Tho&s;e that had nimble &s;hips were extream|ly too blame: But &s;aid I, &s;ince we are home-ward bound, and I know not what eminent Service we may be call'd too for the Honour of the Nation, I will not cau&s;e contention now among you; but where ever there hath been a failing, let every man amend one next time, and one would have thought it would have wrought upon ingenious &s;pirits.</P>
<P>But after we came to the Bay of <HI>Legos,</HI> I &s;ent a Warrant
<PB N="18" REF="10">to him to &s;pare two men, exchange of 2 <HI>Dutch</HI> men, to help man the <HI>Augu&s;tine</HI> Prize, yet he ab&s;olutely refu&s;ed it, al|though earne&s;tly advis'd to the contrary by Captains, and others about him, that told him he could never an&s;wer it, yet peremptorily he denied it. Whereupon I bid the Cap|tains, and others about me to take notice; he and his Con|&s;ort <HI>Fi&s;her,</HI> that made the like refu&s;al, were di&s;charg'd out of the States &s;ervice, and that I would never give them any kind of order more, untill we came to the Generals, where their contempt &s;hould be laid open, and I did forbear know|ing any of them a long time.</P>
<P>But at length through per&s;wa&s;ion of friends, and their own &s;ollicitations in publique and private, to forgive that one failing, what amendment &s;hould I &s;ee, I was prevailed with all to lay a&s;ide prejudice.</P>
<P>Although I &s;uppo&s;e by this time, that he very well knew that howbeit upon his own quarter Deck (as &s;ome prag|maticall men in former times have done) he might cry, <HI>Am not I king now? am not I King now?</HI> Yet by the Laws Martial, which were either made to be put in Execution, or to be like Bug-bears which are to skare children, all the Councel he can find in <HI>England,</HI> can hardly &s;ave him from a mo&s;t &s;e|vere &s;entence for his contempt.</P>
<P>Again, coming into the <HI>Downes,</HI> this Captain Ell comes to me in the Evening, de&s;iring he might have leave to go to <HI>Canterburie</HI> to meet his Wife; yea &s;aid I, go, but pray be here &s;peedily, I know not what Orders may come from Au|thority, nor who &s;uddenly may appear on the back of the <HI>Goodwin</HI> to engage us; In words he would comply, and re|turn accordingly; but was wanting thence ten dayes, and upward, as if (at lea&s;t) he were a Prince, not to be accomp|table for any di&s;&s;ervice to the State, which cau&s;ed his men to mutiny, when his Ship was ordered to go to Sea. All this time I wrote nothing again&s;t him.</P>
<P>Next they bring in one <HI>Whiting,</HI> that was heard &s;ay &s;o, and &s;o, it may be it is true as &s;poken from him; but I deny that I ever &s;pake &s;uch things, neither is there any rea&s;on or &s;en&s;e for why I &s;hould. But admit the latter had been true,
<PB N="19" REF="10">it would have &s;hewed ingratitude enough in him, a man who&s;e life and freeedom I had fir&s;t beg'd of the great Duke, and then at my reque&s;t his e&s;tate, and his worthy and grate|full friends (by the rule of contraries) to the value of 3000 crowns, and the &s;hip, all &s;entenc'd for lo&s;t, and confi&s;cated, were reprieved, remitted, and given back to them; at length being made Commander of the Fire-&s;hip, his wretched cowardize in not pro&s;ecuting the work he was &s;ent about, with Main-&s;aile and all: which had he done, having &s;uch an opportunity as he had upon the <HI>Dutch Admiral,</HI> for ought I know it might have turn'd the day; and then the ba&s;e lea|ving the next man to him&s;elf behind him, would have caus'd many a man to have brought him home in chains, and tryed him for his life; and if &s;o, I know not what would have become of him.</P>
<P>In fine, I have alwayes endeavour'd to govern with &s;ere|nity, mixt with &s;ome authority, and rather by multiplyed acts of Civility have laboured to engage them, then by ri|gorou&s;ne&s;&s;e to di&s;hearten them: and let who&s;e will &s;ay to the contrary, I have been alwayes ready to cry up to the height in any &s;ervice of worth in them, and have covered all fail|ings at the &s;ame time, as my Letters to Authority do witne&s;&s;e for me.</P>
<P>But we &s;ee not only many of the Proverbs fulfill'd now and then, but old Stories. Wa&s;h &s;ome creatures ears with never &s;o much water, and they will be no whiter, heap coals of love on &s;ome, and they will turn back coals of fire on you, when it lies in their power, Traytor or any thing they wil not baulk at.</P>
<P>But not to be tedious in rehear&s;ing ingratitude, I &s;hall re|turn to the <HI>Remon&s;trance,</HI> where I find Mr. <HI>Redding</HI> magnified in an employment he was &s;ent on by M. <HI>Longland,</HI> who with the decea&s;ed Captain <HI>Wood,</HI> is vilified to &s;ome purpo&s;e.</P>
<P>A word of the former, of whom <HI>Ditto,</HI> Mr. <HI>Longland</HI> en|form'd me &s;omething, as that Captain <HI>Appleton</HI> &s;hould create him Agent, and that he went to <HI>Florence</HI> contrary to his ad|vice, and at the great Dukes Court he made Ma&s;ter <HI>Longland</HI> be look'd on as an Impo&s;tor, which forc'd him to &s;end away
<PB N="20" REF="11">from <HI>Florence</HI> in the night for his Commi&s;&s;ion. I al&s;o heard him &s;ay, that for ranting in <HI>Naples,</HI> wherein he and his Com|pany kill'd a Child, or for &s;hooting at the Ju&s;tice, he was ar|raign'd at the Bar on life and death; yet by crying out he was forc'd to fly from his Country in his Kings Cau&s;e, it fell out &s;o, that he was &s;av'd on a general day of grace, and &s;et free with fellons, and murtherers: but as for &s;ervice for the Common wealth of <HI>England,</HI> I heard of none he did; yet if by a day of grace of greater advantage, his &s;pirit is changed, that now he &s;hal think of doing it in good earne&s;t, I &s;hall be very glad.</P>
<P>Next a word of Mr. <HI>Longland,</HI> one of the abu&s;ed per&s;ons in charity I can do no le&s;&s;e then &s;peak out a word of my knowledg concerning him, and the dead: It's 16. yeers &s;ince I knew Mr: <HI>Longland</HI> fir&s;t at <HI>Aleppo,</HI> and as he then &s;hewed him&s;elf as grave; &s;ober, di&s;creet, and as religious a Mer|chant as ever I met withall abroard: So ever &s;ince the Parli|ament begun (oppo&s;e who would) as there wanted not Scoffers, and Oppo&s;ers enough in tho&s;e parts, he would &s;till ju&s;tifie the Parliaments proceedings, and the Armies, as by very many Letters of his appeareth altogether as freely and effectually before, as &s;ince he was the States &s;ervant: &s;o that although they might have Friends abroad, I am confident they had no man like minded, that hath made it &s;o much his &s;tudy to advance the Benefit, and honour of the Nation, and good people in his re&s;tle&s;&s;e motions that way, and to rejoyce at their good &s;ucce&s;&s;e, as if he were to be look'd up|on more like a State&s;-man, then a Merchant; and he de&s;er|ved not the imputation of &s;uch a wicked wretch, as would betray the States Captains into Pri&s;on, and &s;end away a Po&s;t into <HI>England</HI> to complain of the <HI>Remon&s;trancer;</HI> and then for Captain <HI>Appleton</HI> to &s;ay the decea&s;ed Cap: <HI>Wood</HI> tri|umphed over him, I dare &s;ay is a mo&s;t fal&s;e thing, in that there are many can te&s;tifie he was a man re&s;tle&s;&s;e to &s;erve o|ther Captains in their nece&s;&s;ities (who had &s;hewed them &s;elves his great enemies) in &s;o high a nature, as that the like can hardly be parallel'd, and &s;o much I can further &s;ay for the &s;aid Captain, according to what Mr: <HI>Longland</HI> denotes
<PB N="21" REF="11">(as his opinion) in his Letter to me at my fir&s;t coming into <HI>Porto Lon|gone,</HI> he was a man more readier to &s;erve the State, then &s;uch as eat their bread, before ever he entred into the States &s;ervice to receive their pay, not only in taking care to ha&s;ten Ammunition, and other things to me at my fir&s;t harbouring in <HI>Longone,</HI> but otherwi&s;e. And if Captain <HI>Apple|ton,</HI> and Captain <HI>Seaman,</HI> the letter of which &s;truck him as I have heard, for expre&s;&s;ing his zeal to the States Affairs; I &s;ay, had they hearkned to his coun&s;el, or tho&s;e keen Arguments he us'd to draw them forth to my a&s;&s;i&s;tance in <HI>Porto Longone;</HI> at my fir&s;t coming there, we had been in <HI>Eng|land</HI> long &s;ince; and all along to his death, he was a faithful, &s;tout ho|ne&s;t man, and one that to his la&s;t breath would acknowledg their de|&s;truction was of them&s;elves, they did not follow Order, and went out too &s;oon in the morning, being they went not in the night.</P>
<P>But again to the <HI>Remon&s;trance:</HI> Whereas he &s;aith, that he &s;tir'd about taking the <HI>Phaenix</HI> Frigot by my order, if I forget not, that will prove very fal&s;e, becau&s;e he had hindred it once before, and &s;o I was minded to make no further u&s;e of him in that bu&s;ine&s;&s;e, yet I do not deny, but that (without giving di&s;turbance to the Dukes Port) I ordered that &s;he &s;hould be &s;tollen away from the drunken <HI>Dutch,</HI> and to that purpo&s;e I picked out (at was Capt: <HI>Cox</HI> his de&s;ire) &s;ome chief per&s;ons: and ha|ving encouraged them all that lay in my power, I &s;ent them away a|bout it, and at the time it might have taken place, I went on the moun|tains to &s;ee her &s;teal away, at my return being certainly inform'd how it had taken effect, to the joy of my heart, being confident it was as good a piece of &s;ervice as could be done the Nation at that time: And &s;o the Councel of <HI>State</HI> e&s;teemed it, when they were pleas'd to give Mr. <HI>Longland,</HI> and my &s;elf thanks for it: And truly if &s;uch &s;ervice meet with no kind of e&s;teem, &s;uch an ill Con&s;equence may follow, as that tho&s;e that eat the States bread, will turn as very Drones as their hearts can de&s;ire, who are on the other &s;ide.</P>
<P>And Cap. <HI>Appleton</HI> well knoweth; if not, I am &s;ure I have heard, at fir&s;t the great Duke commended the Exploit, &s;aying the Turks had &s;tole her away from the drunken Flemmings, whil&s;t they minded their bu|&s;ine&s;&s;e no better, and all &s;eemed to be covered, &s;o that in many dayes after, the Duke &s;ent me not a word about it; and it's judg'd (by pru|dent men) he would never have taken notice of it as a di&s;turbance to his Port; had not that fooli&s;h childi&s;h act of Captain <HI>Appletons</HI> in taking the <HI>Dutch</HI> man out of his Centinels hou&s;e, with his own hand (as if he had been Lord Paramount in that Countrey) highly incens'd him, as indeed it would any other Prince, or State in the like Ca&s;e.
<PB N="22" REF="12">And when the great Duke did di&s;patch away a Me&s;&s;enger to me to la|ment that high affront in his fir&s;t Letter, as one in whom the thoughts about the <HI>Phaenix</HI> Frigot were utterly extinct, and drownd, he mentions not a word to me of that bu&s;ine&s;s, until his &s;econd Letter came long af|ter, and then I could do le&s;&s;e then own it, and labour to ju&s;tifie it, as I can do now more fully.</P>
<P>And I could wi&s;h al&s;o, that Authority had been plea&s;ed to have done it more effectually in their An&s;wer, and not leave Mr. <HI>Longland,</HI> and my &s;elf (their Servants) in &s;ome kind of difficulty, or &s;hame upon us about it. For I fear it opened a gap to &s;ome further trouble.</P>
<P>Now to prove that the &s;aid Act was no di&s;turbance or affront to his Port (or at lea&s;t) ought not to have been e&s;teemed &s;o without great par|tiality, it is clearly thus, again&s;t which (I believe) there can be no rati|onal Objection.</P>
<P>Some weeks before the <HI>Phaenix</HI> was &s;urprized, a &s;mal <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> &s;hip bound for <HI>Barbary,</HI> comes out of the <HI>Mould,</HI> and was &s;hot at by the <HI>Dutch</HI> men of War, with divers &s;hot, and they afterwards chas'd her; now if the great Duke accounted that no di&s;turbance, &s;o as to make a publick com|plaint, by impri&s;oning the Captains, denying them provi&s;ions, or by &s;ending an extraordinary Me&s;&s;enger into <HI>Holland.</HI> Then he ought not to account Capt. <HI>Cox</HI> &s;lipping away with the Frigot (after the drunken fit of the <HI>Dutch</HI> was over) in &s;uch a manner as that the ve&s;&s;el (being far without &s;hot of his Cannons, when the attempt was made) did get a|way, and yet not di&s;cerned by his people from the &s;hore, to be any af|front, or di&s;turbance at all to his Port.</P>
<P>But if it be objected here, they did the Duke &s;ervice therein, in regard it was contrary to his Laws that a Ship &s;hould carry <HI>Lead</HI> to <HI>Barbary:</HI> I an&s;wer, they might have acquainted him with it while &s;he was in his <HI>Cubert,</HI> or in the <HI>Mould,</HI> and not let him know of it afterwards by the ratling of their &s;hot. And thus I have an&s;wered the <HI>Remon&s;trancer</HI> in that particular, wherein peradventure he hop'd I would have come under the La&s;h of Ju&s;tice for breach of Orders; but he is not &s;o &s;ecret in lay|ing the plots of his malice, but it may be as openly di&s;covered.</P>
<P>Again, the next thing mentioned at his coming to <HI>Legorn</HI> the la&s;t time is, That the Dukes Secretary, my &s;elf, and the <HI>Dutch</HI> had concluded to Fight; A pretty &s;tory, that made me &s;mile, though malice enough lye under the&s;e &s;inders; but as cunningly as the <HI>Remon&s;trance</HI> is dre&s;t up, the knots about it are not &s;o tied, but a little skill and hone&s;ty is able to un|do them all, and make the filthine&s;s that is underneath, to be &s;ufficient|ly di&s;covered. I know there was a Treaty, if you will have it call'd &s;o,
<PB N="23" REF="12">between the Dukes Secretary, Mr. <HI>Longland,</HI> and my &s;elf, as there was it may be the &s;ame between the <HI>Dutch,</HI> and that Secretary, but to &s;ay be|tween us three was a Treaty, is a horridfal&s;ity, or much le&s;s, that it was concluded among&s;t us to Fight the <HI>Dutch,</HI> and yet the &s;earcher of hearts mu&s;t be appealed unto in this thing, among&s;t other fal&s;ities, as if they were very truth; Great impiety, and God may be a &s;wifter witne&s;s again&s;t fal&s;e Swearers, then they are aware of.</P>
<P>One would wonder to &s;ee how the Great Dukes failings &s;hould all be covered by Cap. <HI>Appleton,</HI> who&s;e name he could not mention, except with a &s;corn, but that we know by an old practice, Two arch enemies wil make friends to bring about their ends upon tho&s;e that are faithful</P>
<P>There's not a man or Boy in the Fleet, but mu&s;t needs take notice, that the Great Duke thru&s;t us out of his Port, and that after all means had been u&s;ed for the gaining of thirty days time, until our <HI>Venice</HI> &s;hips that had co&s;t the State of <HI>England</HI> &s;o va&s;t an Expence, came up to our A&s;&s;i&s;tance, in&s;omuch that Mr. <HI>Longland</HI> and my &s;elf, proffered the Great Dukes Secretary as much money as the <HI>Phaenix</HI> Frigot was worth, to give the <HI>Dutch,</HI> or do what he would withall, and although he knows thereupon, what a Speech I made in the face of each Ships Company, &s;aying, our condition was much like tho&s;e <HI>Leapers</HI> we read of: The Great Duke commanded us to be gone hence in ten dayes time, and if not, here are more Guns brought down (for ought I could perceive) to expiate our De&s;truction; &s;o that if we &s;tay any longer we mu&s;t peri&s;h, and if we go forth, we can do no more; wherefore as Gods providence had put us on &s;uch nece&s;&s;itous &s;ervice, &s;o I hop'd our &s;ins &s;hould not hinder his High appearance with us in it; &amp; the ri&s;e I had from thence, to &s;tir them up to quit them&s;elves like Engli&s;hmen, was not unknown. And though he very well knoweth in the &s;teerage of every &s;hip it was pa&s;ted up, to this effect, That whereas the Great Dake had required us to go thence in &s;o &s;hort a time, each individual man, as wel Captains as others, were therefore required to give their attendance to their re&s;|pective Shipt, and not to go thence on &s;hoar upon any terms, without &s;peciall leave, as they would an&s;wer the contrary at their perils, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></P>
<P>And moreover, though he very well knew the Duke had an opportu|nity to procure our Conjunction (or at lea&s;t) to have caus'd our Enemy to have gone out, and Fought us in the Sea, yet &s;lighted it, &amp; at length &s;et at liberty the <HI>Dutch</HI> Captains, and many of their Marriners, which he had in Pri&s;on, &amp; though our Ships were taken very near the <HI>Mould</HI> head, &s;hoots not a &s;hot in their defence; yet notwith&s;tanding all this, Capt. <HI>Appleton</HI> takes no notice of it, as if he would Petition him for the
<PB N="24" REF="13">money back again, which he &s;aith it co&s;t him formerly to procure his pardon.</P>
<P>But it may be &s;ome wil &s;ay (as I have heard they have already) the Great Duke is a Worthy and Magnificent Prince, and wrote you, that the &s;hips might &s;tay longer in his <HI>Mould,</HI> if there was a nece&s;&s;ity for it.</P>
<P>I an&s;wer: Truth is, untill we had a lo&s;s here in <HI>England</HI> of the <HI>Gar|land,</HI> and other &s;hips, I had very good re&s;pect from him, (and I endea|voured with as much reverence, re&s;pectivene&s;s, and thankfulne&s;s to ac|knowledge the &s;ame) and he told me he was not my Friend &s;o much becau&s;e I was in an eminent Employment for the State, but upon an old &s;core, I might Command him, yet the News of a fore-mentioned lo&s;s turned the &s;treame pre&s;ently; for like Politicians they took the &s;tronge&s;t &s;ide, and then I could no more be heard in what was but Ju|&s;tice and rea&s;on, then if tho&s;e words had never come out of his mouth. <HI>I</HI> very wel know what was wrote in an&s;wer to mine, about the latter end of <HI>Feb:</HI> la&s;t, <HI>I</HI> de&s;ired when winds and weather hindred my coming to <HI>Legorn</HI> (within the time limited) it might be lookt upon as a ju&s;t impediment. The An&s;wer runs thus, <HI>You &s;hall have eight days added to the former, and longer if nece&s;&s;ity required.</HI> What nece&s;&s;ity is that, but the being cro&s;t by winds and weather: for all men know, vvho u&s;e tho&s;e parts, that the Northerly wind bloweth &s;ometimes &s;o fre&s;h, that a man may be put to Lee|ward, &s;o that in eight days he cannot get up to <HI>Legorn</HI>-Road. If he had meant other|wi&s;e, that knew how importunate I was, But for thirty days time, would have &s;aid, take the time you de&s;ire, then &s;hould I have known what to have done. If yet any will make a more favourable con&s;truction of his words, I &s;hall only &s;ay thus much, I wi&s;h he may find what I have oft times thought on, to be a true &s;aying, <HI>One ounce of reall hone&s;ty and integrity, will turn better to account in all ca&s;es, then a whole pound of Court policy, where mentall re&s;ervations are u&s;ed, by which they will have liberty to make two &s;everall Con&s;tructions.</HI></P>
<P>And for this crying up of magnificency, I know not what to make of it, except there be &s;uch abroad as differ in judgement from &s;ome Athei&s;tical &s;pirits, I have met withal in the parts, where I have been, both of <HI>Aegypt</HI> and <HI>Greece,</HI> who have held, that in &s;o many hundred thou&s;and yeers (I forgot the ju&s;t number, there &s;hal be a Revo|lution of all things, as if I &s;hould be a writing, and you &s;hould be a reading, ju&s;t as we are now, I &s;ay peradventure &s;ome men may be of the mind, the Revolution may come about &s;ooner.</P>
<P>In fine, Let others judge of that Tran&s;action what they will, I am of opinion, that the blood of the men of our Nation which fell that day, will lye (in a &s;peciall man|ner) at the Great Dukes door.</P>
<P>But to the <HI>Remon&s;trance</HI> in an&s;wer to my charge of Treachery or Cowardi&s;e, or they know not what them&s;elves, I &s;uppo&s;e the proofs that are herein included will acquit me of the former, and if tho&s;e, (who very well know <HI>I</HI> have complained of them as great failers in &s;ervice) do not acquit me of the latter, let me lye under that indignity. <HI>I</HI> ever counted it one of the unhand&s;ome&s;t things in the world, to be &s;peaking out any thing tending to &s;elf applau&s;e; yet <HI>I</HI> am in a manner con&s;trained to write like &s;uch a one at this time, although my aim is that God alone may have ho|nour by it.</P>
<P>The 29 of <HI>Augu&s;t</HI> 1652 it fell out that more then the &s;even eight parts of our &s;hips Company mutinied
<PB N="25" REF="13">again&s;t me (notwith&s;tanding about midnight be|fore every individuall man in the Ship, who was not wound|ed, gave me his hand to live and dye with me if occa&s;ion were, again&s;t the enemy next day) but then got on their be&s;t cloaths, or one way or another declared them&s;elves, by making the Ship uncapable of &s;teerage, or otherwi&s;e, that they would leave the Ship <HI>Paragon,</HI> and the rich Merchants Ships to be de|&s;troyed; nay, &s;o high was the mutiny, that &s;ome gave out they would de&s;troy my per&s;on, if I would not give them leave to call for quarter, in ca&s;e the enemy had come up a|gaine. And when I had made a &s;peech among them, to en|courage them what in me lay (although now &s;o &s;pent, that it was a very great paine to me to &s;peake &s;o as to be heard twice or thrice my length) notwith&s;tanding &s;ome Comman|ders came after me, where I was heaving over bord the lum|ber our men had got up to cloy our Guns, and told me, I &s;trove again&s;t the &s;treame, and tho&s;e very men that held up their hands before to &s;tand by me, had declared they would call for Quarter among the re&s;t, when ever the Enemy came neere; and upon that &s;core begg'd of me to loo&s;e no more time, but for&s;ake the Ship, and give them leave to fire their Merchants &s;hips with rich Goods, and flye al&s;o: But my an|&s;wer to them was to this effect: As it is &s;aid, was given to Queen <HI>Eleanor</HI> in another ca&s;e, <HI>I will not give you &s;uch leave as you de&s;ire, but if you will begin upon your owne account, doe it;</HI> I can fire our Ship when the Enemy comes within Musket &s;hot. And adding, <HI>Be but patient, and waite upon God a little, and I am per&s;waded God will &s;ave this part of</HI> Englands <HI>&s;trength and wealth, whether men will or no;</HI> and &s;o it &s;ell out through Gods mer|cy in cau&s;ing it to fall flat calme; of which miraculous pre|&s;ervation (if &s;ome Merchants were rightly &s;en&s;ible) they would not murmur, and quarrel, and be ready to &s;peake all manner of evil, whether right or wrong, again&s;t the States faithfull Servants. It's feared, becau&s;e really and truly they are &s;uch, although the pretence be otherwi&s;e, and yet as far peradventure as the former from Chri&s;tianity; Oh the event and &s;ucce&s;&s;e hath not an&s;wered the great de&s;ires of gaine that was on their hearts, being the Goods were left by the way, &amp; not brought through.</P>
<PB N="26" REF="14">
<P>But for the Service before mentioned, the Councel of State by Order of Parliament, &s;ent me a Letter of Thanks, wherein they did no more declare how well they re&s;ented my weak endeavours, and how it &s;hould be advantagious to me at my returne (which includes kind Acceptance, the mo&s;t I a|&s;pired after) then I with all reverence and thankfulne&s;&s;e did acknowledge.</P>
<P>But peradventure &s;ome will &s;ay, What need all this di&s;|cour&s;e concerning what pa&s;t in your fir&s;t Engagement? You are not blamed for Cowardi&s;e then; it's thought, according to what was reported and openly &s;aid on the <HI>Exchange,</HI> when as this Remon&s;trancers Letters came for <HI>England,</HI> with &s;ome other Letters from (Malignant) Merchants, &s;uch as would be gladder that the Dutch, then that the Engli&s;h &s;hould pre|vaile, and no other, <HI>Badiley was turn'd Coward, Badiley was turn'd Coward.</HI></P>
<P>When all things that have been &s;aid in the foregoing ex|pre&s;&s;ions, and &s;hall yet be declared, be weighed in the ballance of Truth, and be found downe weight, not having a tittle of fallaciou&s;ne&s;&s;e in them; and when the Te&s;timony is likewi&s;e con&s;idered, I believe there is hardly ever an hone&s;t man in <HI>England,</HI> but will confe&s;&s;e with altogether as much hone&s;ty, they might have cryed out, and &s;aid, <HI>Badiley was turn'd Turke, Badiley was turn'd Turke.</HI></P>
<P>But naught &s;aith (I &s;hould &s;ay naughty people) he had <HI>Currants,</HI> and I know not what in his Fleet, and for private advantage &s;ake turn'd his back upon the Enemy: The con|trary to that hath been declared to the Committee of the Admiralty, and it can be fully proved that for ought I could know, my lo&s;&s;e in the <HI>Perrigreene</HI> (for want of timely &s;uc|cour) was more then I had in our part of the Fleet, that came away, although the &s;hirt on my back had been priz'd at the highe&s;t value, but if there were &s;ome &s;mall difference, that were a likely matter indeed, &s;ithence that it now appeareth be|fore the Commi&s;&s;ioners of the Navy. In zeale to the States Service, and it cannot be imagined to any other end, at <HI>Porto Ferraro,</HI> I run out of my owne particular &s;tock, to the value of 1000 l. in <HI>Circa,</HI> which I believe the State will make me good hereafter.</P>
<PB N="27" REF="14">
<P>I &s;hall now come to ravell out the later end of the <HI>Re|mon&s;trance</HI> into &s;ome parts, and &s;o an&s;wer them.</P>
<P>Captaine <HI>Appleton</HI> &s;aith in one place (that after I was gone for <HI>Porte Ferraro</HI>) I &s;ent him order to ha&s;ten to mee as &s;oone as the <HI>Dutch</HI> weighed Anchor, and upon his life to do it with all diligence; and a little below he &s;aith, without Mr. <HI>Longland</HI> he dur&s;t not act, my order being to the con|trary.</P>
<P>As <HI>Elihu</HI> well &s;aid; <HI>Ju&s;t as the mouth doth ta&s;t meate, &s;o the eares of wi&s;e men tryeth words:</HI> To whom I appeale, whether there be not Non-&s;en&s;e, or Contradiction enough in that part.</P>
<P>For he that looketh in the Letter, wherein I advis'd him to ha&s;ten after, as for life when as the <HI>Dutch</HI> were com|ing out, that we might not be too much over-pre&s;t before they came for our a&s;&s;i&s;tance, &s;hall not finde that I there or|der'd him (however) he &s;hould not act any thing without Mr. <HI>Longlands</HI> pre&s;ence and a&s;&s;i&s;tance.</P>
<P>Wherefore &s;uch an Order mu&s;t be either before, or after that Letter was &s;ent him; if he &s;aith it were before, then this Letter makes it of none effect; but if he &s;aith it were af|ter, it made the former order null, and void.</P>
<P>Whether it were before or after, certainely no knowing man will imagine, that by my <HI>Letters,</HI> or Orders, I &s;hut out my owne Authority, &s;o as to &s;ay, although I come there my &s;elfe in per&s;on, yet you are to act nothing with|out Ma&s;ter <HI>Longland:</HI> and if this be beleev'd, I would not part with the Command I had over that Squa|dron.</P>
<P>Then thus it will follow: Why did not hee and the re&s;t come out when I &s;ent for them (as it were in per&s;on) by my Lieutenant? And if my former order of ha&s;tning as for life were in his eye, why then did he not ha&s;ten as for life? For if &s;o, in all likelihood we had got together, and obtai|ned the Victory over our Enemies.</P>
<P>If yet he &s;aith, Mr. <HI>Longlands</HI> opinion was to be taken be|fore he &s;tir'd next morning, why did he not conform to his Coun&s;ell (for what ever they &s;ay in their <HI>Remon&s;trance</HI>) it
<PB N="28" REF="15">will be prov'd by what Mr. <HI>Longland</HI> hath wrote to the Councell of State, Committee of the Admiralty, and my &s;elfe about that Bu&s;ine&s;s, is a reall truth.</P>
<P>When he &s;aw they would go out &s;o &s;oon, contrary to his Advice, he &s;hut him&s;elfe in his Chamber, giving up all for lo&s;t; and as it's prov'd, when Cap. <HI>Wood</HI> came a&s;hore woun|ded, oh &s;aith he (as he confe&s;s'd to his la&s;t breath) Ma&s;ter <HI>Longland, Our De&s;truction is of our &s;elves, our De&s;truction is of our &s;elves, we cannot blame Captaine</HI> Badiley, <HI>nor any body el&s;e, &s;ince we went not out in the night when as we were &s;ent for, I &s;aw wee went too &s;oone in the morning; if we had &s;taid while the Ad|mirall had been engag'd, all might have been well enough,</HI> or words to that purpo&s;e.</P>
<P>Truth is, I did write him &s;uch a Letter as he mentions, wherein he was ordered to ha&s;ten after me as for life, in ca&s;e the Enemie came to looke after me in the Sea, and I did it for the&s;e rea&s;ons.</P>
<P>Fir&s;t, becau&s;e all men had complained of his dulne&s;&s;e and backwardne&s;&s;e in coming to our a&s;&s;i&s;tance the time that wee were formerly engag'd.</P>
<P>And &s;econdly, in regard that I had &s;ent &s;ome Propo&s;iti|ons to the great Duke, humbly begging him to endeavour the <HI>Dutch</HI> might comply, and not fight our Ships under his Cannons, but come out to Sea, and do it there.</P>
<P>Now who could imagine, that hee that had made &s;uch a deale of pudder, complaining of <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Commanders in a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> high manner about violating his Port, would not have con&s;trained the <HI>Dutch,</HI> if they would have fought us, to come out and fight at Sea, and upon that &s;core did I verily believe they would have been with me, either at <HI>Porte Fer|raro,</HI> or as &s;oone as ever I came thence; much le&s;&s;e could we imagine, that ever the Duke would turn all the Dutch Captains, and others of that Nation that had affronted him out of Pri&s;on, and unworthily &s;uffered &s;ome of our Ships to be taken within Musket-&s;hot of his Works, and not &s;hoo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"> a &s;hot in our defence.</P>
<P>And it is as true as the former, that after that Letter be|fore mentioned (upon other news I did advi&s;e) that in my
<PB N="29" REF="15">ab&s;ence I would have them con&s;ult with Mr. <HI>Longland</HI> about the time of their coming out: but they that run may read, and clearly &s;ee, that Cap. <HI>Appleton</HI> hath neither conform'd to my Order and Advice, in coming out in the night, ha|ving &s;uch a fit opportunity, which made the Ma&s;ters Mate, or Pylot &s;ay, they were cur&s;ed people to be &s;o be|witched to that Mould, as not to goe when their Admirall &s;ent for them; neither hath he conform'd to Mr. <HI>Longlands</HI> advice, which was; that &s;ince they did not goe in the night, they &s;hould not goe out &s;o &s;oon as they did, but &s;tay whil&s;t I was engaged with the Enemie before they went out.</P>
<P>But Cap. <HI>Appleton</HI> doth not confe&s;&s;e in &s;o many words, that my Lieutenant came to call him away in the night; however, be&s;ides the te&s;timony given in, &s;uch jugling is di&s;|covered by his owne expre&s;&s;ions; he &s;aith he had thoughts of coming out, but that the wind faltered; now, how came he by &s;uch thoughts? either they were from mee, or from Mr. <HI>Longland,</HI> but they were not from Mr. <HI>Longland,</HI> he con|fe&s;&s;eth that the want of his Order was an impediment.</P>
<P>But what &s;aith he? Cap. <HI>Badiley</HI> &s;ent to &s;ee in what readi|ne&s;&s;e we were in, and to tell me the <HI>Con&s;tant Warwick</HI> would be &s;ent neer the Mould head in the morning to a&s;&s;i&s;t us, with the Fire-&s;hip.</P>
<P>Cap. <HI>Appleton</HI> well knoweth I &s;aw the Ships all clear, and ready to engage at a quarter of an hours warning before I left the place of <HI>Legorn,</HI> which was about eight or ten dayes before: and be&s;ides, by Cap. <HI>Appletons</HI> owne Letters, and by Cap. <HI>Coxe</HI> that was in with them the night before, I heard they were in a readine&s;&s;e: &s;o that now to &s;end my Lieute|nant at midnight through the Enemies Boats, or Scouts that lay in wait for ours, it had been as vain a thing in me as in him, to make &s;uch a lame excu&s;e.</P>
<P>But he addes, the Me&s;&s;enger told him that the <HI>Con&s;tant Warwicke,</HI> and the Fire-&s;hip &s;hould be at the Mould head in the morning to receive him forth: were it not now an ea&s;ie thing to condemn him out of his own mouth, and &s;ay, why went you out of the Mould &s;o &s;oone in the morning (being you went not in the night) &s;ince you had word &s;ent, the
<PB N="30" REF="16"><HI>Con&s;tant Warwicke</HI> and the Fire-&s;hip &s;hould be at the Mould|head to receive you, and in effect intimating, that untill then you were not to come forth: For as &s;oone as they be|gan to loo&s;e Saile in the Mould, I was heard &s;ay, <HI>&s;urely they will not be &s;o mad as to come forth before the Con&s;tant Warwicke and others be neere the Mould-head to receive them.</HI></P>
<P>But to proceed; he &s;aith when he fir&s;t engag'd, Cap. <HI>Ba|diley</HI> and his Fleet might have come to us quarter winds, if they would: To that I &s;hall only &s;ay thus much, let me lie under the cen&s;ure and di&s;-reputation about it, if I cannot prove by &s;ome hundred Witne&s;&s;es, <HI>that as the winde gave leave, &s;o we plyed in.</HI></P>
<P>And I make no que&s;tion, but as many Witne&s;&s;es can make it clearly appear, no time was lo&s;t after their coming out of the Mould, but all diligence was u&s;ed to ha&s;ten in to their &s;uccour, and many of the <HI>Parragons</HI> men can averre, they never &s;ee me more earne&s;t then I was at that time, in looking after the Sailes and Steerage, and in labouring a|bout hoy&s;ing the Top-gallant Sailes &s;o long, untill it was fear'd all would have come downe about our eares; and al|ways gave the Ship Brace and Sheat as the wind would give leave, and &s;lackned no other Saile untill we came within &s;hot, and then haled up our Main-&s;aile (as was all the rea|&s;on in the world) being the Cap&s;tain that heaves our tacks aboard in tho&s;e Ships would have hindered the u&s;e of foure Guns, be&s;ides other inconveniences that might have hap|ned.</P>
<P>Next he &s;aith, at la&s;t we came within halfe &s;hot, as if we had lo&s;t time before (an ea&s;ie under&s;tanding can trace the malice that runs through his expre&s;&s;ions) I have given the Councell of State already an Account what I did when I came neere, as that I went directly with the Admirall of the <HI>Dutch,</HI> preparing to grapple with her; but ca&s;ting my eye about, and feeing none of our Frigots had executed my Orders about relieving the <HI>Leopard,</HI> con&s;idering &s;hee was worth three of the Dutch Admirall, I powred about thirty pieces of Ordnance, and a volley of &s;mall &s;hot into her, and &s;tood away for the <HI>Leopard,</HI> with a reall intent to have
<PB N="31" REF="16">gone on Bord tho&s;e were on bord her, but it was judg'd no wi&s;dome to run &s;temlings on bord with all Saile, being a fre&s;h gale of winde when we fir&s;t came neere her: And pa&s;|&s;ing by the <HI>Julius Ce&s;ar</HI> &s;tern within two or three &s;hips lengths from her at mo&s;t; and within halfe Musket-&s;hot of the <HI>Leopards</HI> &s;tern, it may be that is halfe &s;hots length, Cap. <HI>Appleton</HI> &s;peaks of, having di&s;charged fir&s;t a broad &s;ide, and a volley of &s;mall &s;hot, on that &s;hip, and the <HI>Sunne,</HI> in hopes to have cut one Ma&s;t or another by the bord, we made way to flat our Ship round, fully intending to have gone on bord with our fore-&s;aile hal'd up either between the <HI>Sunne,</HI> and the <HI>Julius Ce&s;ar,</HI> (and &s;o &s;hould have been able to have fenc'd on both &s;ides) or el&s;e to have lain along&s;t the <HI>Sunnes</HI> &s;ide, with my Bow-&s;prit over the <HI>Leopards</HI> Poop: but it plea&s;ed God the wind &s;o dullard all on a &s;uddain, that our Ship with as much endeavour as ever was us'd, would not weare nor beare up, &s;o that wee were forc'd to bring our Ship to, and &s;tand further, before we could make her &s;tay; and when we had got her about, we &s;tood away for the <HI>Ju|lius Cae&s;ars</HI> &s;ide again, re&s;olving to get on bord that time; and having pa&s;s'd another broad &s;ide on her about Musket|&s;hot off, the Helm was put a weather to beare up againe, but the Ship we could not make work with that little wind, if a thou&s;and Common-wealths had lain upon it: And the &s;ight of it tran&s;porting me into a pa&s;&s;ion, I call'd to my Lieute|nant to pa&s;&s;e the word among the nimble Ships, that I would have them goe on board the <HI>Leopard,</HI> or tho&s;e Ships on bord her to &s;ee to di&s;-intangle her from tho&s;e Ships: Whereupon having none within call but the <HI>Mary Ro&s;e,</HI> he call'd to her to go on bord; but they being no better man'd excus'd it; thereupon I &s;tept up to look for the <HI>Lewis,</HI> with words in mouth to this effect; <HI>Where is this vapouring fla&s;h</HI> Ell <HI>now, with his forty men, and his</HI> 20. <HI>Guns, or his thirty Guns and his four&s;core men? where is hee? &s;ee if you can make him hear, that we may employ him in this &s;ervice?</HI> but he was gone out of call after his owne inventions. In all this time there ap|appears not a man upon the <HI>Leopards</HI> upper Deck that I could di&s;cern: and being extreamly troubled to &s;ee the <HI>Leo|pard</HI>
<PB N="32" REF="17">manag'd no better, I call'd to man the Pinace, and the Lord my great witne&s;&s;e knoweth, with a full re&s;olution to have gone on board her with my boat, when I could not with the &s;hip, verily believing the Captain had been kil'd, and chiefe Officers, and had kept my re&s;olution.</P>
<P>But although Capt. <HI>Appleton</HI> now &s;aith the two Ships on bord him call'd for quarter, or he knoweth not for what; tho&s;e Ships untill I was gone fir'd five times as many Guns as the <HI>Leopard</HI> did in my &s;ight; for I never &s;aw her &s;hoot but once in halfe an hours time: I &s;ay the with-drawing of the <HI>Leopards</HI> men within doors and hatches, and their not ap|pearing to let goe an Anchor in any time, nor doing any thing el&s;e towards their owne pre&s;ervation, caus'd me to think &s;ome part of the <HI>Leopard</HI> might be in the Enemies po&s;|&s;e&s;&s;ion, and &s;o was diverted from going in my Boat.</P>
<P>But Captain <HI>Appleton</HI> &s;aith, his men call'd to the <HI>Con&s;tant Warwicke,</HI> to tell them the Enemies cal'd for Quarter, and therefore they &s;hould forbeare firing on tho&s;e that lay on bord her. As for the Frigots Commander, let him an&s;wer for it, that hee did not acquaint me with what he was in|form'd of from the <HI>Leopard.</HI></P>
<P>But if I had been in Cap. <HI>Appletons</HI> place, and expre&s;t &s;o much as now he doth, truly I &s;hould have fear'd I &s;hould have been accounted one of the greate&s;t Cowards, or fools in the world; for if the men did call for quarter, which I believe is as true, or as fal&s;e as many other things mentio|ned in the Libell, or <HI>Remon&s;trance,</HI> then why did he not call his men upon the Deck to enter them, (at lea&s;t) why did not he him&s;elfe appeare on the Poope, when his Admirall came by, and have told him &s;o much: Or if his with-draw|ing were through feare, why was not &s;ome body el&s;e &s;ent on the Poope to have done it, and have &s;hook his hat, cry|ing <HI>All is ours, all is ours.</HI> I but &s;aith he, to colour the mat|ter, (as if we were all a&s;leep in the Fleet be&s;ides) by a &s;tory he tells in his <HI>Remon&s;trance</HI> (in point of truth, like that of 600 Crowns agreed on at a Councell of Warre to be given for his re-e&s;tabli&s;hment) how that 5 of the Enemies &s;hips &s;o gal'd him, that he was not able to po&s;&s;e&s;&s;e them that cal'd
<PB N="33" REF="17">for quarter. If it be not a dreame, I am &s;ure they were in|vi&s;ible, above two hundred per&s;ons be&s;ide my &s;elfe will de|po&s;e the contrary; none was neere within Saker &s;hot, if a|ny were within &s;hot of their be&s;t Ordnance, but only the Admirall of the <HI>Dutch,</HI> that made what meanes he could with his <HI>Sprit-&s;aile,</HI> and <HI>Sprit-&s;aile top &s;aile</HI> to get away; and being twice Musket-&s;hot from him, di&s;charg'd no Ord|nance upon him that I and others could di&s;cern: and I be|lieve it will be very hard to prove by the te&s;timony of any hone&s;t man, that ever they were &s;truck with a &s;hot from any Ship of the Enemie while we were neere, but only from them two on bord the <HI>Leopard:</HI> Now then except his &s;hip had been &s;hot-free between Decks, &s;ince no man can aver any E|nemie was neer but tho&s;e on bord, or had been within Mus|ket-&s;hot of him, his men would have been as &s;ecure on the upper deck, as on the lower, &amp; they might have bin as &s;afe all the time they were entring the <HI>Dutch</HI> &s;hips, he &s;aith cal'd for Quarter, as to have &s;taid in their own; and therefore I know not what to make of that pa&s;&s;age, it &s;hows &s;o like a frenzy Fiction.</P>
<P>Next, Cap. <HI>Appleton</HI> magnifies the valour of Cap. <HI>Ell,</HI> and Cap. <HI>Fi&s;her,</HI> telling how they did a&s;&s;i&s;t, as if no body el&s;e did; and again he declares, Cap. <HI>Ell</HI> did great execution on the Enemy. This is ju&s;t the old proverb, <HI>Claw me, and I'le claw thee:</HI> But you have &s;ufficient Witne&s;&s;es given in alrea|dy, and I dare &s;ay there may be found above a hundred more to atte&s;t tho&s;e that did lea&s;t &s;ervice in reference to the <HI>Leo|pards</HI> reliefe, did as much &s;ervice, or rather more then was done by the <HI>Lewis</HI> or <HI>Mary.</HI></P>
<P>Next Cap. <HI>Appleton</HI> &s;aith I cal'd off the <HI>Lewis</HI> and the <HI>Ma|ry</HI> that would have a&s;&s;i&s;ted him, and &s;et my Main-&s;aile to goe away, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></P>
<P>For an&s;wer; When I &s;aw all hopes pa&s;t, in humane Rea|&s;on, not becau&s;e the Enemie was now grown three to one, there being foure of our be&s;t Ships lo&s;t before I could come up, and one &s;ince, nor becau&s;e many more expected from Ea&s;t and We&s;t every houre to their a&s;&s;i&s;tance, but none to ours; Although I believe it's ju&s;tifiable for a Commander in
<PB N="34" REF="18">Chie&s;e to with-draw in &s;uch a ca&s;e, or el&s;e old <HI>Van Trumpe</HI> had been in a poore condition, when as twice together, al|though the numbers were upon the matter equall, he let us take away &s;o many &s;hips, and &s;taid not by it, but with-drew with the re&s;t.</P>
<P>Neither was the <HI>Leopard</HI> left in that Ca&s;e (whether &s;unck or afloat we could not tell) in regard mo&s;t of the Com|manders of our nimble Ships had acted quite contrary to order in this (as they did in my la&s;t) engagement, which yet is a &s;ad, and heart-di&s;couraging mi&s;chief.</P>
<P>And although I had of my &s;elfe no inclination to leave the place, as I did, yet when halfe a &s;core of the Chief Offi|cers in the <HI>Paragon</HI> came, and gave me it, as an opinion they would ju&s;tifie upon their lives, &s;aying to this effect: Sir, if now you goe on bord the <HI>Leopard,</HI> and tho&s;e with her, to relieve the former, we cannot &s;ee how it's po&s;&s;ible you can di&s;-intangle your &s;elfe againe before both &s;hips be a&s;hore; be&s;ides &s;aith many, it's very que&s;tionable whether &s;he be not &s;unck already, and ly on the ground. Hence it was, I &s;et my Main-&s;aile, and came away; and if he looks on that, to be the &s;ign of calling off the Fleet, Capt. <HI>Appleton</HI> is in the right; but if his meaning be according to the litterall &s;en&s;e of his Expre&s;&s;ions, how that I cal'd to Cap. <HI>Ell</HI> and Captain <HI>Fi&s;her</HI> to come away, when as they were going to relieve the <HI>Leopard,</HI> by &s;ufficient Te&s;timonie, it will be prov'd a mo&s;t fal&s;e thing.</P>
<P>I know not upon what other &s;core the <HI>Machiavelian</HI> poli|cie (except it be to tickle the minds of &s;ome of their Own|ers) they &s;hould appeare again&s;t mee, who before &s;undry upon the <HI>Parragons</HI> decks, and in her Round-hou&s;e, as hath all other Captains &s;aid in our pa&s;&s;age home-ward; in ca&s;e the Admirall had gone on bord the <HI>Leopard,</HI> or tho&s;e Ships lay entangled with her, in all likelihood the whole Fleet except the Frigots (who could have fled) had been lo&s;t: And now we come to the &s;tre&s;&s;e of all, what Capt. <HI>Appleton</HI> &s;aith of Cap. <HI>Ell</HI> and Cap. <HI>Fi&s;her,</HI> and they &s;ay of them&s;elves the <HI>Leopard</HI> had been relieved, but that I hindred them.</P>
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<P>I know not what to make of &s;uch impudency and in|&s;olency, I profe&s;&s;e were I in their ca&s;e, my owne Con|&s;cience would tell me, that although other contempts were pardoned, which the Law Martial &s;aith is Death, I de&s;erved the &s;evere&s;t &s;entence for coming &s;hort of my Du|ty, and not complying with the Admirals Order, in point of the <HI>Leopards</HI> reliefe: But a word more.</P>
<P>Fir&s;t, for Capt. <HI>Ell,</HI> before we came neere the <HI>Leopard,</HI> &s;ee|ing our Rear-Admirall aground, whereas all the Frigots had &s;peciall order to relieve any who were oppre&s;t by the Ene|my, and &s;eeing they did not act accordingly, as I was ha&s;ten|ing in to the <HI>Leopards</HI> reliefe, being he was neere me, either I call'd to him, or did expect although he were of the Rear-Admirals Squadron, he &s;hould follow me, and keep near me in my Weather-quarter, where then he was, his Leader being aground: for knowing that the <HI>Lewis</HI> was almo&s;t double man'd, in proportion to other Merchants Ships, I thought to have her by me to employ upon &s;ome eminent &s;ervice, when as there &s;hould be occa&s;ion, but whil'&s;t we were endeavouring to bear up, and goe on board the <HI>Leopard,</HI> he goeth after his owne inventions, &s;o that when our Ship would not work (it being little wind, and our Ship heavy and foule) I bid call to the <HI>Lewis</HI> to bear up, and go on bord the <HI>Julius Cae&s;ar;</HI> and &s;eeing &s;he was gone out of call, and that the <HI>Mary Ro&s;e</HI> had made her excu&s;e for want of men, I confe&s;&s;e I was almo&s;t di&s;tracted with pa&s;&s;ion, &s;aying (among&s;t other things in my mind) to this effect, <HI>When &s;uch vapouring Blades are in a Gen|tlewomans Chamber, oh then they are mighty men of valour; but now here is &s;ervice to be done, they can turne &s;hifters above all that ever any Commander in chiefe was troubled withall, before me.</HI> Yet as he lay in my way as we were withdrawing, when we &s;aw it was too late to doe any more then what was done, <HI>I</HI> might bid him follow me.</P>
<P>As for Capt. <HI>Fi&s;her</HI> thus, knowing there was &s;uch pittifull Captaines to be employed with me in this &s;ervice, that perad|venture would forget in the morning, what they did over night; I &s;ent a Copy of what was agreed on at our Councel
<PB N="36" REF="19">of War, to Capt. <HI>Fi&s;her,</HI> wherein among other Orders it was agreed as followes.</P>
<P>If any of the Admirals, Vice-Admirals, or Rear-Admirals Squadron, were laid on bord by the enemy, then &s;uch as were next to them of that Squadron, ought to have laid any &s;uch Ship of the Enemies on bord againe on the other &s;ide. But now pray mark, not to tell you how peremptorily he hath refu&s;ed my Warrant or Command, before or afterwards ex|pre&s;t in &s;ome kind el&s;ewhere, &s;ee how he layes him&s;elfe open under the la&s;h of the highe&s;t cen&s;ure, or &s;evere&s;t &s;entence, take but his owne words, <HI>He broke through the Dutch Fleet, and then did very good &s;ervice a &s;econd time,</HI> meaning he made a bord or two near the <HI>Leopard,</HI> I &s;ay in that he did not goe on bord the <HI>Leopard</HI> according to the Order of the Councel of VVar, he being of that Squadron, the Vice-Admirals Squadron, what hath this man to &s;ay, but that truly he is not &s;uch a novice in <HI>Matchiavels</HI> Arts, nor yet &s;uch a &s;otti&s;h per&s;on as &s;ome of his men complained to me of, when as they mutined in the <HI>Downes;</HI> nor yet &s;uch a reputed Coward, which made me de|&s;ire any one might Command that Ship rather then he, and &s;ure enough he had never been in that place, but that Mr. <HI>Longland</HI> advis'd me the owners earne&s;tly de&s;ired it, and for quietne&s;&s;e &s;ake it were be&s;t I yielded. But I &s;ay, he knows well enough (it's &s;aid being well backt) how to abu&s;e his Com|mander, in hope that (right or wrong) &s;omething may &s;tick to his di&s;paragement.</P>
<P>But in the clo&s;e, Capt. <HI>Appleton</HI> declares how the Marriners wre&s;ted his &s;word out of his hand, and put his arm and &s;houl|der out of joynt; whether that were true as that the Ships on bord him cal'd for Quarter, &s;ome of his chief Officers are not able to tel, for though they &s;aw C. <HI>Appleton</HI> the day they were &s;urprized, yet heard nothing of any &s;uch thing, but however it &s;eems he was able to hold it before, then one would think I &s;hould have &s;een it, or him&s;elfe at lea&s;t (in his place) on the Poop, all the time I was neer him, &s;o long together. After that comes in a &s;tory of the Gunners order to blow up the Poop, I am &s;ure his time had been better employed if he had ordered the Gunner to have turned the muzzles of two or
<PB N="37" REF="19">three Guns downe into the Hatchway, and have &s;unk the Ship, which he omitting to doe in time, did very much trou|ble my &s;pirit, and I think may be rank'd among the highe&s;t of his failings: But I think there is too much of that before.</P>
<P>In the la&s;t place he tels a long &s;tory of what the Great Duke &s;aid, among others I think it will little advantage him; for is that Expre&s;&s;ion becau&s;e Authority &s;hould be incen&s;ed a|gain&s;t me: Then thus, The Great Duke &s;aid Capt. <HI>Appletons</HI> Crime was unpardonable in that he came not out to my A&s;|&s;i&s;tance in nor after my fir&s;t Engagement; would he there|fore have Authority incens'd again&s;t me meerly upon &s;uch a &s;core?</P>
<P>But then, &s;ome of Mr. <HI>Longlands</HI> hou&s;e, &s;ome about the Duke, <HI>Italians, French, &amp;c.</HI> are brought in to &s;peak he knows not what, nor it may be they them&s;elves; but two witne&s;|&s;es are brought in at la&s;t, that were then &s;o &s;ober as to re|member &s;ome <HI>French</HI> and <HI>Italians</HI> had &s;aid they would teare me in pieces for a Coward if ever I came thither. I &s;uppo&s;e if this &s;tuffe be weighed (in the Ballance of under&s;tanding mens Judgements) it will be found very ridiculous.</P>
<P>Becau&s;e &s;ome Engli&s;h Merchant hath &s;aid &s;undry times upon the place of <HI>Legorn, What Newes from our Rogues at We&s;t|mini&s;ter?</HI> meaning the Parliament (although it's a &s;hame Engli&s;h men &s;hould &s;o &s;peak (was the Parliament ever the wor&s;e for that? And although <HI>Italians</HI> and <HI>French</HI> have been heard many a time &s;ay, They could teare &s;ome worthy mem|ber of our State to pieces upon the account of being enemies to the <HI>Romani&s;ts,</HI> would it not be a ridiculous thing for him that heard &s;uch expre&s;&s;ions, to acquaint the Higher Powers of it, in hopes to bring them into di&s;-reputation upon &s;uch a &s;core?</P>
<P>What though the Spectators at <HI>Legorn,</HI> were a thou&s;and <HI>Legorn</HI> Ladies, and as many Fooles and Knaves among them, is that any thing to me? Were they not like a Company that being in a Ladies Chamber near the Sea-coa&s;t, &s;eeing a Ship with &s;ome little wind and &s;ea, to their under&s;tanding, dri|ving into a Bay, and not being able to get off the &s;hore, by weathering one point or other, cut the ma&s;t by the bord, and
<PB N="38" REF="20">all that time they cryed out, <HI>Oh Fooles, oh Knaves,</HI> what, cut your Ma&s;ts by the bord this weather? loo&s;e &s;o much of your friends intere&s;t that might be &s;av'd? not con&s;idering the ac|cidents that are &s;ubject to happen on bord Ship, when tho&s;e that were there &s;aw they could not get off with a &s;aile; and peradventure he that had Command perceived there was no|thing in his Ship but an old Junck, unto which there is no tru&s;t at all to be given, without his Ma&s;ts be parted withall.</P>
<P>Indeed if the Spectators had fle&s;h'd &s;ome of the Great Dukes old Gallies, and had with them &s;uch in&s;truments, and in&s;tru|ment-u&s;ers, as walk to and againe among the Banks in the&s;e Ve&s;&s;els, and would have come to tow our Ship too and again, when &s;he would not &s;teere, and if then we would have done no more then we did, indeed they might ju&s;tly have &s;aid &s;om|thing in our di&s;paragement.</P>
<P>But what need I &s;peak &s;o much of them, I wi&s;h there may be none in the world who pretend to better principles, that would not (at lea&s;t in word and thought) condemne and execute before they heare, contrary to the manner of the <HI>Ro|mane Heathens.</HI></P>
<P>I have now fini&s;ht my <HI>An&s;wer</HI> to the <HI>Remon&s;trancers,</HI> where|in I have not onely opened the dre&s;&s;e it was made up in, but &s;hewed the filthy malice from whence &s;uch productions as are there held out, did i&s;&s;ue forth; and I doe believe mo&s;t noble and ingenuous &s;pirits will confe&s;&s;e, I am no more worthy to be blamed in what pa&s;t neer <HI>Legorn</HI> the 4 of <HI>March</HI> la&s;t, then I was to be blam'd for what pa&s;t among as the 28 and 29 of <HI>Augu&s;t</HI> before, wherein God made me in&s;trumentall to &s;ave a better Ship then the <HI>Leopard,</HI> and a va&s;t E&s;tate of the Nations, for then I did but my endeavour, and both that, with my re|&s;olution will be prov'd to be every whit as much in the la&s;t, as in the former Di&s;pute, &s;o long as in rea&s;on there was any hope; although I confe&s;&s;e it was not an&s;wer'd from Heaven with &s;uch &s;ucce&s;&s;e: And if any man will yet &s;ay, <HI>I would have done more had I been in your place,</HI> I hope he will give me leave to think, that more knowing men would have blamed his prudence, then there is, that would have com|mended his valour.</P>
<PB N="39" REF="20">
<P>In fine, I &s;uppo&s;e if all the paines and care I was at, were well weighed, to keep our Ships from ruine in <HI>Porto Longone,</HI> and what was done to get Victuall and other nece&s;&s;aries for the people ten Moneths together, with the corre&s;pondence I held with mo&s;t adjacent places.</P>
<P>As al&s;o, what hard&s;hip I under-went in &s;undry Journeyes by Sea and Land, to effect the conjunction of both Squa|drons, having been way-laid as I was inform'd &s;undry times. And if it be al&s;o con&s;idered what aver&s;ne&s;&s;e and contrarine&s;&s;e was in mo&s;t peoples &s;pirits (unto this Common-wealths &s;ervice) with whom I had to doe, which men we were yet forc't to make u&s;e of, it mu&s;t needs be concluded, Never any &s;ubject of State or Prince, could po&s;&s;ibly undergo more trou|ble in the time, then I have gone through.</P>
<P>To conclude all, what I crave is onely good acceptance, and that which of right belongs unto me; and the like I de|&s;ire in the behalfe of the States faithfull Servant, Mr. <HI>Charles Longland,</HI> whom the Remon&s;trancer hath greatly abus'd. My practice &s;hall not be after the manner of tho&s;e in <HI>Con&s;tantino|ple,</HI> who going up to that Pallace, take fire on their head, and cry, <HI>Ju&s;tice, Ju&s;tice;</HI> but I hope I &s;hall have that when I go el&s;|where, which will be like fire in my heart, to kindle de&s;ires, that <HI>Davids</HI> la&s;t words may be remembred:</P>
<EPIGRAPH>
<BIBL><HI>2 SAM. 23.3.</HI></BIBL>
<Q>The God of <HI>I&s;rael</HI> &s;aid, and the Rock of <HI>I&s;|rael</HI> &s;pake: Hee that Ruleth over men must be Just, Ruling in the feare of God, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></Q>
</EPIGRAPH>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="abstract">
<PB N="40" REF="21">
<HEAD>&V;pon mature Con&s;ideration, I &s;hall humbly crave leave to adde a &s;hort Breviate or Ab&s;tract of what to my understanding appeareth to be the Cau&s;es of that great Di&s;a&s;ter befell the Squadron neare <HI>Legorn,</HI> the <HI>4</HI> of <HI>March</HI> la&s;t. And I hope what I have to &s;ay, will not be accounted impertinent to the purpo&s;e of clearing up the Truth.</HEAD>
<P>NOt to mention any thing of tho&s;e crying &s;ins w^c^h did not onely make a <HI>Turke,</HI> that being taken with the Excellency of the way of Chri&s;t, and had made &s;ome profe&s;&s;ion of our Religion, for &s;ome Months together abord the <HI>Leopard,</HI> to naucite it, and turne from it (conclu|ding if God were a Holy God, tho&s;e that run into &s;uch E|normities mu&s;t not be his people) which yet doubtle&s;&s;e did provoked God to &s;tretch out his hand again&s;t us.</P>
<P>Nor yet to mention any failing of tho&s;e in <HI>England,</HI> w^c^h &s;hould have done well to have &s;ent us &s;ome kind of reliefe.</P>
<P>But abroad, by what hath been &s;aid, and is hinted in &s;eve|rall Letters I now pre&s;ent, there may be clearly di&s;cerned a perfect number of particulars, &s;hewing what were the impe|diments to our Conjunction, and con&s;equently where the blame ought to be laid; and if the Con&s;cience of the Remon|&s;tancer, and his A&s;&s;ociates will but &s;peak out, I am a&s;&s;ured they mu&s;t &s;ixe and and annex their Acknowledgement there|unto, as unto a mo&s;t real truth.</P>
<P><HI>Fir&s;t,</HI> The &s;tubborne&s;&s;e of the Commanders of the <HI>Samp|&s;on</HI> and <HI>Mary,</HI> and the dulne&s;&s;e and backwardne&s;&s;e of the Commander of the Navy Ships to come out to our A&s;&s;i&s;tance, upon and after our fir&s;t Engagement, although greatly inci|ted thereunto by other Commanders, that in every re&s;pect were under the &s;ame capacity and obligation with them|&s;elves; and it appeareth by &s;undry Letters from Mr. <HI>Long|land,</HI> Con&s;ul <HI>Read,</HI> Capt. <HI>Wood,</HI> and others.</P>
<P><HI>Secondly,</HI> That imprudent act of the Remon&s;trancer, per|form'd
<PB N="41" REF="21">in his owne per&s;on, forcing back a Dutch-man his pri&s;oner from the Great Dukes Centinels hou&s;e, whereunto he had made his e&s;cape, caus'd the Duke to &s;end a Me&s;&s;enger into <HI>England,</HI> which otherwi&s;e had not been &s;ent, as (upon good grounds) Mr. <HI>Longland</HI> advis'd me from time to time, and as was the opinion of the Con&s;ul, and other knowing Merchants, and con&s;equently the di&s;&s;atisfactory An&s;wer he had returned by that Me&s;&s;enger, had not more incens'd him again&s;t us then the naturall genius of Princes towards young Common-wealths would have prompt him unto; &s;o that peradventure, although he lov'd not the Parliament of <HI>Eng|land,</HI> yet he would not have thru&s;t their Ships into the mouths of their Enemies (upon the matter) as he did afterwards.</P>
<P><HI>Thirdly,</HI> The not coming of our three Friggots &amp; the <HI>Harry Bonaventure</HI> from <HI>Naples</HI> unto <HI>Porto Longone,</HI> whil'&s;t the Ene|my had no con&s;iderable &s;trength to re&s;i&s;t us, but contrary to Order going back to <HI>Me&s;&s;ina,</HI> and I know not where, &s;pend|a great deale of time, while we might have done our bu&s;ine&s;s with as much &s;ea&s;onablene&s;&s;e as our heart could de&s;ire; and this appeareth by &s;undry Letters.</P>
<P><HI>Fourthly,</HI> The exceeding backwardne&s;&s;e and unwilling|ne&s;&s;e of &s;ome of tho&s;e Commanders of Engli&s;h Ships at <HI>Ve|nice,</HI> to embrace the States &s;ervice without &s;uch tearmes as could not be well agreed unto by the States &s;ervants; for thereby &s;uch a needle&s;&s;e di&s;pute aro&s;e, that caus'd &s;o much time to be &s;pent to no purpo&s;e, which (in all probability) had been &s;ufficient to have effected our Conjunction, before the 4 of <HI>March</HI> la&s;t; and this will appear by &s;undry Letters from indifferent per&s;ons that were lookers on, as well as from the States Servants.</P>
<P><HI>Fifthly,</HI> The Great Dukes partiality, whether becau&s;e the Dutch were then like to be the &s;tronge&s;t &s;ide, or for other rea|&s;ons I know not; but I am &s;ure he dealt very unworthily with the States Servants, in commanding us out the Port, when as the Enemy was near three to one; and after he had made many complaints of the above-mentioned, for viola|ting his Ports, to give the Dutch liberty to a&s;&s;ault our Ships when their &s;ternes were in the <HI>Mould</HI>-head, and although we
<PB N="42" REF="22">were promis'd from time to time, great a&s;&s;i&s;tance from his Cannons, in ca&s;e the Enemy &s;hould meddle with us within their reach, not to &s;hoot a &s;hot in our defence, when as &s;ome of our Ships were &s;urpri&s;ed within little more then musket &s;hot of his works, was wor&s;e then all the re&s;t.</P>
<P><HI>Sixthly,</HI> The Remon&s;trancers omitting to come out in the night, when as I &s;ent for them in &s;uch a &s;ea&s;on, wherein &s;ome of tho&s;e that were Pylots, in effect, &s;aid of their Command|ers, They were cur&s;ed becau&s;e they took not hold of that op|portunity; and the omi&s;&s;ion was quite contrary to Capt. <HI>Appletons</HI> promi&s;e, by his Letter to me of the 3, 13 of <HI>March,</HI> for therein in An&s;wer to my former Letter, he would come out in the night, if he had my approbation, and he wanted not that, with expre&s;&s;ions from my Lievtenant, how earne&s;t|ly de&s;irous I was to have had them come away with all &s;peed.</P>
<P><HI>Seventhly,</HI> and la&s;tly, Coming out (contrary to their owne deliberate re&s;ult at a Con&s;ultation) before that I was engag'd with the Enemy; whereas notwith&s;tanding, what|ever he &s;imply in&s;erts concerning my requiring him to ha|&s;ten out to me as for life, three or four dayes before the Di&s;|pute, his Letter of the 3, 13 of <HI>March</HI> tels me he had receiv'd my Letters and Orders dated that morning at four a Clock, if that were produc'd (of which I had no time to take a co|py, or have lo&s;t it) I am confident therein it will be found expre&s;t, I was &s;o far from bidding them ha&s;ten to me as for life, that <HI>per contra,</HI> I de&s;ired he would not &s;tir (meaning in the day time) until he &s;aw me engag'd, and in effect he con|fe&s;&s;eth as much, by &s;aying in the afore-mention'd Letter, that <HI>He thank'd me for my care in not hazzarding that Squadron:</HI> Un|to which I &s;hall adde no more, but that I am,</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>Your Honours</HI> Very Humble Servant, RI. BADILEY.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="account">
<PB N="43" REF="22">
<HEAD>AS I was upon returning in with the foregoing An|&s;wer, I have met with a printed paper intituled, <HI>A Relation of the Fight neare</HI> Legorn-<HI>Road, the</HI> 4 <HI>of</HI> March <HI>la&s;t.</HI></HEAD>
<P>And ca&s;ting my eye upon it, I find a Declaration from C. <HI>Seaman,</HI> from C. <HI>Ell,</HI> and from Cap. <HI>Fi&s;her,</HI> which I had ne|ver liberty to &s;ee before, and &s;o it's not po&s;&s;ible for me to give an An&s;wer thereunto at pre&s;ent.</P>
<P>And although therein I find &s;uch horrid fal&s;ities, as fils me with admiration, in regard &s;uch is their boldne&s;&s;e to doe it, even as we u&s;e to &s;ay, in the very face of Authority, an|nexing, it's <HI>Printed by the Printer to the Parliament of</HI> ENG|LAND.</P>
<P>I be&s;eech you give me leave to declare what is on my heart, like as in a ve&s;&s;el that wants vent, and I hope no levity will be found therein.</P>
<P>As the Lord is &s;ometimes plea&s;ed to prevent his by the ble&s;&s;ings of goodne&s;&s;e, &s;o the Remon&s;trancer, and tho&s;e that &s;eem to imbark in the &s;ame cau&s;e with him, &s;uch I heare, as would have been well plea&s;ed with a &s;econd Revolt, I &s;ay they have prevented me, or quite out-&s;tript what I could ima|gine (in point of broaching about their mi&s;chievous &s;lan|ders) &s;o far as the condition of <HI>London</HI> (in the ca&s;e it now &s;tands) is different from the condition of <HI>Oxford,</HI> eight or nine yeares &s;ince.</P>
<P>I &s;hall not yet &s;ay all men are Lyars, or that many have been &s;o, neither &s;hall I yet Query (as one did with his &s;o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> (in another ca&s;e) whether we mu&s;t indeed bow downe to that Image the Enemies of this Common-wealth were deno|minated by a few yeares &s;ince.</P>
<P>Nor &s;hall I yet conclude they have been happy men to be (at lea&s;t) &s;o wi&s;e, as to &s;tand Newters, &s;uch as have look't on, and &s;aid nothing, whatever they have thought, thereby
<PB N="44" REF="23">e&s;caping many a knock that others have met with, among malicious Anvils.</P>
<P>But this I &s;hall conclude, that as the <HI>people is happy who&s;e God is the Lord,</HI> &s;o that particular per&s;on is happy who&s;e inte|re&s;t lies there: And give me leave to adde, of him that hath truth on his &s;ide, like <HI>Oyle,</HI> it will be uppermo&s;t when all is done, and let men doe what they can.</P>
<P>I have onely one or two particulars humbly to mind you of: in a word,</P>
<P>Whether it would not be be&s;t (for the &s;ifting out of truth) to enquire who&s;e hand is in all this: I do not deny but &s;ome whom I have highly honoured in my heart, may be &s;urpri&s;ed about it; yet I &s;ay the root or &s;pring of all this would be look't into.</P>
<P>In the next place, although I would not exa&s;perate a mat|ter, or hunt after the utmo&s;t &s;everity of Ju&s;tice, but rather &s;eek after lenity and mercy in ca&s;e of acknowledgment: yet in the clo&s;e I &s;hall commend unto your Grave Con&s;iderati|on, what I heard was concluded among &s;ome ancient Com|manders, many years &s;ince: <HI>To &s;uffer an inferiour Officer to be abus'd, is ju&s;t as if a man &s;hould &s;uffer his &s;ervant to take hold of any part of his arme, and that commonly opens a gappe, or proclaimes &s;ome kind of liberty to take hold of his Collar;</HI> or tho&s;e Officers (that although &s;ubordinate) are very neer to him: And further, for that to be &s;uffered, it opens a pa&s;&s;age to the Ma&s;ters throat, which every man knowes is very dangerous.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>Your Honours very humble Servant. As</HI> per &s;upra.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="letters">
<PB N="45" REF="23">
<HEAD>Here followeth five Letters from Mr. <HI>Charles Long|land,</HI> the States Publique Mini&s;ter at <HI>Legorn.</HI> Sixe Letters from Mr. <HI>Morgan Reed,</HI> Con&s;ull to the Engli&s;h Nation in that place. Three from Captain <HI>John Wood,</HI> and two letters from Captain <HI>Owen Coxe.</HI></HEAD>
<P><HI>ALl declaring more or le&s;&s;e of the backward|ne&s;&s;e, dulne&s;&s;e, and negligence of the States &s;ervant, Captain</HI> Henry Appleton; <HI>and with|all, the de&s;perate perver&s;ene&s;&s;e, and &s;tubborn|ne&s;&s;e of Captaine</HI> Edmund Seaman, <HI>and his Con&s;ort to a&s;&s;ist in the States &s;ervice, with o|thers under the &s;ame Obligation, in point of Merchants goods with them&s;elves. And whereby all tho&s;e that are unprejudic'd may &s;ee (as cleerly as that which is most di&s;cernable in the face) the Cau&s;e why the Conjunction of the Engli&s;h Ships of War within the Mediter|ranean Sea, was not effected, which in all out|ward appearance was the rea&s;on the</HI> Dutch, <HI>&amp; not the</HI> Engli&s;h <HI>obtained the Victory in tho&s;e parts. And withall who is really in the fault, and to be blamed, in regard the Merchants great E&s;tate by Goods laden in the Levant, was not brought under the States Ships Conduct as well all the way, as pre&s;erved a good part thereof.</HI></P>
<DIV2 TYPE="letter">
<PB N="46" REF="24">
<HEAD>M^r <HI>Charls Longlands</HI> fir&s;t Letter.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Captaine <HI>Badiley.</HI> Sir,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P><HI>THis morning I received yours by Mr.</HI> Lightfoot, <HI>and am in a readine&s;&s;e to obey all your Commands: I have &s;eene with much griefe the troubles have laine upon you in the late fight with the Dutch, e&s;pecially by your owne men: God be prais'd that hath deli|vered you out of them. La&s;t night I &s;ent downe my man,</HI> Edward Goodwin, <HI>in a Feluca laden with powder and match; To morrow I &s;hall di&s;patch away a Frigot with what I can get ready, &s;alt fle&s;h, nor &s;alt fi&s;h any to be had, &s;o you mu&s;t be content with fre&s;h, till a moneth more be over. I have &s;ent you &s;ome money, and &s;hall &s;upply you with more as occa&s;ion &s;hall pre&s;ent. I have &s;ent to</HI> Genoa <HI>to buy</HI> 100. <HI>barrels of powder, and &s;ent up to</HI> Florence <HI>to get another parcell, &s;o all, or part &s;hall be &s;ent you by the fir&s;t. As well the Men of Warre as the Merchant-men lie very &s;afe in this Port, for I &s;ee no inclination in the fir&s;t to &s;tirre without the later; if they would have done it, you had not come hither (or &s;o farre alone) for I often importun'd Cap.</HI> Appleton <HI>before the Warwick depar|ted to appoint you a place of Randezvous, either at</HI> Maritimo, <HI>or</HI> Tunis, <HI>but without the Merchant men went with him he would not &s;tirre. This day dyed Cap.</HI> Witherage, <HI>not being above four dayes &s;icke: Our fre&s;he&s;t Letters out of</HI> England <HI>the</HI> 29. <HI>of</HI> July, <HI>the States have promi&s;ed the Company a Fleete of Ships to be &s;ent into the&s;e Seas to bring off the&s;e &s;hips. I have nothing more to en|large, &s;o I &s;ub&s;cribe my &s;elfe</HI></P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your faithfull &s;ervant, <HI>Charls Longland.</HI></SIGNED>
<DATELINE>Legorr. <DATE><HI>Sept.</HI> 12. 1652.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="letter">
<PB N="47" REF="24">
<HEAD>Mr. <HI>Longland's</HI> 2 Letter.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Captain Badiley.</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P><HI>THis is to accompany a &s;mall Brigantine or Lint, laden with provi&s;ions, according to the inclo&s;ed Bill of Lading, which I have con&s;igned to Mr.</HI> John Wood, <HI>in ca&s;e the Boat &s;hould not be able to get into</HI> Porto Longone, <HI>that then Mr.</HI> Wood <HI>might follow your Order in its di&s;po&s;all in</HI> Porto Ferraro, <HI>or</HI> Piombei|no, <HI>which I am a&s;&s;ured he will be carefull of it, for he is an hone&s;t man, and more forward to doe any &s;ervice that concernes the bene|fit or honour of our Nation, then tho&s;e in this place that are tru&s;ted with it. Ye&s;terday came in one &s;hip from the Ea&s;t, another from the We&s;t, and the</HI> Flemmings <HI>&s;ent out one of their &s;hips to &s;ee what they were, if it had proved the</HI> Harry Bonaventure, <HI>or any other Engli&s;h &s;hip, you may judge what had been become of them; for the States two &s;hips ride very &s;afely in the Mould, without the lea&s;t appearance of going to Sea. I herewith &s;end you &s;ome Letters, and &s;hall &s;end you more by the next conveyance. You will heare of Capt.</HI> Witheradges <HI>death. In</HI> Holland <HI>are two parties, one for the Prince of</HI> Orange, <HI>another again&s;t, accordingly is their affe|ctions to</HI> England. <HI>I re&s;t,</HI></P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Yours, <HI>Charls Longland.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>Mr. Longlands <HI>3</HI> Letter.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Capt. Badiley,</SALUTE>
<SALUTE>SIR;</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P><HI>UPon receipt of yours of the</HI> 14 <HI>currant, I was re&s;olved to de|part hence immediately towards you, but the returne of my &s;ervant</HI> Edw. Goodwin <HI>the next morning, brought me better Newes, that you were not in &s;o bad a condition. I &s;tay for the gold Chaine from</HI> Florence, <HI>which when it comes I &s;hall be going to|wards you; in the mean time I &s;end you a &s;econd Boat laden with Provi&s;ions, and is con&s;igned to Mr.</HI> Lightfoot <HI>in</HI> Porto Fer|raro,
<PB N="48" REF="25"><HI>who I have commended there to Signior</HI> Boucetano <HI>the Go|vernours Secretary. This day we had received Letters out of</HI> Eng|land, <HI>to the</HI> 16 <HI>or</HI> 26 <HI>of</HI> Augu&s;t, <HI>Generall</HI> Blake <HI>was returned from the North, and was about</HI> Yarmouth, <HI>Sir</HI> George Askue <HI>was at</HI> Plymouth, <HI>the Dutch with a hundred &s;aile (whereof one third men of war) were pa&s;t the Channell we&s;tward, &s;ome &s;ay they were put into</HI> Torbay. <HI>The generall advi&s;e from</HI> England <HI>is, That no &s;uccour is like to come hither till the</HI> 2 <HI>Fleets have fought. Capt.</HI> Appleton <HI>is gone to</HI> Pi&s;a <HI>and</HI> Lucca: <HI>The</HI> Phaenix <HI>is come hither, and hath but</HI> 30 <HI>men on bord, which I told the States &s;ervants, but they have no mind to her.</HI></P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>I re&s;t your Servant. <HI>Charls Longland.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>Mr. <HI>Longlands 4</HI> Letter.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Capt. Badiley,</SALUTE>
<SALUTE>SIR;</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>I <HI>Have received yours of the</HI> 12 <HI>or</HI> 22, <HI>the</HI> Bri&s;tow <HI>Ship came into this Road ye&s;terday, where &s;he &s;till continues, we have in Road two men of War, and two others lately come out of</HI> Hol|land, <HI>the one bound for</HI> Scanderonne, <HI>the other for</HI> Smyrna, <HI>to convey three &s;hips thither; the re&s;t of the Ships are at Sea, but where, or whether gone I know not, I believe &s;ome are gone to</HI> Tellone, <HI>to rai&s;e men and victuals. Three new rai&s;ed &s;hips at</HI> Ve|nice <HI>departed to</HI> We&s;tward <HI>ten days &s;ince, it may be they will look into your Port. Concerning what you wrote of the</HI> 11 <HI>or</HI> 21, <HI>about the Governour of</HI> Porto Ferraro, <HI>his deniall to let you come into that Mould; I went to the Great Dukes Secretary, that the Mer|chants &s;hips at leo&s;t, that had Goods for</HI> Legorn, <HI>might goe and li|ver &s;uch Goods, or if the re&s;t of the Ships would lay up their Goods there upon &s;uch tearmes as the</HI> Samp&s;on <HI>doth here, till they finde an opportunity to depart for</HI> England, <HI>they might doe it. I have had an An&s;wer, that what&s;oever Goods the &s;hips will liver, &s;halbe receiv'd, and well lookt to at</HI> Porto Ferraro; <HI>for which pur|po&s;e I di&s;patch this Footman with &s;uch an Order to the Governour</HI>
<PB N="53" REF="25">from <HI>England,</HI> but I doubt affaires there will require Forces about them, &s;uppo&s;ing a Conjunction hath happened with you, and Capt. <HI>Appleton.</HI> God direct you for the be&s;t. I did put Capt. <HI>Appleton,</HI> and M. <HI>Longland</HI> in mind thereof ye&s;ter|day, it hath been a bu&s;ine&s;&s;e too much omitted formerly, I wi&s;h remedy in future. The <HI>Little Lewis</HI> is in <HI>Civita Vechia,</HI> I wrote him to carreene his &s;hip, and to attend your Com|mands, I am confident my Letters may &s;omewhat prevaile; if you think good, notwith&s;tanding former mi&s;-under&s;tand|ing, hee's neer at hand: I could wi&s;h care were taken by <HI>Felueas,</HI> for the pre&s;ervation of the <HI>Harry bonaventure,</HI> and <HI>Imployment.</HI> With my kinde Salutes I re&s;t,</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Yours, Morgan Reed.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>Con&s;ull <HI>Reed's 3</HI> Letter.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>SIR,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>I Wrote you by M. <HI>Goodwin,</HI> and &s;ince by M. <HI>Wood;</HI> the la&s;t can further tell you how much I &s;tirred upon the fir&s;t Newes of your Engagement with the <HI>Hollanders,</HI> for the&s;e &s;hips to a&s;&s;i&s;t you: I found in Capt. <HI>Appleton</HI> cou|rage and re&s;olution, I am &s;orry it was not put in executi|on; both that and &s;omewhat el&s;e, God grant the ob&s;tru|ctions and delayes prove not prejudiciall. I was &s;orry to heare &s;omewhat concerning your doubts, wherein I am not &s;atisfied; but M. <HI>Longland</HI> telleth me, M. <HI>Goodwin</HI> bring|eth better Newes, and the confirmation of that Governours con&s;tancy towards your &s;ecurity; I told M. <HI>Longland</HI> my &s;ence of the bu&s;ine&s;&s;e. I have wrote a friend in <HI>Rome</HI> to pro|cure from the Spani&s;h Amba&s;&s;ador, Letters unto the Go|vernour for continuance of his friend&s;hip towards us, hap|pily you may have it thence directly. Time gives the Ene|my opportunity to recruit, they are diligent and vigilant, I wi&s;h we were, or had been &s;o from hence. God direct you
<PB N="54" REF="26">for the be&s;t, and give you, and tho&s;e with you, courage and &s;trength, to act what the honour of our Nation, in you all is required, for your owne &s;afeties. And I put you in mind, Authority mu&s;t be in &s;uch ca&s;es made u&s;e of, unto the utter|mo&s;t, both in faire and rugged wayes, when faire cannot take place. With my &s;alutes I re&s;t,</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Levorn,</HI> <DATE>18 <HI>Oct.</HI> 1652.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Yours, Morgan Reed.</SIGNED>
<POSTSCRIPT>
<P><HI>Sir,</HI> I wi&s;h you have a &s;peciall care no parlies from the Enemies, or meeting be permitted out of your owne Ship, or any of your Squadron to goe on bord theirs, or enter|taine di&s;cour&s;e on bord, or a&s;hore, but by your Order, and the le&s;&s;e you have, I hold the better. Againe, God direct you for the be&s;t. The <HI>Harry Bonaventure</HI> is &s;afe at <HI>Naples,</HI> I wi&s;h care be taken for the <HI>Employment.</HI> Sir, have a care your people avoid eating of <HI>Grapes,</HI> and <HI>Mellons,</HI> all Fruit breeds <HI>Feavers,</HI> and <HI>Fluxes,</HI> whereof ours begin to &s;mart for it.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Idem <DATE>16 <HI>October,</HI> 1653.</DATE> Livorn.</DATELINE></CLOSER>
</POSTSCRIPT></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>Con&s;ull <HI>Reed's 4</HI> Letter.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Good Sir;</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>ALthough I have dome&s;tick &s;orrow in the lo&s;&s;e of my &s;ervant this morning, yet my mind runs on the great danger I apprehend may befall you there, if others be&s;ide your &s;elfe doe not &s;tir, and take it into con&s;ideration. I was once in hope of the going out of Capt. <HI>Appleton,</HI> and &s;ome others with him, that I a&s;&s;ured unto my &s;elfe a defeat of the&s;e &s;hips that lay in this Port, as well as a reliefe, and beating the Enemy thence, which doubtle&s;&s;e upon the &s;ight of the&s;e would gladly have e&s;caped hence; but however it hath been delayed, and let &s;lip &s;o probable an opportunity, Heave to them it concerns to an&s;wer, I wi&s;h they them&s;elves
<PB N="47" REF="26">with your Squadron, do not come endangered thereby, the unhappy lo&s;s of the <HI>Phoenix</HI> Frigot hath daunted &s;om, &amp; en|courag'd the enemy, who as I wrot was diligent &amp; vigilant both in gathering Merchants &s;hips into their &s;ervice, as in &s;hipping any &s;ort or Nation to man them, and therein they &s;tir; we have now 8 &s;hips of them lying in the road, compre|hending our intended Fire-&s;hip, and that unhappy <HI>quandum Phaenix</HI> Frigot in the Mould. God &s;trengthen you all, and tho&s;e here, with &s;pirits to provide for your &s;elves. I have noted to you all the &s;hips here, and the <HI>Harry Bonyventure</HI> at <HI>Naples,</HI> as the <HI>Lewis</HI> in <HI>Civita Vechia.</HI> An a&s;&s;urance of a re|ward, and a loving Letter from you, as Authority to com|mand, if they, or the&s;e &s;hould refu&s;e a&s;&s;i&s;tance in &s;o emer|gent an occa&s;ion; when you by a Councel of War &s;hall think convenient for the pre&s;ervation of that Squadron, and wherein lyeth involv'd, as I apprehend, in part, the Honour of our Nation, together with the great E&s;tates of many Merchants (I &s;ay under correction) I apprehend all ought to give their a&s;&s;i&s;tance; but in this, and matters of &s;uch concernments, I &s;hall leave unto your Re&s;ults, in ca&s;e you plea&s;e to debate theron. And I will pray God to direct you for the be&s;t, and in the interim, neither will I be idle; I have wrote unto a friend at <HI>Rome,</HI> to procure the Spani&s;h Amba&s;&s;adors Letters as unto <HI>Genoa,</HI> for others thence, all in your favour to that Governour. This is what I thought upon, when I &s;ee my endeavours could not pro|cure the&s;e &s;hips going forth. If I can think of ought el&s;e may be &s;erviceable unto you, or that you may apprehend I may &s;erve you in, plea&s;e to command, you &s;hall alwayes find me (no le&s;&s;e then ever you knew me) ready to &s;erve and promote the welfare of our Nation, as if I may in your perticular &s;erve you, &s;o it be without jealou&s;ie to encroach; you &s;hall finde me alwayes</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your affectionate Friend, Morgan Reed.</SIGNED>
<POSTSCRIPT>
<PB N="48" REF="27">
<P>This is the fourth Letter I have wrote you; the fir&s;t <HI>per</HI> M. <HI>Goodwin,</HI> who tells me he had delivered the &s;ame; the other <HI>per</HI> M. <HI>Wood,</HI> who I a&s;&s;ure my &s;elfe he hath delivered, the third I delivered to M. <HI>Goodwin,</HI> who tels me he had de|livered it to M. <HI>Lightfoot:</HI> I wi&s;h you all happine&s;&s;e, and re&s;t as above.</P>
<P>I have put our Factors here in mind to &s;tudy &s;ome way to &s;end for the fine Goods there, in ca&s;e of eminent danger; but I ob&s;erve no re&s;olution. God direct all for the be&s;t; I apprehend the &s;hips will be le&s;&s;e pe&s;tred, and more &s;ervice|able.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Livorn,</HI> <DATE>19. 7<HI>ber.</HI> 1652.</DATE></DATELINE> <HI>Vale.</HI></CLOSER>
</POSTSCRIPT></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>Con&s;ull <HI>Reed's</HI> 5 Letter. <HI>Livorn,</HI> October 26. 1652.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>SIR,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>IN An&s;wer unto yours 21 currant, I have not failed upon all occa&s;ions to further and &s;olicite the going out of the&s;e &s;hips, but Capt. <HI>Seaman,</HI> and M. <HI>Roopes</HI> flat deniall, without Order from their Owners, or Commands from the State, giveth &s;uch a dulne&s;&s;e in the pro&s;ecution thereof, that I have little hopes of the &s;tirring hence of the men of War; God knoweth the vexation of &s;pirit I have had here|abouts, and the more for that unto me it appeared facill to have at the fir&s;t de&s;troyed, or beaten out of the way the &s;mall force of the Enemy then lying before this Port; and the more, in relation to the weakne&s;&s;e ours would have found that batter'd Fleet before yours: &s;o that I appre|hended the &s;ight of the&s;e would have made them flye, or if &s;tood, not able to encounter the&s;e; my opinion at fir&s;t was embrac't with a &s;eeming forwardne&s;&s;e and alacrity in Capt. <HI>Appleton,</HI> and &s;ome others, and voted requi&s;ite by mo&s;t of the Nation at that time, but how dulled, and not put in execution, I leave it to them it concerns to An&s;wer, for its
<PB N="49" REF="27">not putting the &s;ame in execution in &s;uch eminent and e|mergent occa&s;ions, I apprehend Authority with compul&s;i|on &s;hould have been u&s;ed, with promi&s;e of pay from the State for the &s;ervice, and indempnity unto the Comman|ders for their Ownets and Merchants, this would have ren|dred them unexcu&s;able, and without que&s;tion the State would have gratefully ratified &s;uch a re&s;olution in their Mini&s;ters and Commanders, which I not onely pre&s;&s;ed of|ten unto Capt. <HI>Appleton,</HI> but unto M. <HI>Longland,</HI> out of zeale to the pre&s;ervation and reputation of the Nation. What An&s;wer Capt. <HI>Seaman,</HI> and M. <HI>Roope</HI> &s;ince have given in to Capt. <HI>Cox,</HI> upon your de&s;ires, as how he finds the men of War fitted, and their re&s;ults, I leave unto Capt. <HI>Coxes</HI> Re|lation, who al&s;o can certifie you how far I &s;tirred therein.</P>
<P>I have from the friend I employed at <HI>Rome,</HI> a returne with a Letter from Cardinall <HI>Triultio,</HI> the greate&s;t Mini&s;ter the <HI>Spaniards</HI> have in <HI>Italy,</HI> who recommends your intere&s;t unto that Governours care. From <HI>Genoa,</HI> the Mini&s;ters of <HI>Spaine</HI> were abroad, as M. <HI>Lewis</HI> his Letter will tell you, which I &s;end you for the Newes therein, after peru&s;all you may returne it me. The Cardinals Letter is open, &s;o you may read it, and then wet the Wafer, and clo&s;e it before delivery. I pray God put into your hearts re&s;olution, and to act what may be for your &s;afety &s;peedily, ere more Ve&s;&s;els &s;ent hence: And with my &s;alutes to you and your Officers, my old friend <HI>M. Watts,</HI> Leiv. <HI>Stone, M. Tanner,</HI> &amp;c. I re|maine,</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Yours, Morgan Reed.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>Con&s;ull <HI>Reed's 6</HI> Letter.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>SIR,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>I Wrote you under the 26 pa&s;t, and therein &s;ent a Letter from the Cardinall <HI>Triultio,</HI> chief Mini&s;ter of <HI>Spaine,</HI> and
<PB N="50" REF="28">Amba&s;&s;ador with the Pope for the King of <HI>Spaine,</HI> unto that Governour, and being I was then going to <HI>Pi&s;a,</HI> to a&s;|&s;i&s;t Capt. <HI>Cox</HI> about the Corn-&s;hip, I left it unto the care of Capt. <HI>Appleton,</HI> for its &s;peedy conveyance unto you; tel|ling him withall how much it might import its &s;peedy be|ing with you, he promi&s;ed to further accordingly, and I &s;hall gladly under&s;tand you have it, as that it may be u&s;e|full unto you; and if in ought el&s;e you can imagine me ca|pable of doing any &s;ervice, freely command me.</P>
<P>Inclo&s;ed I &s;ent you &s;uch Newes now come to hand from <HI>Genoa,</HI> which anticipateth our Letter not yet arrived from <HI>London,</HI> when you have peru&s;ed the &s;ame, plea&s;e to returne it. I am &s;till &s;orry no re&s;olution hence in our Ships going forth to relieve you; and I fear, as I tell them, <HI>Fryer Bacons</HI> la&s;t Vote will &s;oon come upon them, <HI>viz.</HI> That &s;ince <HI>time was,</HI> and <HI>time is</HI> (that time drawes neer) wilbe <HI>pa&s;t:</HI> I can tell you the Enemy is vigilant, and diligent, both here, and at <HI>Genoa,</HI> and &s;peedily may be in &s;uch a po&s;ture as may give you rea&s;on to doubt to engage: God of his mercy put in your hearts to re&s;olve and doe what's requi&s;ite for your pre&s;ervation. In ha&s;t I re&s;t. I am told a Fire&s;hip is gone now towards <HI>Longone,</HI> hence.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Legorn, <DATE><HI>Octob.</HI> 1. 1652.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>Captaine <HI>Woods</HI> fir&s;t Letter.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE><HI>Cap.</HI> Ri. Badiley.</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P><HI>HOnoured SIR, I de&s;ire to ble&s;&s;e God for your &s;afety, being delivered from your Enemie, and &s;orry for the lo&s;&s;e of one of your Squadron, as al&s;o that you could have no a&s;&s;i&s;tance from any that is here; but of that no more now. Captain</HI> Witherage <HI>this day departed this life, and Captain</HI> Appleton <HI>not very well, con&s;e|quently the Squadron not in a good po&s;ture, which I am &s;orry to &s;ee, rather wi&s;hing that we had &s;ome good Re&s;olutions to do a little work before us. Not above foure &s;aile of Ships doe keepe us all here, and
<PB N="51" REF="28">I &s;uppo&s;e at la&s;t it will be put to you to contrive our worke for us, &amp; the Lord direct you in it: &s;o time not permitting at pre&s;ent, but by the next &s;hall be larger, of our cro&s;&s;e providences. No newes from</HI> England, <HI>with my humble re&s;pects to you</HI></P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Legorn, <DATE><HI>Sept.</HI> 3. 1653.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Remain your Servant, <HI>John Wood.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>Capt. Wood's <HI>2</HI> Letter.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Capt. Ri. Badiley,</SALUTE>
<SALUTE>SIR;</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P><HI>YOurs by the Satty, and another by Capt.</HI> Cox, <HI>came to my hands, and am glad you have found out &s;uch a way to &s;ecure your Provi&s;ions, as for the Governour to owne it: I doe wi&s;h in the mean time, none of our Boats run into danger, for the Barque men are very incident to lead them, if they will be rul'd by them; &s;o am I al&s;o glad of your care in &s;ending Capt.</HI> Cox <HI>to &s;tir us up at</HI> Le|gorn, <HI>in each bu&s;ine&s;&s;e I &s;hall not be wanting according to my po|wer, the &s;ucce&s;&s;e I &s;hall refer to God, who is able to judge of all our intentions. The Lord in mercy &s;end us united hearts in this time of Tryall, unto who&s;e goodne&s;&s;e I commend you, and re&s;pect|fully re&s;t</HI></P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Piombeene,</HI> <DATE>7^b^e^r 8. 1652.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Yours, <HI>John Wood.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>Capt. Cox's <HI>1</HI> Letter.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>SIR;</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P><HI>AFter the tender of my &s;ervice, I &s;alute you, tru&s;ting in the protection of the Almighty, you are in good health, with all our Chri&s;tian friends; I de&s;ire to be excus'd for not writing at my fir&s;t arrivall to this place of</HI> Livorn; <HI>the cau&s;e of my delay was to
<PB N="52" REF="29">&s;ee the re&s;olution of Capt.</HI> Appleton, <HI>with the Commanders of the Merchants &s;hips, but from the fir&s;t day to this time they have kept their re&s;olution. The</HI> Samp&s;on <HI>and</HI> Mary <HI>will not budge, they &s;ay they did not com to convey men of War, I believe they have been put on by the di&s;&s;affected porty here of Merchants. So having not els at pre&s;ent, I humbly take leave, and re&s;t,</HI> &amp;c.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>L<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">g.</HI> <DATE>Sept. 24. 1652.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Owen Cox.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>Capt. <HI>Cox's 2</HI> Letter.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Sir;</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P><HI>AFter the tender of my mo&s;t humble &s;ervice, I give you to un|der&s;tand that I have received yours the</HI> 30 <HI>of the la&s;t, where|in you are plea&s;ed to hint to me my &s;lackne&s;&s;e in writing to you; I de&s;ire your favourable excu&s;e in that particular: The great and chiefe&s;t cau&s;e of my omi&s;&s;ien, is becau&s;e I hop'd we might doe &s;ome acceptable &s;ervice here worth the imparting to you. I wrote you in my lo&s;t the hopes I had of the reducing the</HI> Phaenix, <HI>the bu&s;ine&s;&s;e was brought to a head, I then receiv'd a Command from Capt.</HI> Ap|pleton <HI>not to per&s;i&s;t any further in it, which hath been a great trouble to my &s;pirit, yet re&s;olved to proceed in it; but to cro&s;&s;e me in my re&s;olution, the</HI> Flemmings <HI>were made acquainted with it, and &s;et a &s;trong guard abord the Frigot: I had fitted two Barques with forty men a peece, to bord her, which I did not que&s;tion in the lea&s;t, but to have carried her, but was betrayed by him whom it doth &s;o much concerne. Sir, the Fire&s;hip departed this Port with a man of War, about two a clock this morning, intending for</HI> Porto Lon|gone, <HI>I hope God will pre&s;erve you: Having not el&s;e at pre&s;ent, humbly take my leave, and re&s;t</HI></P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Levorn,</HI> <DATE>9 <HI>Oct.</HI> 1652.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Owen Cox.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>Capt. <HI>Appleton's</HI> fir&s;t Letter, and two more
<PB N="53" REF="29">were received from him of this tenor, men|tioning nothing of his Sickne&s;&s;e.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Capt. Badiley,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P><HI>BY the Ve&s;&s;ell Capt.</HI> Cox <HI>found at Sea, which arrived late bere ye&s;ternight, we perceive that the ten &s;aile of Hollanders have met with you, and were in Fight, we have &s;ent two Felucas on purpo&s;e to &s;ee how it is with you, of which we hope well; if you goe in for any Port, I pray give me notice, that I with the re&s;t of our &s;hips here, may give you our be&s;t a&s;&s;i&s;tance, we are hauling out of the Mould with the</HI> Leopard <HI>and</HI> Bonaventure. <HI>The &s;hip</HI> Mary, Perrigreen, Levant Merchant, <HI>and one M.</HI> Edge <HI>of</HI> 18 <HI>Guns,</HI> will be all ready to depart this place in the morning, and &s;hall watch the motion of the&s;e five &s;hips that are here. I am mind|ed to take in a hundred Barrels of Powder more, in ca&s;e you &s;hould want, and intend to bring two Felucas along with me, to go to and againe upon occa&s;ion, in having corre&s;pondence, and taking ad|vi&s;e with you. I have not el&s;e but my prayers to God for you, and the &s;hips under convoy, and that our meeting may be &s;afe, and &s;uc|ce&s;sfull, remaine</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Yours, Henry Appleton.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>Captain <HI>Appleton's</HI> fourth Letter followeth; telling me that the <HI>Dutch</HI> them&s;elves con|fe&s;t, a greater Sea-Fight had not been in their remembrance; and that they were as much torne as the <HI>Engli&s;h:</HI> One may won|der &s;ince it was &s;o, why he came not out.</HEAD>
<PB N="54" REF="30">
<OPENER><SALUTE>Capt. Badiley,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>YOurs by M. <HI>Light foot</HI> ye&s;terday-morning, came to my hands, and received this morning yours by M. <HI>Cart|wright,</HI> and am very glad to hear of your pro&s;perity and welfare, after this hot and tedious di&s;pute of yours with the Hollanders, and of the good &s;ervice which Gapt. <HI>Cox</HI> in the <HI>Warwick</HI> perform'd, and under God in your behalfe. Sir, I wi&s;h with all my heart that my &s;elfe and the <HI>Bona|venture</HI> had been with you in this your late Engagement, que&s;tioning not but by Gods a&s;&s;i&s;tance to have gain'd the Victory, yet ble&s;&s;ed be his name it's no wor&s;e with you, if con&s;idering aright your condition, and the carriage of &s;ome Commanders under you, in this bu&s;ine&s;&s;e it could not have been conjectured for you, with your Merchants &s;hips to come off with tho&s;e Flemmings &s;o well as you did, ac|knowledging God was much &s;een in it. I hear by the Hol|landers who have writ to their Agent here, there hath not been a hotter di&s;pute on the Sea to their remembrance, then this hath been, confe&s;&s;ing them&s;elves are as much torne as you are. The lo&s;&s;e of the <HI>Phaenix</HI> I am very &s;orry for, know|ing no man can govern any more &s;hips then him&s;elfe is a|bord of. I would de&s;ire your approbation in placing a Commander in the <HI>Bonaventure,</HI> in my opinion none more fiter then Capt. <HI>Cox</HI> for the &s;aid place, if it &s;tand with your liking pray per&s;wade Capt. <HI>Cox</HI> to it, that &s;hip hath never been well govern'd this voyage; I would have Capt. <HI>Cox</HI> &s;ea&s;e his re&s;olution to come from you as yet; I intend if it plea&s;e Almighty God to give me &s;trength of body, with|in two or three dayes to come over with M. <HI>Wood</HI> and o|ther Commanders to you to <HI>Porto Longone,</HI> the Merchants want two weeks Letters; we have notice now that the Great Duke hath received a Letter from his Agent in <HI>Lon|don,</HI> that Capt. <HI>Nicholas Reed</HI> hath the Command of fifteen &s;hips which are in the <HI>Downes,</HI> and as he &s;aith ready to de|part to this place: Not el&s;e at pre&s;ent to advi&s;e you, with my prayers for a &s;afe meeting, remaine</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Lego.</HI> <DATE>Sept. 3. 1652.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Yours, <HI>Henry Appleton.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="letter">
<PB N="55" REF="30">
<HEAD>Capt. Appleton's <HI>5</HI> Letter.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Capt. Ri. Badiley,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P><HI>YOur Letter by Capt.</HI> Cox <HI>of the</HI> 8 <HI>in&s;tant received, &s;ince had not an opportunity to write to you, nor have not received any from you; I perceive you doe approve of what I wrote concerning placing Capt.</HI> Cox <HI>Commander of the</HI> Bonaventure, <HI>which is ac|cordingly done. M^r</HI> Longland, <HI>my &s;elfe, and Capt.</HI> Cox, <HI>have &s;everall times u&s;ed the be&s;t Oratory that we could, for the per&s;wa|ding of Capt.</HI> Seaman <HI>Commander of the</HI> Samp&s;on, <HI>and Mr.</HI> Gilbert Roope, <HI>Commander of the</HI> Mary, <HI>to fit their &s;hips to goe out with us, but they will by no meanes condi&s;cend unto it; there was then, and is now in this road, nine &s;aile of</HI> Hollands <HI>men of War, one of which we &s;uppo&s;e to be a Fire-&s;hip; my &s;elfe and the</HI> Bonaventure, <HI>with Mr.</HI> Wood <HI>and Mr.</HI> Mar&s;h, <HI>who &s;hew both willingne&s;&s;e to the &s;ervice, have not above &s;eventy men be|twixt both their &s;hips, it would be too great an advantage for the enemy upon us, we being but foure &s;hips. I doe well approve of your advi&s;e in &s;tanding to the &s;outhward of the I&s;land; if we were well able to encounter the&s;e nine in the road, that then you would en|deavour to breake through them &s;eaven &s;hips which keep you in that Port; but I &s;ee not in any likelihood which way we can doe it, being but two men of War to confide in: No man &s;hould be more forward or willing then my &s;elfe, to advance the &s;ervice of the State, if that I did &s;ee any probability thereof. I have received &s;e|verall Letters from Mr.</HI> iNich: Gold, <HI>one of the Committee of the Novy, and he, and Capt.</HI> Ryder, <HI>both write unto me that there will be very &s;uddenly a good Squadron di&s;peeded for our &s;upply, Mr.</HI> Longland <HI>hath the like Newes from Col.</HI> Thom&s;on, <HI>but it's de|&s;ired it may be kept private. I have notice of the Expre&s;&s;e I &s;ent on purpo&s;e is arrived with the States. I have not received any Let|ters or Orders from the Committee of the Navy, &s;ince I came into this Road, but expect by the next Po&s;t. I remaine</HI></P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Abord the Leopard in Leg. Mould,</HI> <DATE>18 <HI>Sep.</HI> 1652.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Henry Appleton.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="letter">
<PB N="56" REF="31">
<HEAD>Mr. Longlands <HI>6</HI> Letter. Octob. <HI>19</HI></HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">Telling us, that among other Troubles we had fal&s;e Brethren.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Captain Badiley.</SALUTE>
<SALUTE>SIR;</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>I <HI>Have received yours of the</HI> 2 <HI>and</HI> 5 <HI>currant, the latter came to my hands this day: Your Letters for</HI> England <HI>came too late for this ordinary, by the next they &s;hall be &s;ent forward. The Dutch have advice of a great Sea-fight in the mouth of the Channell, wherein they &s;ay they have &s;unk</HI> 14 <HI>&s;aile, and as many of our &s;hips are returned into</HI> Bre&s;t; <HI>I have Letters from</HI> Am&s;terdam <HI>as fre&s;h as any, but they writ nothing thereof they there heard of your di&s;pute, &s;o next week the News will be in</HI> Eng. <HI>I &s;end you this man expres to advi&s;e you that la&s;t night departed hence the</HI> Bri&s;tow <HI>Prize, which is made a Fire-&s;hip, &s;o it were convenient you &s;ent up to the Generall to acquaint him with it, that he may deny her coming into Port, for her coming thither can be with no other intent but to de|&s;troy your &s;hips; at lea&s;t let the Governour &s;end abord to &s;earch her, and he &s;hall find the Ship full of Faggots and Bru&s;h, and &s;uch combu&s;tible matter. I referre you to Capt.</HI> Coxes <HI>Relation, to tell you how his de&s;igne on the</HI> Phaenix <HI>is di&s;covered, by &s;ome fal&s;e Brother from abord the Ships.</HI> Van Trump <HI>is now come hither to take po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion: &s;o no more thoughts of her till it plea&s;e God to &s;end &s;ome other &s;uccour: Col.</HI> Thomp&s;on <HI>gives me hopes of &s;uc|cour for the&s;e &s;hips.</HI></P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Legorn,</HI> <DATE>Octob. 19. 1652.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Charls Longland.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>Mr. <HI>Longland's</HI> 7 Letter.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">Shewing how gallantly we had be en to pa&s;&s;e, in ca&s;e the three Frigots and <HI>Harry Bona|naventure,</HI>
<PB N="57" REF="31">had not gone to <HI>Me&s;&s;ina,</HI> but have gone to <HI>Porto Longone,</HI> as it was de|&s;ired.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Capt. Ri. Badiley,</SALUTE>
<SALUTE>SIR;</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>I <HI>Wrote you ye&s;terday by the pre&s;ent, in an&s;wer to yours received by the Footman; this day I called the Commanders together, and delivered them your Letters, who are now making all ready to &s;aile: La&s;t night went out</HI> Van Gallen <HI>and another &s;hip, who in the night run a&s;hore at</HI> Vada, <HI>as the Bearer hereof will inform you: when you writ your la&s;t Orders to the&s;e Commanders to come away, you did not know otherwi&s;e but that the Frigots and the</HI> Harry Bonaventure <HI>might be with you to joyne together, but I fear your Order to them to that purpo&s;e came &s;hort, for ten dayes afore they were all together in the Vare of</HI> Me&s;&s;ina, <HI>&s;o you may imagine which way they are going. Six of the Enemy lye at the entrance of the gulfe of</HI> Venice: <HI>I di&s;patch this Feluca to you to know where</HI> Van Trumps <HI>Squadron is, for if the&s;e &s;hips depart, it's probable the Five &s;hips of the Enemy will fly before them, till they come nigh with another Squadron, and ten or twelve &s;hips together may much prejudice the&s;e; wherefore pray informe us well by returne of this Feluca where they are; and give us your ab&s;olute Order whether the&s;e &s;hips &s;hall come, and accordingly they will proceed by Gods ble&s;&s;ing. We have made choice of Capt.</HI> Seaman <HI>to Command the</HI> Leopard, <HI>Mr.</HI> Roopes <HI>Owners de&s;ires</HI> Fi&s;her <HI>to be Command|er, &s;o I think it be&s;t to let it re&s;t for quietnes &s;ake. I take leave, and re&s;t,</HI></P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>At your Command Charls Longland.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE><HI>Legorn,</HI> <DATE>Feb. 10. 1653.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>Mr. Longlands <HI>8</HI> Letter.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">Shewing how cauteous he was in Impre&s;ting
<PB N="58" REF="32">Merchants Ships into the Service.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Capt. Badiley,</SALUTE>
<SALUTE>SIR;</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>I <HI>Writ you the</HI> 19 <HI>in&s;tant by a Footman which I &s;ent you Expre&s;s, that the Dutch had that day &s;ent hence the</HI> Bri&s;tow <HI>Prize, whereof they had made a Fire-&s;hip: This morning is come in|to Port about nine &s;aile of Dutch, which are &s;aid to be tho&s;e that lay at</HI> Porto Longone, <HI>if &s;o that your place be clear of them, I hope the Merchants &s;hips that have Goods for this place, have made u&s;e of the opportunity to goe into</HI> Porto Ferraro, <HI>where immedi|ate Order will be taken for delivery of their Goods.</HI></P>
<P><HI>This day I have received large Letters from the</HI> Councell of State, <HI>whereof the inclo&s;ed to you will give you notice, and impart unto you. I &s;uppo&s;e the Contents of what they have writ to me, a|bout taking up Merchants &s;hips for their &s;ervice; wherein I am to advi&s;e with you and Capt.</HI> Appleton, <HI>how far it will be conveni|ent to doe it; for as I would not by any means &s;pare their money for the Nationall good or &s;ervice, &s;o I would not willingly freight &s;hips at the publick Charge, to lye &s;till in Port, and doe nothing. I am &s;orry you are at &s;uch a di&s;tance that we cannot &s;o well confer to|gether, wherefore pray &s;end me your advi&s;e for my Government herein. Here is the</HI> Perrigreen <HI>a fit &s;hip if men may be got; at</HI> Ge|noa <HI>is the</HI> Lewis, M. Ell, <HI>at</HI> Venice <HI>may be others, but the great difficulty will be want of Men: All things together con&s;idered, give me your advi&s;e whether I &s;hall fraight tho&s;e two ships, and up|on what terms (for the State pre&s;cribes not any) and that you may the better under&s;tand their meaning, whereby you might give me &s;ome in&s;ight thereinto: I herewith &s;end you copy of their Or|der word for word. And &s;o I re&s;t</HI></P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>At your Command. <HI>Charls Longland.</HI></SIGNED>
<DATELINE><HI>Legorn,</HI> <DATE>Octo. 22. 1652.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="letter">
<PB N="59" REF="32">
<HEAD>Mr. <HI>Longlands 9</HI> Letter.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">By which all men may &s;ee what a horrid Lye Capt. <HI>Appleton</HI> puts out in Print again&s;t him, &s;aying, that he &s;hould triumph in his Impri&s;onment.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Capt. Badiley,</SALUTE>
<SALUTE>SIR;</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>I Am now come to An&s;wer yours of the 17 and 19 cur|rant: The Great Duke hath writ downe Newes hither to the Colonel, that 22 Engli&s;h or Dutch &s;hips have been &s;een on the Coa&s;t of <HI>Spaine,</HI> I believe about the end of the next Month we may expect our &s;hips if their re&s;olutions hold. The Letter you &s;ent for the Great Duke I &s;ent for|ward, and herewith return you his An&s;wer: About the de|mands you make of the Great Duke for your free Egre&s;&s;e and Regre&s;&s;e, I thought it more &s;ecure to write for it, that I might have it under his hand, then to take an An&s;wer by word of mouth, &s;o I herewith &s;end you Signior <HI>Pandolfini</HI> his Secretary of State's Letter to me in An&s;wer. For what you &s;ay about the Dukes impri&s;onment of Capt. <HI>Appleton,</HI> unheard, all the Princes in the world are on the &s;ame trade, and &s;teere their cour&s;e after one manner. What doe you think had become of the five Members of Parliament, if the late King had found them; be&s;ides his impri&s;onment, not a man could be &s;uffer'd to &s;peak with him, tho&s;e few lines he wrote were all tran&s;lated at Court, before they came to our hands. You know very well how unlimited a thing an ab&s;olute Prince is, wherefore in this Countrey we mu&s;t have patience. I told the Great Duke the Common-wealth &s;uffer'd in their reputation by Capt. <HI>Appleton's</HI> impri&s;on|ment, but he an&s;wer'd he would give them good &s;atisfacti|on therein. I perceive Capt. <HI>Roope</HI> will know nothing of Capt. <HI>Bowman</HI> to Command the <HI>Mary,</HI> the <HI>Bonaventure</HI> ex|treamly
<PB N="60" REF="33">wants a good Commander, for the Ma&s;ter is not right, never from the &s;hore. I herewith &s;end you Capt. <HI>Cox</HI> Letter, wherein you may &s;ee what there pa&s;&s;es, I have given him credit on M. <HI>Baker</HI> for what his occa&s;ions require to re|pair his Ship. C. <HI>Peacocke</HI> is to bring you out twenty &s;ail of Ships to be under your Command: The inclo&s;ed from <HI>Eng:</HI> will acquaint you with what pa&s;&s;es there; you need not doubt in the lea&s;t of your free coming hither, this is my o|pinion, and you will &s;ee as much by the Secretaries Letter. I re&s;t,</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your Servant. Charls Longland.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE><HI>Lego.</HI> <DATE>Dec. 24. 1652.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>Mr. Longlands <HI>10</HI> Letter.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">Shewing what a gallont opportunity we had, in ca&s;e the Frigots had come from <HI>Naples,</HI> (and not have gone to <HI>Me&s;&s;ina</HI>) unto <HI>Porto Longone,</HI> where the <HI>Parragou</HI> rode all alone in expectation of them.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Capt. Badiley,</SALUTE>
<SALUTE>SIR;</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>I Wrote you ye&s;terday by the return of your Feluca, this is intended by the Pur&s;er of the <HI>Mary Ro&s;e,</HI> with whom I have had &s;ome di&s;cour&s;e about the livering of the &s;hip, wherein can be no difficulty, whil'&s;t they keep the Goods in their owne po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion a&s;hore, &s;o he tels me he will liver her, wherein you may plea&s;e to urge him likewi&s;e. I &s;ent for|ward your Letter to <HI>Genod</HI> by the Lyons Po&s;t, and writ to Mr. <HI>Wright,</HI> to whom the <HI>John</HI> and <HI>Concord</HI> is commended, about &s;paring 30 men and 20 Guns, upon the tearms you
<PB N="61" REF="33">propound; what the i&s;&s;ue will be we mu&s;t attend. Here is not above 6 or 7 Dutch in the Road. I wi&s;h the Frigots were come from <HI>Naples,</HI> and then 'twere a good opportuni|ty to come hither and clear this road; for if the&s;e &s;hips in the Road could be de&s;troyed, or at lea&s;t removed, I hope we &s;hould never again be put into a pin-fold. The Dutch have now &s;hewed us the way, that 'tis lawful to doe any thing in Road or Mould, when we have a power and op|portunity to doe it; for two dayes pa&s;t I laded 50 Che&s;ts of Tinn upon a French &s;hip, for <HI>Smyrna,</HI> upon which I took 2400 <HI>d.</HI> of the Captain at <HI>Cambio,</HI> but the Tinn was worth 1600 <HI>d.</HI> more, the Dutch having intelligence of it, the French man riding to the north of the Road, two &s;hips made &s;aile towards her, and &s;ent 4 arm'd Boats abord her, and took a|way the Tinn: I have &s;ent away a Carrier to the Great Duke, to acquaint him with it, but I fear his An&s;wer wilbe the &s;ame as the Governour gives me, that it mu&s;t goe upon account of the Frigot: At lea&s;t we now clearly &s;ee by this action, that when we have a power we need not be &s;crupu|lous in what place we fall upon the Enemy; and although an unhappy lo&s;&s;e be fallen upon me, yet it may prove ad|vantagious to the generall bu&s;ine&s;&s;e: I &s;hall to morow have an&s;wer from <HI>Florence,</HI> what the Great Duke &s;ayes to the bu|fine&s;&s;e, whereof my next &s;hall advi&s;e you. The&s;e Dutch talk much of their wedding the Kings Quarrel, but Mr. <HI>Web&s;ter</HI> writes me nothing of it. This is what occurres, I re&s;t,</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Legorn,</HI> <DATE>Feb. 8. 1653.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Charls Longland.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>Captain <HI>Roop's 1</HI> Letter, about putting off <HI>Fi&s;her</HI> into the <HI>Mary.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>SIR;</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>MY humble &s;ervice pre&s;ented unto you, &s;ome few days &s;ince I made bold to trouble you with a few lines,
<PB N="62" REF="34">advi&s;ing <HI>Mr. James Bowman's</HI> reply unto your proffers, in which I conceive you are well &s;atisfied, as likewi&s;e am I, &s;o do againe recommend unto you my Mate, <HI>Benjamin Fisher,</HI> reque&s;ting you by the fir&s;t good occa&s;ion, to &s;end him a line or two with your Warrant to take the Com|mand of the <HI>Mary,</HI> that I doe now again confirm, humbly intreating you to favour me with it, <HI>quitta primo,</HI> that &s;o I may &s;ettle him before the &s;hips are required out. Thus hum|bly reque&s;ting you to remember him that is, and whil'&s;t remaining will be,</P>
<CLOSER><SALUTE>SIR,</SALUTE>
<SIGNED><HI>Your humble Servant,</HI> at Command, <HI>Gilbert Roope.</HI></SIGNED>
<DATELINE>Legorn <DATE>the 9 of <HI>Feb.</HI> 1653.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>Capt <HI>Roop's 2</HI> Letter, de&s;iring none but <HI>Ben|jamin Fi&s;her</HI> might Command the <HI>Mary.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Cap. Ri. Badiley;</SALUTE>
<SALUTE>Honoured Sir,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>MY mo&s;t humble &s;ervice pre&s;ented, your courteous lines of the 28 of <HI>January,</HI> I have from the hand of <HI>Mr. Charls Longland</HI> now receiv'd, and cannot but returne you humble thanks for your willing a&s;&s;ent unto my re|que&s;t, whereby you have obliged me to you, &s;o, as that up|on all occa&s;ions I &s;hall not want to manife&s;t the &s;ame by my thankfulne&s;&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> and readine&s;&s;e to ob&s;erve your Com|mands.</P>
<P>And in order to what you advi&s;e, I &s;hall take out my
<PB N="63" REF="34">name of the Commi&s;&s;ion, and put in <HI>Ben: Fi&s;her,</HI> he being one I am confident that will de&s;erve your love. I have con|&s;idered what you are plea&s;ed to write about Mr. <HI>Watts,</HI> in an&s;wer &s;ay, That by no means I can admit of him, nor any other, onely <HI>Ben: Fi&s;her,</HI> for he is the man that I have advis'd my Owners, hath the charge of the Ship: Now as you have been plea&s;ed &s;o freely to favour me in my reque&s;t heretofore, &s;o I humbly be&s;eech you to confirm the &s;ame, and not to put any other Commander in, &s;ave <HI>Ben: Fi&s;her.</HI></P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your humble Servant, Gilb: Roope.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE>Legorn, <DATE><HI>Feb.</HI> 10. 1653.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>Capt. <HI>Cox's</HI> Letter, &s;peaking of the Rea&s;on why he came not from <HI>Naples,</HI> but went to <HI>Me&s;&s;ina.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>SIR,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>WIth the tender of my very humble &s;ervice, I &s;alute you, tru&s;ting in the protection of the Almighty, you are in good health, with all the Commanders that are with you. Sir, I received yours at <HI>Naples,</HI> but the Po&s;t came two dayes after his u&s;uall cour&s;e, and my great trouble and grief in my impri&s;onment, prevented me in writing by the la&s;t conveyance from thence: it was Wedne&s;day late in the night, before I had my liberty, the next day in the evening I &s;et &s;aile, and put to Sea with all our Fleet. Sir, I endea|voured to performe according to your de&s;ire, but winds and weather proving &s;o bad, which forc't me to <HI>Me&s;&s;ina,</HI> where I left the <HI>Harry Bonaventure.</HI> I &s;topt not at <HI>Me&s;&s;ina,</HI> but went through about five in the afternoon, by the &s;outh Lantern: about ten at night we met with one of the <HI>Dutch</HI> Fleet, whom we took; the next day we engaged the Fleet in hopes to have given a good account of them, but provi|dence hath otherwi&s;e ordered it. I have had much &s;poyle
<PB N="64" REF="35">among my men, my &s;hip much torn; when God &s;ends me well to meet, I &s;hall give a full relation of our pa&s;&s;ages; in the mean time I &s;hall refer you to Mr. <HI>Lightfoot,</HI> who is in &s;ome mea&s;ure &s;en&s;ible of our di&s;pute. Sir, if you are not plea&s;ed that I &s;hall not come in to you, let me hear by the fir&s;t, and withall to &s;end me a &s;upply of Powder and Shot proportionable, for that I much want, I could not have a &s;upply at <HI>Me&s;&s;ina.</HI> I humbly take leave and re&s;t,</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your humble Servant to Command, Owen Cox.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE>From abord the <HI>Phoenix</HI> at Sea, <DATE><HI>Feb.</HI> 17. 1652.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>Here followeth the Copy of my Letter to Capt. <HI>Appleton,</HI> three dayes before our Ingagement.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Capt. Appleton;</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>I Am heartily glad the Great Duke is &s;o far pacified to you, as that he is willing you &s;hould continue your Command until this di&s;pute be over, &amp; then, God &s;paring me life (at a con&s;ultation of Friends) I &s;hall do for you what I can, and I hope we &s;hall reach your de&s;ires; I would have all the &s;hips to be of your Squadron for the pre|&s;ent, except the <HI>Bonaventure,</HI> that I de&s;ire may be of mine. I came from <HI>Porto Ferraro</HI> la&s;t night, with the&s;e eight &s;hips and a Fire-&s;hip (ble&s;&s;ed be God) all in a good equipage, having got the Fly-boats men and Guns, and all our men &s;eem to be gallantly re&s;olved.</P>
<P>I &s;uppo&s;e we may be almo&s;t a third part of the way over, and ere this come to hand we may be in &s;ight, pray de&s;ire Mr. <HI>Longlands</HI> company on bord, and con&s;ult with the Commanders what is be&s;t to be done, whether it were not be&s;t to ward your &s;hips without the Mould head, or not;
<PB N="65" REF="35">I think it were be&s;t this fine weather; and if I &s;ee the &s;hips plying out to meet me, I intend to keep plying to wind|ward of them, untill I &s;ee you under &s;aile, plying after us, and then when it's a gale I &s;hall endeavour to break through them, that &s;o I may come and joyne with you.</P>
<P>If the wind be of &s;hore, and you &s;ee them coming out to me, pray ha&s;ten as for life, to follow with all the &s;aile you can make, that we may not be too much oppre&s;t before you come, for other matters I mu&s;t leave it to you that are upon the place; I doubt the onely want of our &s;hips will be Powder and round Shot, pray de&s;ire Mr. <HI>Longland</HI> (at lea&s;t) to put &s;ome on bord of you for us. I &s;uppo&s;e your &s;elfe and the Vice-Admirall of the Dutch will try a pluck for it; although he be the great Boar, yet he is but a Boar, and (who knowes) being the Game of this Countrey, he may be hunted as well as others: And not to enlarge, I remaine</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Yours, <HI>Ri: Badiley.</HI></SIGNED>
<DATELINE>On bord the <HI>Parragon,</HI> <DATE>Tue&s;day, Mar. 1. at 6 mor:</DATE> of <HI>Pompalonia,</HI> the 1 Letter.</DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>Here followeth Mr. <HI>Longland's 11</HI> Letter; telling me the Great Duke would not &s;uf|fer the Dutch to doe any acts of Hostility in his Road.</HEAD>
<OPENER><DATELINE>Legorn, <DATE>the <HI>12</HI> of March, <HI>1652.</HI></DATE></DATELINE>
<SALUTE>Capt. Badiley, SIR,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>LA&s;t night about Sun-&s;etting, came to my hands by your Feluca, your Letter, dated 4 leagues to the northward of <HI>Porto Ferraro;</HI> in an&s;wer, all things &s;hall be punctu|ally
<PB N="66" REF="36">effected as you Order.</P>
<P>I carried Capt. <HI>Seaman</HI> and Capt. <HI>Wood</HI> twice to the Se|cretary, as &s;ent by the re&s;t of the Commanders, to acquaint him, that if the &s;tormy weather continued, 'twas not po&s;&s;i|ble for them to goe out, nor you to come in: As al&s;o if the Dutch lay at the Mould head, their &s;hips could not get out; and as it was his Highne&s;&s;e plea&s;ure to Command them hence, &s;o it concern'd him in honour to open the door or pa&s;&s;age to let them out. La&s;t night the Secretary &s;hewed us the Great Dukes Letter to you, in an&s;wer to yours from <HI>Porto Ferraro,</HI> that he gave us liberty to the 18 of this month to get out, and longer then, if wind and weather hindred: He takes very well what you propound|ed concerning the freedome of his Port, and ha's been all this day (as he &s;aith) endeavouring to get <HI>Van Gallen</HI> to under-write the &s;ame likewi&s;e; but whil'&s;t they were in Treaty, Newes came to <HI>Van Gallen</HI> that you were on the way from <HI>Porto Ferraro,</HI> &s;o nothing was effected; the Secre|tary tels me within this hour he will &s;end again to him, and I hold it not convenient that the &s;hips &s;tir out of the Mould, til an an&s;wer come, except the Dutch weigh An|chor, and goe out to you, in &s;uch ca&s;e they mu&s;t all out of the Mould, come what will. The Secretary tels me they have three or four Captaines, and fifty or &s;ixty Dutch Mar|riners in hold, who &s;hall not be &s;et at liberty except <HI>Van Gallen</HI> &s;ub&s;cribes the writing to u&s;e no ho&s;tility in the road. Our men and Commanders are all chearfull and ready to u&s;e their utmo&s;t indeavours, upon which I hope the Lord will give his ble&s;&s;ing. Capt. <HI>Appleton</HI> is permitted by the Great Duke to &s;tay here during this Engagement: I hope the two Felucas are arrived with Powder, Shot, and Mo|ney, I gave them order to look out for you at Sea; let me know if you want any thing, it &s;hall be &s;ent you. A few hours will re&s;olve us what the Enemies intents are. God I hope will appear for our Nation, in his wonted mercy, to who&s;e protection I commit you, and re&s;t,</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><DATE><HI>Wedne&s;day</HI> morn. at 9 a clock <HI>Mar.</HI> 2.</DATE> abord the <HI>Leopard.</HI></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Your &s;ervant, <HI>Charls Longland.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="letter">
<PB N="67" REF="36">
<HEAD>In the next place here followeth the &s;ubstance of my Letter (to the best of my remem|brance) unto Capt. <HI>Appleton</HI> of the third of <HI>March,</HI> at four a Clock in the morning; but as for the direct Copy, either I had not time to take it, or el&s;e it is mi&s;carried.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Capt. Appleton,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>I Perceive the Dutch have no mind to come out to me, but remaine in the Road, with hope to ruine you at your coming forth; and the Squadron with you being &s;omewhat the le&s;&s;e, what ever I &s;uffer my &s;elfe, I would not have it hazarded: wherefore be very cautious what you doe as to coming forth, if you have not an opportu|nity in the night. I would have you remaine at the Mould head while I come neer that place to receive you, unle&s;&s;e you &s;ee me engag'd, and in that ca&s;e pray take Mr. <HI>Long|lands</HI> opinion what to doe, who is a di&s;creet Gentleman, and one that will not onely give you the be&s;t Coun&s;el he can, but I am confident is as loath to hazard you, as my &s;elfe.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Yours, <HI>Ri: Badiley.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>Here followeth his An&s;wer to my Letter, dated at <HI>4</HI> a clock that Afternoone.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Capt. Ri. Badiley,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>I Received yours, bearing date 4 a clock this pre&s;ent mor|ning, and do acknowledge your great care in advancing the publick, and of not hazarding this Squadron. The Agent being on bord, I &s;ent for all the Commanders, and
<PB N="68" REF="37">&s;hewed them not only your Letter, but the re&s;ults of your Councel of War, which were all with a unanimous con|&s;ent, very well approved of; together with your intenti|ons for managing the Fight, Squadron to Squadron, I &s;hall to my utmo&s;t endeavour to execute what you plea&s;e to order; we being at pre&s;ent in a very good po&s;ture, all men exceeding willing. If you can draw neer in the night, within the <HI>Malora,</HI> the wind be|ing off the &s;hore, we &s;hall by God his a&s;&s;i&s;tance, and your approbation, break through the Enemy, which by a gene|ral con&s;ent is referred to you. Our eyes are towards him, who by the breath of his No&s;trils can make the&s;e Vaunters flye before us, for which I continually pray, in the meane am</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Leopard, Lego.</HI> Mould, <DATE><HI>Mar.</HI> 3. 1653. at 4 in the afternoon.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Henry Appleton.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>Ma&s;ter <HI>Longland</HI>'s 12 Letter, being his last before our Engagement; wherein it appeares that we were dealt withall, as tho&s;e that were betrayed.</HEAD>
<OPENER><DATELINE><HI>Legorn</HI>-Mould, abord the <HI>Leopard,</HI> <DATE>March 13. 1653. at 22 houres.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SALUTE>Capt. Badiley,</SALUTE>
<SALUTE>Sir;</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P><HI>I Now An&s;wer yours dated this morning at</HI> 4 <HI>a clocke, and I mu&s;t write you that the Dutch <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">ri&s;on are relea&s;t and &s;ent abord; the bu&s;ine&s;&s;e betwixt them and the Duke &s;eems to be ad|ju&s;ted, which mu&s;t turne to our prejudice: the Collonel told me his opinion was, as &s;oone as our &s;hips had their &s;ternes to the Mould, the Dutch would a&s;&s;ault them; he likewi&s;e ask'd me if you in|tended
<PB N="69" REF="37">to a&s;&s;ault them in the Road; the&s;e are &s;ymtomes that the Road is theirs that win it, as I cannot get &s;o much from them in plaine tearms, neither will I per&s;wade you to begin any ho&s;tility in the Road, for I believe you will not want provocation, or at lea&s;t the &s;hips now here before you come in, yet I would not wi&s;h you to de|&s;i&s;t from any notable advantage, upon nicities, when no a&s;&s;urance or certainty can be got from any of the&s;e great Officers. The &s;hips are all ready to undertake any thing that is within the compa&s;&s;e of po&s;&s;ibility, but except part of the Dutch goe out to you, or at lea&s;t your Fleet come in to our &s;uccour, it is impo&s;&s;ible for the&s;e &s;hips to get away without great lo&s;&s;e and hazard. The Great Dukes Letter unto you was &s;ent to</HI> Porto Ferraro, <HI>and is thence come back to my hands, which I would have &s;ent you tran&s;lated, if time would permit, but I doubt not but it will be well done, by &s;ome with you. I mu&s;t not omit to tell you, that the Collonel this day told me, if our &s;hips were wor&s;ted in this incounter, and came back thither for a Port, the Frigot mu&s;t then be re&s;tored. The great de&s;igne of the Flemmings is to &s;poyle them &s;hips in the Mould, which I believe is the cau&s;e they will not &s;tir to come out to you.</HI></P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your Servant, <HI>Charls Longland.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="orders">
<HEAD>Here followeth the Copies of the Orders and Rules agreed upon, for every mans better Government in the time of Engagement.</HEAD>
<DIV2 TYPE="order">
<P>UPon the Que&s;tion, whether we &s;hall &s;tand into <HI>Legorn</HI>-Road with the wind we&s;terly, &s;o that we judge our Ship cannot come out of the Mould; it was re&s;olved in the negative.</P>
<P>But rather, that we &s;hall keep the wind off our Enemy, and not wilfully ingage them without hope of help from our other Squadron.</P>
<PB N="70" REF="38">
<P>Upon the Que&s;tion, in ca&s;e the wind be Ea&s;terly, when we come near <HI>Legorn</HI>-Road, whether it were not be&s;t tack, and &s;tand off to the &s;outhward a little while, thereby to en|deavour the drawing or touling off our Enemy out, that our di&s;pute might be where we may have Sea-roome e|nough, it's re&s;olved in the affirmative.</P>
<P>Upon the Que&s;tion, what &s;hall be done in ca&s;e the Ene|my bord any Ship of this or the other Squadron, it's re&s;ol|ved that tho&s;e of the &s;ame Squadron (with all &s;peed) &s;hall bord that Enemy on the other &s;ide, as mo&s;t conveniently it may be done.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>On bord the Parragon, <DATE>March 1. 1653.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Ri. Badiley.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Owen Cox.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>George Hugham.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>William &V;p&s;hot.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>John Turtle.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Jonat: Reeves.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Will: Ell.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>John Godolphin.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="order">
<HEAD>It followed the <HI>3</HI> of March.</HEAD>
<P><HI>&V;pon the Que&s;tion, whether we were not be&s;t keep our &s;hips loo&s;e when we draw neer the Enemy in</HI> Legorn-<HI>Road, let the wind be where it will, it's re&s;olved in the affirmative.</HI></P>
<P><HI>&V;pon the Que&s;tion, what the &s;hips of any Squadron &s;hall doe, in ca&s;e the Commander in chiefe of that Squadron, be removed by any di&s;a&s;ter; it's re&s;olved, that in &s;uch ca&s;e they &s;hall keep neere the Admirall by night or day to receive his Commands, if po&s;&s;ible it can be done.</HI></P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><LIST>
<ITEM>Ri: Badiley.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Wil: Ell.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Jo: Godolphin.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Jo: Turtle.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Pet: Whiting.</ITEM>
</LIST></SIGNED>
<POSTSCRIPT>
<P>The Frigots were about a League within us, to watch the motion of the Enemy, the Commanders could not be with us, but every one of them, with others, had Copies &s;ent them of the&s;e Re&s;olves, that no man might plead excu&s;e herafter.</P>
</POSTSCRIPT></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="letter">
<PB N="71" REF="38">
<HEAD>Mr. Longlands <HI>13</HI> Letter.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">Shewing what was the i&s;&s;ue of that Tragedy near <HI>Legorn</HI> the <HI>4</HI> of <HI>March</HI> la&s;t.</HEAD>
<OPENER><DATELINE>Legorn, <DATE>Apr: 25. 1653.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SALUTE>Capt. Badiley,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P><HI>BY</HI> Peter Whyting <HI>I received yours, dated the</HI> 16 <HI>of</HI> March, <HI>which it &s;eemes was a Copy of what you writ me by Captaine</HI> Hewes, <HI>the Originall I never heard further of, nor the bearer: I hope this may meet you well arriv'd at home, and bid you welcome thither. I need not write you the various cen&s;ures here upon your going away. All the</HI> 4 <HI>&s;hips were lo&s;t before you came up; of this you will heare at home, as al&s;o the full relation of the unhappy lo&s;&s;e of our &s;hips. For my part I was no Spectator, for when I &s;aw them &s;o &s;uddenly goe out of the Mould, upon the back of the Enemy (con|trary to their own deliberate re&s;ult in a Councell of War that morn|ing not to &s;tir thence till the Enemy had engaged you) I went into my Chamber, where I kept my &s;elfe, fearing that &s;ucce&s;&s;e which befell them: By noon the Tragedy was ended, the</HI> Leopard <HI>being the la&s;t &s;hip, who had &s;trength enough to clear her &s;elfe, if &s;he had either the courage or di&s;cretion to make u&s;e of it: The Dutch them&s;elves report, if &s;he had but ask'd for tho&s;e &s;hips that lay abord her, &s;he might have had them. Mr.</HI> Spradlerow <HI>the Mini&s;ter (now at my hou&s;e) confe&s;&s;eth that he and others look'd in at their Ports, but &s;aw not a man on their Gun-decke, but &s;uch was their fate, that they &s;till delayed untill it was too late. I re&s;t,</HI></P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>At your Command. <HI>Charls Longland.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>Here followeth Mr. <HI>Longland's 14</HI> Letter; complaining very ju&s;tly of Cap. <HI>Seaman</HI>'s Ingratitude, and of the great abu&s;e he re|ceived from him. <HI>Vale.</HI></HEAD>
<PB N="72" REF="39">
<OPENER><DATELINE>Legorn, <DATE>May 23. 1653.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SALUTE>Capt. Badiley,</SALUTE>
<SALUTE>SIR;</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P><HI>AT reque&s;t of Capt.</HI> Appleton, Seaman, <HI>and</HI> Mar&s;h, <HI>I entred into Bond to the Dutch Vice-Admirall for</HI> 12000 <HI>Dollars, that in two moneths they &s;hould render them&s;elves Pri&s;oners in Holland, the Dutch having lo&s;t their prattick (by taking a Po|latto which brought &s;ome Wools from</HI> Tunnis) <HI>our Captaines were nece&s;&s;itated to make Purgo in the</HI> Lazareta, <HI>when they came thither: Two dayes &s;ince I went to &s;ee them, and bid them wel|come a&s;hore, but I found &s;uch an encounter from</HI> Seaman, <HI>that in all my life-time I never was halfe &s;o much abu&s;ed, he call'd me all the ba&s;e &s;candalous names he could imagine, took up great &s;tones and flung at me to have brain'd me, and I am confident if he could have come at me had done me &s;ome notable mi&s;chiefe, if not to the lo&s;&s;e of my life. If the State take not &s;ome order to tame &s;uch men, it will not be in my power to doe them any &s;ervice, nor fit to be a Commi&s;&s;ioned &s;ervant of theirs, when I &s;hall be &s;ubject to the abu&s;e of &s;uch a &s;candalous fellow, who&s;e extream Malignancy and backwardne&s;&s;e, ha's been the ruine of all our &s;hips here; and now he ha's ba&s;ely lo&s;t his &s;hip, he vents his venome to the full; there were above forty Witne&s;&s;es of this abu&s;e. Neither did he leave you and Capt.</HI> Cox <HI>un-abus'd, but toold me before all men, that Co|wardly ba&s;e fellow</HI> Badiley, <HI>and that ba&s;e Rogue</HI> Cox, <HI>were like|wi&s;e Confederates. In fine, if he could have nam'd any man el&s;e that bore any affection to the State, or &s;erved them with faithful|ne&s;&s;e, they had likewi&s;e come under his abu&s;e. I am certaine I have not injured him in the lea&s;t, but contrarily I am engaged for him a great &s;um of money. If the State doe not make me &s;ome re|paration upon this man for the injury he has done me herein (and likewi&s;e to let him know it) I &s;hall be &s;ubject to all abu&s;es from &s;uch fellowes, which rather then I wilbe, I will returne the States Commi&s;&s;ion; and &s;o much I pray let them know from</HI></P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your Servant. Charls Longland.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="affidavits">
<PB N="73" REF="39">
<HEAD>Certaine <HI>Affidavits,</HI> and <HI>Certificates,</HI> Shewing the Fallaciou&s;ne&s;&s;e of that <HI>Pamphlet,</HI> called <HI>The Remon&s;trance of the</HI> FIGHT <HI>neer</HI> Legorn, <HI>the</HI> 4 <HI>of</HI> March <HI>last,</HI> 1652.</HEAD>
<DIV2 N="1" TYPE="affidavit">
<HEAD>The fir&s;t Affidavit.</HEAD>
<P>THe&s;e are to certifie whom&s;oever it doth concerne, That being Lievtenant in the States &s;hip <HI>Parragon,</HI> about midnight, before the 4 of <HI>March</HI> la&s;t, our Ad|miral &s;eeing a fre&s;h gale of wind off the &s;hore, cals me to him, when as we &s;eem'd to be neer the Lanthorne, and with great earne&s;tne&s;&s;e bids me ha&s;ten into <HI>Legorn</HI>-Mould with the Feluca, and tel Capt. <HI>Appleton</HI> that he &s;hould cal the re&s;t of the Captaines immediately, and there acquaint them, that he did effectually recommend it to their con&s;ideration, to come away to him: I went accordingly, and told him my me&s;&s;age, but notwith&s;tanding &s;ome of the Captaines came together, Capt. <HI>Fi&s;her</HI> could not be made ri&s;e to come thither in an houre after, and when they did come to|gether, they were &s;o long in concluding what to doe, &s;ome|times they would, and &s;ometimes they would not, Capt. <HI>Seaman</HI> lying on Capt. <HI>Appletons</HI> Couch like a Lordaine mo&s;t part of the time. In conclu&s;ion, when it was nois'd on the <HI>Leopards</HI> upper deck that they would not goe out til morning, I heard one <HI>Wrightington</HI> a Ma&s;ters Mate, or Pylot of the &s;hip, &s;ay the&s;e words in a pa&s;&s;ion, as if he would tear his haire, <HI>The&s;e cur&s;ed men</HI> (meaning the Commanders) <HI>are &s;o bewitched or be&s;otted to this Mould, that they care not for going hence, why cannot we goe having &s;uch a gallant gale of wind, now that the Admirall hath &s;ent for us.</HI></P>
<P>Returning to our &s;hip the <HI>Parragon,</HI> at break of day, find|ing
<PB N="74" REF="40">our &s;elves to be &s;omewhat further off then we made account, I am able to te&s;tifie, all &s;aile was made to ply in|to <HI>Legorn</HI>-Road, as po&s;&s;ible could be, until about an houre after, that the Dutch Fleet was come out neer <HI>Mount Ne|gro,</HI> and then their head-mo&s;t &s;hips bearing off directly up|on us, our Main-&s;aile was hail'd up for halfe an houre, as was all the rea&s;on in the world, that we might have no|thing hinder us from plying all our Guns between Decks, that our men might be ready to &s;tand by our great Ord|nance; but as &s;oone as ever our Ships came out of the Mould, all the &s;aile the wind would give leave, was kept abroad, and the Admiral plyed in with all diligence, and to my knowledge it was fir&s;t declared by him, his re&s;oluti|on was to bord the Dutch Admiral, but coming &s;o neer her as that we could di&s;charge a Volley of &s;mal &s;hot to a|ny purpo&s;e, we did it, together with a broad &s;ide of great Ordnance; and &s;eeing none of our Frigots going on bord to the relief of the <HI>Leopard,</HI> our Captaine &s;eeing &s;o many of the Fleet lo&s;t, judging it the mo&s;t nece&s;&s;arie&s;t &s;ervice to re|liefe her, we &s;tood towards that &s;hip, but being the wind was very fre&s;h, it was not held fit we &s;hould run &s;temlings with all our &s;ailes (except the Main-&s;aile, and top-gal|lant &s;ailes, for ends before denoted) however after we had powred a broad &s;ide into the <HI>Julius Coe&s;ar,</HI> and pa&s;t within two or three &s;hips lengths of her &s;terne, great indeavours were u&s;ed to make our &s;hip <HI>Parragon</HI> bear up, that we might come to the other tack, that &s;o we might goe on bord with the more ea&s;e; but it plea&s;ed God the wind dullard all on the &s;udden, &s;o that we could not make our &s;hip work, nor bear up in any time, if all our lives had laine on't, and then bringing our &s;hip to againe, before we could make her &s;tay, we were &s;hot &s;o far, that before po&s;&s;ible we could get a|bord the <HI>Leopard,</HI> &s;he was driven &s;o neer the &s;and of the <HI>Ma|lora,</HI> that it was my opinion humbly given in to the Admi|ral among other Officers, in ca&s;e we &s;hould have further in|deavoured to have gone on bord, it would be almo&s;t im|po&s;&s;ible ever to di&s;intangle our &s;elves from them againe, un|til we had been upon the afore-mentioned &s;and, the wind
<PB N="75" REF="40">being at E. S. E. mo&s;t commonly: And to my knowledge, when the Captaine &s;aw that the &s;hip would not work, he order'd &s;ome of the nimble &s;hips to be cal'd unto to doe that &s;ervice, and if the <HI>Mary</HI> or the <HI>Lewis</HI> had beene neer us, they had been cal'd to as wel as the <HI>Mary Ro&s;e.</HI> And I am confidently a&s;&s;ured, that &s;uch as did lea&s;t in our Fleet, did as much &s;ervice again&s;t the Enemy, to de&s;troy &s;uch as borded the <HI>Leopard,</HI> as did either Capt. <HI>Ell,</HI> or Capt. <HI>Fi|&s;her;</HI> and whatever the Captaines of the&s;e &s;hips &s;ay now we are come home, I am &s;ure in our homeward bound way it was the vote and expre&s;&s;ion of them, and all other Captaines in the Fleet, that if we had engag'd any further in the bu&s;ine&s;&s;e of <HI>Legorn,</HI> all had been lo&s;t. </P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Dated</HI> <DATE>this 13 <HI>of Sept.</HI> 1653.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><HI>Tho: Hughes,</HI> Lievt.</SIGNED>
<POSTSCRIPT>
<P>I doe al&s;o atte&s;t over and above what is in&s;erted in the foregoing lines, that being at <HI>Legorn</HI> about the latter end of <HI>November</HI> la&s;t, I was upon the <HI>Bonaventures</HI> Fore-ca&s;tle, when as Capt. <HI>Appleton</HI> did &s;end men on &s;hore to the Mould head to take a Flemming that had e&s;cap't thither, out of the Centinels hou&s;e, and the Souldier refu&s;ing to deliver him, with his &s;word drawne, Capt. <HI>Appleton</HI> went him&s;elfe a&s;hore, and forc't the Pri&s;oner to come thence, and had car|ried him back on bord his &s;hip, but that more Souldiers came downe with their Muskets Cock'd, and forc'd the Marriners to let him goe, and &s;o he made his e&s;cape.</P>
<P>I doe al&s;o Atte&s;t, That being on bord the <HI>Parragon</HI> in <HI>Por|to Longone,</HI> about the latter end of <HI>Jan:</HI> la&s;t, Capt. <HI>Appleton</HI> having received an Order from the Councel of State, to com for <HI>England,</HI> taking his leave of me, &s;aid, <HI>They have &s;ent for me home to que&s;tion my life,</HI> to which I replyed, <HI>You may hear|tily thanke God that your life was not taken from you when you tooke the Dutch man out of the Centinels hou&s;e.</HI></P>
<P>And more-over the 4 of <HI>March</HI> la&s;t, being <HI>all</HI> the time on the <HI>Parragons</HI> Deck, that we were &s;o near the <HI>Leopard,</HI> as is denoted by what is expre&s;t before, I could never di&s;cern that any one man appear'd upon the <HI>Leopards</HI> Deck, to &s;ignifie
<PB N="76" REF="41">unto us whether &s;he were in our po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion, or in the Ene|mies. </P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Dated as above,</HI>
<DATE>the 12 <HI>of</HI> September, 1653.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Tho: Hughes. Lievt.</SIGNED>
<POSTSCRIPT>
<P><HI>Sworne,</HI> <DATE>September 12. 1653.</DATE></P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>John Page.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</POSTSCRIPT></CLOSER>
</POSTSCRIPT></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="2" TYPE="affidavit">
<HEAD>The &s;econd Affidavit.</HEAD>
<P>THe&s;e are to certifie whom it may concerne, That upon the fonrth of <HI>March</HI> la&s;t, being in the Fleet, a Ma&s;ters Mate in the &s;hip <HI>Mary Ro&s;e,</HI> all the night I ob&s;erved we had a fine fre&s;h gale of wind off the &s;hore, with brave weather that our &s;hips might have come out of the Mould if they would, and in the morning all a|long I could not di&s;cern to the contrary, but that our Ad|miral and our &s;elves made all the way that could to &s;uc|cour tho&s;e that came out of the Mould; and being got neer the <HI>Leopard,</HI> I am confident as much meanes was u&s;ed by the Admiral, and the backwarde&s;t of the re&s;t to de&s;troy tho&s;e &s;hips on bord the <HI>Leopard,</HI> and to bring her off, as was u|&s;ed by the Commander of the <HI>Lewis,</HI> and <HI>Mary,</HI> I may truly &s;ay notwith&s;tanding their vapouring, much more was u&s;ed by the Admiral, who having a heavy foule &s;hip, could not work that time, the wind being &s;o fickle, &s;ometimes much, &s;ometimes little, whereas they having clean nimble &s;hips, might have gone on bord, to the <HI>Leopards</HI> reliefe, if they would: Al&s;o whil'&s;t we were neer the <HI>Leopard</HI> with our &s;hips, whereas it is &s;aid five &s;hips of the Enemy gaul'd the <HI>Leopard</HI> to the Lee-ward, it is an abominable untruth, all of them (except their Admiral) being to the North|ward of the <HI>Samp&s;on,</HI> that lay then a burning, &s;o that their &s;hot could hardly reach the <HI>Leopard,</HI> and as far as I could di&s;cern, did not &s;hoot at her, for we w^t^h our &s;hips pa&s;t &s;everal broad &s;ides upon tho&s;e &s;hips that were on bord the <HI>Leopard,</HI> within Pi&s;tol &s;hot of them, and when the Dutch Adm: was to the South ward of the <HI>Leopard,</HI> our Admiral endeavoured to lay her abord, as far as I could di&s;cern, and &s;he bore a|way
<PB N="77" REF="41">from her afore the wind, into &s;hoal water, to the N. wards, at la&s;t the <HI>Leopard</HI> was driven &s;o neer the &s;and of the <HI>Malora,</HI> with the wind at E. S. S. that no prudent men would have &s;tayed longer in hopes to have brought her off, then we did, which if &s;he had let goe an Anchor in time, and &s;topt their own &s;hip, as their head would have come to windward, the two Enemies &s;hips that were abord her, would have back'd off with their own fails, with the help of the <HI>Leopards</HI> men upon their owne Deck, to clear the Ropes, for mo&s;t part of the time, all the Enemies &s;hips were a great di&s;tance from her to the N. wards, for truth of the afore&s;aid premi&s;es I make Oath.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>James Thomas.</SIGNED>
<POSTSCRIPT>
<P><HI>James Thomas</HI> maketh Oath, that the Contents of the a|fore&s;aid Certificate are in &s;ub&s;tance true.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Sworne,</HI> <DATE>Septemb. 9. 1652.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>John Page.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</POSTSCRIPT></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="3" TYPE="affidavit">
<HEAD>The third Affidavit.</HEAD>
<P>I <HI>William Poole,</HI> being Lievtenant of the &s;hip within men|tioned in the above-&s;aid Certificate, doe te&s;tifie that the Contents hereof are true in &s;ub&s;tance.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>William Poole.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE><HI>Sworne,</HI> <DATE>Sept. 22. 1653.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="4" TYPE="affidavit">
<HEAD>The fourth Affidavit.</HEAD>
<P>THe&s;e are to certifie whom it doth concerne, That being Lievtenant on the &s;hip <HI>Tho: Bonaventure,</HI> near <HI>Legorn,</HI> upon the 3 of <HI>March</HI> la&s;t, we were near the afore-mentio|ned place, lying Leeward mo&s;t part of the day, and after ten a Clock the night following, we had fine fre&s;h gales of wind, that la&s;ted until morning, &s;o that I believe the &s;hips
<PB N="78" REF="42">might have come out of the Mould, if they would, and the next day, although our Admiral made a bord or two, to get clear of the <HI>Malora,</HI> and hal'd up his Maine-&s;aile for half an houre, to have his Guns clear when &s;ome of the Dutch Fleet bore away directly upon him, before the Engli&s;h &s;hips come out of the Mould; yet after they came forth, I never per|ceived to the contrary, but that the Engli&s;h Admiral ha&s;te|ned to meet them with all the &s;aile he could po&s;&s;ibly make, ned being come neer them the wind was very fickle, &s;ome|times much, and &s;ometimes le&s;&s;e, &s;o that I verily believe tho&s;e on bord the <HI>Parragon</HI> could not work her, being a heavy foule &s;hip, as they de&s;ired to doe: And further, that I am very confident, that there was never a &s;hip in the Fleet but did as much or more execution on the Enemy, then did the <HI>Lewis,</HI> or the <HI>Mary,</HI> after the latter broke through the Enemy to come to our Fleet: And (all things con&s;ide|red) I could &s;ee no rea&s;on why we &s;hould have &s;tayed longer neer <HI>Legorn</HI> then we did, in hopes to have relieved the <HI>Leopard. Dated neer</HI> London, <HI>Sept.</HI> 13. 1653.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Sam: Dunn.</SIGNED>
<POSTSCRIPT>
<P><HI>Sworne,</HI> <DATE>Sept. 13. 1653.</DATE></P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>John Page.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</POSTSCRIPT></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="5" TYPE="affidavit">
<HEAD>The fifth Affidavit.</HEAD>
<P><HI>GEorge Hewes,</HI> aged thirty-&s;ix years, or thereabouts, ma|keth Oath, That he this Deponent being at <HI>Legorn</HI> a|bout the middle of <HI>January la&s;t</HI> (and having not then re|ceived the Stater Commi&s;&s;ion) but this Deponent being taken into the States Service upon the third of <HI>March</HI> la&s;t, being neer <HI>Legorn,</HI> having the Command of the &s;hip <HI>Thomas Bonaventure,</HI> doth &s;ay, that all the next night following af|ter ten of the Clock, they had a fine fre&s;h gale of wind off &s;hore, &s;o that the &s;hips in the Mould might have come out if they would; and the next day although our Admiral made a bord or two off to get clear of the <HI>Malora,</HI> and hal'd
<PB N="79" REF="42">up his Main-&s;ail for half an houre, to have his Guns cleer, when as the Dutch Fleet bore away directly with him, before the Engli&s;h &s;hips came out of the Mould; yet after they came forth, this Deponent further &s;aith, That the Engli&s;h Admi|ral ha&s;tned to meet them, with all the &s;aile he could po&s;&s;i|ble make, and being neer, the wind was very fickle, being &s;ometimes much, and &s;ometimes very little, &s;o that he ve|rily believes tho&s;e on bord the <HI>Parragon</HI> could not work her, being a heavy foule &s;hip, as they de&s;ired to doe.</P>
<P>And further, this Deponent is very confident, That there was never a &s;hip in the Fleete but did as much or more execution on the Enemy, then did the <HI>Lewis</HI> or the <HI>Mary,</HI> after &s;he broke through the Enemy to come to the Engli&s;h Fleet. And this Deponent further &s;aith, That (all things con&s;idered) he conceives there was no rea&s;on the Engli&s;h &s;hould &s;tay longer at <HI>Legorn,</HI> then they did, in hopes to relieve the <HI>Leopard.</HI> And moreover this Deponent &s;aith upon his knowledge, that Capt. <HI>William Ell,</HI> being in the Bay of <HI>Logos,</HI> about the latter end of <HI>March</HI> la&s;t (notwith&s;tanding this Deponent advi&s;ing him to the contrary, did ab&s;olutely refu&s;e to obey our Admirals War|rant, or Order which was &s;ent to him for two men to help Man the <HI>Augu&s;tine</HI> Prize, in lieu of two Dutch-men, &amp; after|wards C. <HI>Badiley</HI> bid me bear witnes that the &s;aid C. <HI>Will: Ell</HI> was di&s;charged out of the States &s;ervice, from the time he made &s;uch refu&s;al.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>George Hewes.</SIGNED>
<POSTSCRIPT>
<P><HI>Sworne,</HI> <DATE>Sept. 12. 1653.</DATE></P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>John Page.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</POSTSCRIPT></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="6" TYPE="affidavit">
<HEAD>The &s;ixth Affidavit.</HEAD>
<P>THe&s;e are to certifie whom&s;oever it may concerne, That <HI>Thomas Hewes</HI> late Lievtenant of the States Ship <HI>Par|ragon,</HI> Capt. <HI>Ri: Badiley</HI> Commander, being &s;worne upon the Holy <HI>Evangeli&s;ts,</HI> doth &s;ay, and depo&s;ed on his Oath as followeth, <HI>viz.</HI> That on the third of <HI>March</HI> la&s;t, 1652. be|twixt
<PB N="80" REF="43">the hours of twelve and one that night, he this De|ponent was Commanded by the &s;aid Capt. <HI>Ri: Badiley,</HI> to go in a Feluca to Capt. <HI>Henry Appleton</HI> Commander of the <HI>Leopard</HI> then in the Mould, and to defire him to loo&s;e no opportunity to make to the &s;aid &s;hip the <HI>Parragon,</HI> with the r<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;t o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> tho&s;e &s;hips in company with them, where, in going, this Deponent did certainly &s;ee the Holland Fleet lying at Anchor &s;ome two mile di&s;tant from the &s;aid Mould, riding Ea&s;t, and We&s;t neere&s;t. And moreover, I doe atte&s;t, That on the 4 of <HI>March</HI> la&s;t, in the afternoone, being clear of the <HI>Malora,</HI> by the Admirals Order we &s;hortned &s;aile, and &s;taid until the <HI>Mary</HI> pa&s;t by us, within Pi&s;tol &s;hot, where they were cal'd unto from our &s;hip, and not onely as'kt how it was with them, but directed what cour&s;e they &s;hould &s;teer when it was night. All which premi&s;es this Deponent af|firmes on his Oath to be true, this 30 of <HI>September,</HI> 1653.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Thomas Hewes.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="7" TYPE="affidavit">
<HEAD>The &s;eventh Affidavit.</HEAD>
<P>THe&s;e are to certifie whom&s;oever it doth concerne, That being Ma&s;ter of the States &s;hip <HI>Parragon,</HI> and on the 4 of <HI>March</HI> la&s;t, in the &s;aid Ship near <HI>Legorn,</HI> which place I am very well acquainted with, having u&s;ed it the&s;e twenty years, and upwards. At break of day, find|ing our &s;elves to be &s;omewhat further off then we made account, I am able to te&s;tifie, all &s;aile was made to ply in|to <HI>Legorn</HI>-Road, as po&s;&s;ible could be, until about an houre after, that the Dutch Fleet was come out neer <HI>Mount Ne|gro,</HI> and then their head-mo&s;t &s;hips bearing off directly up|on us, our Main-&s;aile was hail'd up for halfe an houre, as was all the rea&s;on in the world, that we might have no|thing hinder us from plying all our Guns between Decks, that our men might be ready to &s;tand by our great Ord|nance; but as &s;oone as ever our Ships came out of the Mould, all the &s;aile the wind would give leave, was kept
<PB N="81" REF="43">abroad, and the Admiral plyed in with all diligence, and to my knowledge it was fir&s;t declared by him, his re&s;oluti|on was to bord the Dutch Admiral, but coming &s;o neer her as that we could di&s;charge a Volley of &s;mal &s;hot to a|ny purpo&s;e, we did it, together with a broad &s;ide of great Ordnance; and &s;eeing none of our Frigots going on bord to the relief of the <HI>Leopard,</HI> our Captaine &s;eeing &s;o many of the Fleet lo&s;t, judging it the mo&s;t nece&s;&s;arie&s;t &s;ervice to re|liefe her, we &s;tood towards that &s;hip, but being the wind was very fre&s;h, it was not held fit we &s;hould run &s;temlings with all our &s;ailes (except the Main-&s;aile, and top-gal|lant &s;ailes, for ends before denoted) however after we had powred a broad &s;ide into the <HI>Julius Coe&s;ar,</HI> and pa&s;t within two or three &s;hips lengths of her &s;terne, great indeavours were u&s;ed to make our &s;hip <HI>Parragon</HI> bear up, that we might come to the other tack, that &s;o we might goe on bord with the more ea&s;e; but it plea&s;ed God the wind dullard all on the &s;udden, &s;o that we could not make our &s;hip work, nor bear up in any time, if all our lives had laine on't, and then bringing our &s;hip to againe, before we could make her &s;tay, we were &s;hot &s;o far, that before po&s;&s;ible we could get a|bord the <HI>Leopard,</HI> &s;he was driven &s;o neer the &s;and of the <HI>Ma|lora,</HI> that it was my opinion humbly given in to the Admi|nal among other Officers, in ca&s;e we &s;hould have further in|deavoured to have gone on bord, it would be almo&s;t im|po&s;&s;ible ever to di&s;intangle our &s;elves from them againe, un|til we had been upon the afore-mentioned &s;and, the wind being at E. S. E. mo&s;t commonly: And to my knowledge, when the Captaine &s;aw that the &s;hip would not work, he order'd &s;ome of the nimble &s;hips to be cal'd unto to doe that &s;ervice, and if the <HI>Mary</HI> or the <HI>Lewis</HI> had beene neer us, they had been cal'd to as wel as the <HI>Mary Ro&s;e.</HI> And I am confidently a&s;&s;ured, that &s;uch as did lea&s;t in our Fleet, did as much &s;ervice again&s;t the Enemy, to de&s;troy &s;uch as borded the <HI>Leopard,</HI> as did either Capt. <HI>Ell,</HI> or Capt. <HI>Fi|&s;her;</HI> and whatever the Captaines of the&s;e &s;hips &s;ay now we are come home, I am &s;ure in our homeward bound way it was the vote and expre&s;&s;ion of them, and all other
<PB N="82" REF="44">Captaines in the Fleet, that if we had engag'd any further in the bu&s;ine&s;&s;e of <HI>Legorn,</HI> all had been lo&s;t.</P>
<P>I doe al&s;o Atte&s;t, That being on bord the <HI>Parragon</HI> in <HI>Por|to Longone,</HI> about the latter end of <HI>Jan:</HI> la&s;t, Capt. <HI>Appleton</HI> having received an Order from the Councel of State, to com for <HI>England,</HI> he told me, <HI>They have &s;ent for me home to que&s;tion my life.</HI></P>
<P>And more-over the 4 of <HI>March la&s;t,</HI> being <HI>all</HI> the time on the <HI>Parragons</HI> Deck, that we were &s;o near the <HI>Leopard,</HI> as is denoted by what is expre&s;t before, I could never di&s;cern that any one man appear'd upon the <HI>Leopards</HI> Deck, to &s;ignifie unto us whether &s;he were in our po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion, or in the Ene|mies.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Dated</HI> <DATE>the 12 <HI>of</HI> September, 1653.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Anthony Watts.</SIGNED>
<POSTSCRIPT>
<P><HI>Sworne,</HI> <DATE>September 12. 1653.</DATE></P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>John Page.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</POSTSCRIPT></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="8" TYPE="affidavit">
<HEAD>The eighth Affidavit.</HEAD>
<P>THe&s;e are to certifie whom&s;oever it doth concerne, That whereas I was a Ma&s;ters-Mate on the States Ship <HI>Par|ragon,</HI> coming near <HI>Legorn</HI>-Road the 4 of <HI>March</HI> la&s;t, in the morning, to my knowledge as &s;oon as ever it was known on bord our &s;hip, that the Engli&s;h Squadron were coming out of the Mould, and that it was &s;een the Dutch intended to &s;tand back and meet them, (according to the Admirals Order) we ha&s;tened in to them with all the &s;aile we could make, and never &s;horted &s;aile until either the heads of our Top-ma&s;ts were ready to goe by the board, or that we came neer a clo&s;e Engagement with the Dutch Admiral, and then our Admiral in the hearing of &s;everall of us, at &s;undry times expre&s;t him&s;elfe, that he intended to have gon on bord the Admiral of the Dutch; and after we had di&s;|charged a broad &s;ide, and a volley of &s;mal &s;hot on her, lea|ving her by the Lee, his Boat was then &s;ent to require the Commander of the Fire&s;hip to execute his duty in endea|vouring
<PB N="83" REF="44">the de&s;truction of the &s;aid Admiral, which if he had with, Main-&s;aile and all, I believe &s;he had been ruin'd; and when we left the Dutch Admiral, I heard our Com|mander &s;ay he would on bord tho&s;e &s;hips that were entan|gled with the <HI>Leopard,</HI> &s;eeing none el&s;e going on bord that Clu&s;ter of &s;hips to her relief. But we all judged it madne&s;s to run &s;temlings on bord her, when we fir&s;t came to her, b<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">|ing then a fre&s;h gale of wind; but pa&s;&s;ing by the <HI>Julius Cae|&s;ar,</HI> we poured a broad &s;ide in to her, and pa&s;&s;ing by within Musket &s;hot of her, the <HI>Sun,</HI> and the <HI>Leopard,</HI> I could not &s;ee a man &s;tirring fore and aft the <HI>Leopards</HI> Deck, but when our Capt. Commanded to flat our &s;hip, that we might ei|ther lay our Bow&s;prit over the <HI>Leopards</HI> &s;tern, and &s;o lye a|long the <HI>Suns</HI> &s;ide, or el&s;e between the <HI>Sun</HI> and the <HI>Julius Cae|&s;ar,</HI> our &s;hip with the little wind we had all of the &s;ud|den, would not bear up, with all the means we could po&s;|&s;ible u&s;e; and by that time we had brought her too again, and &s;tood a little way to make her &s;tay, the <HI>Perrigrins</HI> Main|ma&s;t went by the bord (and it &s;eems &s;he was &s;urrendred to the Dutch, with the <HI>Levant Merchant</HI> before) and being on the other tack, I heard our Captain &s;ay again, he would on bord the <HI>Leopard,</HI> and that knot of &s;hips, but then when all, or the chiefe&s;t of his Officers came, and gave him their opi|nion, that if we &s;hould go on bord, it would be very hazar|dous, and que&s;tionable whether we &s;hould be di&s;-entangled againe, before we were all a&s;hore together, or have been o|therwi&s;e de&s;troyed by fire: Therefore he thought fit to or|der us to &s;et our Main-&s;aile, and withdraw, in regard we could hardly weather the <HI>Malora:</HI> And being thwart of the <HI>Malora,</HI> or very little without (it being about an hour af|ter we had &s;et our Main-&s;aile) I &s;aw the <HI>Leopards</HI> Flagge downe, but the Vice-Admiral of the Dutch had her Flagge out, on bord of her. And moreover I doe aver, That mo&s;t part of that day, and as we &s;tood out, the winde was at E. S. E. and S. E. b E. in&s;omuch that we could lay South, and S. b E. to the S. and by W. with the &s;temm, and wea|ther'd the <HI>Gorgano,</HI> about 3 or 4 Leagues.</P>
<P>And moreover I doe te&s;tifie, that in my opinion, if the
<PB N="84" REF="45">&s;hip <HI>Mary</HI> had been at an Anchor in the place where &s;he was when we fir&s;t left our Main-&s;aile, the neere&s;t of the Flem|mings (being then on the edge of the <HI>Malora</HI>-&s;and) would have been about 6 or 8 miles running before they could come to her, who then can be &s;o mad but &s;otti&s;h people, to judge her in any danger; and &s;uddenly after we were clear of the <HI>Malora,</HI> long before night, our Admiral &s;taid until all the &s;hips came up with us, and e&s;pecially the <HI>Mary,</HI> who was cal'd to from our &s;hip, and was directed what cour&s;e we &s;hould &s;teer when it was night. </P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Dated</HI> <DATE>the 6 <HI>of</HI> October, 1653.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>John Jeakins.</SIGNED>
<POSTSCRIPT>
<P><HI>Sworne,</HI> <DATE>Octob. 6. 1653.</DATE></P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>John Page.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</POSTSCRIPT></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="9" TYPE="affidavit">
<HEAD>The ninth Affidavit.</HEAD>
<P>THe&s;e are to certifie whom&s;oever it doth concerne, That being <HI>Carpenter</HI> of the &s;hip cal'd the <HI>Perrigrine,</HI> then in <HI>Legorn</HI> Mould, upon the fourth of <HI>March</HI> la&s;t, in the morn|ing I heard our Captain <HI>John Wood</HI> &s;ay, that we went out too &s;oone; and after our &s;hip was lo&s;t, being at M^r <HI>Long|lands</HI> when the &s;aid Captain came fir&s;t a&s;hore, very much wounded, I heard M^r <HI>Longland</HI> &s;ay, <HI>In regard Capt. Badileyes Order was not followed, therefore our Squadron was ruined.</HI></P>
<P>And moreover, I heard Capt. <HI>John Wood</HI> Reply to this effect, <HI>We cannot blame Capt. Badiley, but mu&s;t confe&s;&s;e that our de&s;truction is of our &s;elves, for had we &s;taid a little longer, while the &s;aid Badiley had been engaged, no doubt but that might have been &s;aved, which is lo&s;t.</HI></P>
<P>And moreover I heard Mr. <HI>Longland</HI> &s;ay at that time, as &s;oon as ever he heard they were under &s;aile (to &s;ay, our &s;hips in the Mould) he &s;hut him&s;elfe up in his Cham|ber, and there in his thoughts gave them all for lo&s;t.</P>
<P>And moreover I am able to te&s;tifie, That in <HI>Augu&s;t</HI> 1652. a Flemming coming from <HI>Zant,</HI> declaring how he came
<PB N="85" REF="45">out of the <HI>Levant</HI> with C. <HI>Badiley,</HI> and that he might be ex|pected every day at <HI>Legorn,</HI> yet notwith&s;tanding the States &s;hips with us, lay in the Mould unrigg'd, and unprepared, &s;o that when it was nois'd about that Capt. <HI>Badiley</HI> was in the <HI>Offing,</HI> in Fight, although we in the <HI>Perrigreen</HI> had our Top-ma&s;ts an end, and were kept Victualled, yet the <HI>Leo|pard,</HI> and <HI>Bonaventure,</HI> were not in a readine&s;&s;e to go to Sea, nor could not have been in a day or two, the <HI>Leopards</HI> Main|ma&s;t being all unrigg'd.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Dated <DATE>the thirteenth of September, 1653.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>John Butt.</SIGNED>
<POSTSCRIPT>
<P><HI>Sworne,</HI> <DATE>Sept. 13. 1653.</DATE></P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>John Page.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</POSTSCRIPT></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="10" TYPE="affidavit">
<HEAD>The tenth Affidavit.</HEAD>
<P>THe&s;e are to certifie whom it doth concerne, That where|as I was <HI>Carpenter</HI> of the &s;hip <HI>Perrigreen,</HI> in the Engage|ment neer <HI>Legorn</HI>-Road the 4 of <HI>March</HI> la&s;t, to my knowledg the afore-named &s;hip was &s;urrendred the Dutch about an houre before the Main-ma&s;t of the &s;aid &s;hip fell by the bord, and long before we were &s;urrendred it was nois'd up and down the &s;hip that the <HI>Levant Merchant</HI> was &s;urrendred to the Dutch. Moreover I doe confidently affirme, That the <HI>Leopards</HI> Flagge was downe, and the Flemi&s;h Colours &s;pread in that &s;hip, ere the Engli&s;h Fleet that withdrew, had wanted an houre, in my judgement, or at mo&s;t two houres, from di&s;charging their Ordnance on the Enemy: This is as neer as I can give an e&s;timate, to the be&s;t of my remembrance..</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Dated <DATE>the 30 <HI>of</HI> September, 1653</DATE> neere <HI>London,</HI></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>John Butt.</SIGNED>
<POSTSCRIPT>
<P>I can atte&s;t the &s;ub&s;tance of the above-mentioned parti|culars to be true.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Gregory Barnett.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</POSTSCRIPT></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="11" TYPE="affidavit">
<PB N="86" REF="46">
<HEAD>The eleventh Affidavit.</HEAD>
<P>I <HI>David Booth,</HI> being a Mate on the <HI>Parragon,</HI> do te&s;tifie, That the 4 of <HI>March</HI> la&s;t, from one a clock i'the morn: until it was day (when we &s;eem'd to be neer the Lantern of <HI>Legorn</HI>) God was plea&s;ed to give our &s;hips in the Mould as faire an opportunity for coming out to us, as men could de&s;ire, by a fre&s;h gale of wind at E. N. E. &s;o that in all likelihood they might have weather'd the Enemy above a mile, they riding all fa&s;t at an Anchor in the Road, but neglecting to put Capt. <HI>Badiley's</HI> Order in execution, proved their ruine, as al&s;o their not working, as men ought to have done, next morning, for had they &s;tayed while the Dutch had com to Lee-ward upon us, and engaged us, they might have done good &s;ervice, by following on the back of the Enemy, for all men &s;aw, coming out as they did, they thru&s;t them&s;elves into danger, and all rea&s;onable men might well have thought, the Enemy would have tack't back on them, &s;ee|ing us &s;o far to Lee-ward, that we could not come in to their &s;uccour, in two or three houres time.</P>
<P>And moreover I can te&s;tifie, That as &s;oon as ever the word was given, the &s;hips were coming out of the Mould, we did as much as was po&s;&s;ible for men to do, ha&s;tening in with all the &s;ail we could make, to the hazard of our Ma&s;ts.</P>
<P>And being come neer, I am &s;ure no man could &s;hew more re&s;olution to carry on the work of the day, then our Com|mander &s;hewed, and required all men to fit, for that he in|tended to bord the Dutch Admiral, and when we gave her a broad &s;ide, that had been done, but that we &s;aw the <HI>Leopard</HI> wanted relief, &s;o we went to di&s;entangle the <HI>Leopard,</HI> from tho&s;e Enemies on bord her in the fir&s;t place, and going by tho&s;e &s;hips within Pi&s;tol &s;hot, our &s;hip would not bear up, that the Capt. de&s;ire in going on bord that clu&s;ter of &s;hips, might be effected, if al our lives had lain on't; but if the <HI>Leo|pard</HI> had let goe an Anchor, they might have clear'd them|&s;elves with ea&s;e, yet they did it not, all men were hous'd, not a man to be &s;een on her upper Deck.</P>
<P>And whereas I have heard, that Capt. <HI>Appleton</HI> &s;hould &s;ay
<PB N="87" REF="46">Capt. <HI>Badiley</HI> would not &s;uccour him, nor &s;uffer any others to doe it, it is a mo&s;t fal&s;e thing; for I am confident our Captain was in &s;uch a pa&s;&s;ion when he &s;aw our &s;hip would not work, that he &s;eem'd to tear his haire, in regard none of our nimble &s;hips would doe what he was not able to doe; and afterwards, when the <HI>Parragon</HI> was got about by making a &s;hort trip, and &s;taying, there was then no rea&s;on to have gone abord the <HI>Leopard,</HI> &s;he being laid &s;o far to|wards the &s;and, the wind being at E. S. E. without it had been re&s;olved we &s;hould peri&s;h together.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>David Both.</SIGNED>
<POSTSCRIPT>
<P><HI>Sworne,</HI> <DATE>Sept. 20. 1653.</DATE></P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>John Page.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</POSTSCRIPT></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="12" TYPE="affidavit">
<HEAD>The twelfth Affidavit.</HEAD>
<P>THe&s;e are to certifie whom&s;oever it may concerne, That whereas I was a Ma&s;ters-Mate in the <HI>Phaenix</HI> Frigot, being neer <HI>Legorn</HI> in the Fleet upon the 4 of <HI>March</HI> la&s;t, I ob|&s;erved that the night before (or at lea&s;t) after ten of clock til morning, we had a fine fre&s;h gale of wind, &s;o that the &s;hips in the Mould to my under&s;tanding, might have come out of the Mould if they would, and after it was light on the day afore&s;aid, I never &s;aw to the contrary, but our Ad|miral ha&s;tned in with all the &s;aile he could make, and al|though he &s;ent order for us to goe before, to the relief of the &s;hips coming out of the Mould, yet I am a&s;&s;ured there was no diligence wanting in him that had the Command of all, to ply in, but the wind being &s;ometimes much, and &s;ometimes little, I believe that heavy foule &s;hip the <HI>Parra|gon,</HI> could not be wrought to their minds, and con&s;equent|ly they could not bord tho&s;e &s;hips on bord the <HI>Leopard,</HI> to their relief, as they de&s;ired to doe, and it was the opini|on of mo&s;t knowing men in our Frigot, there was no rea|&s;on to &s;tay longer, in hopes to relieve the <HI>Leopard,</HI> then we did.</P>
<PB N="88" REF="47">
<P>And moreover, I am able to te&s;tifie, that &s;uch as did lea&s;t in our Fleet towards the above-mentioned &s;hips relief, did as much as either the <HI>Lewis,</HI> or <HI>Mary.</HI></P>
<P>And moreover I doe atte&s;t, That being in the Bay of <HI>Lo|gos,</HI> about the end of the &s;aid Month of <HI>March,</HI> the Admi|ral &s;ent me on bord the &s;hips <HI>Lewis</HI> and <HI>Mary,</HI> with a War|rant to each Commander, Authorizing them to &s;pare two men of each &s;hips company, to man the <HI>Augu&s;tine</HI> Prize, but both one, and the other, refu&s;ed to render any conformity or obedience thereunto: Nay notwith&s;tanding (I carried two lu&s;ty Flemmings in their roomes) with all the argu|ments I could u&s;e to the contrary, they utterly denyed the &s;ame.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Dated, <DATE>Sept. 14. 1653.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>John Plumpton.</SIGNED>
<POSTSCRIPT>
<P><HI>Sworne,</HI> <DATE>September 14. 1653.</DATE></P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>John Page.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</POSTSCRIPT></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="13" TYPE="affidavit">
<HEAD>The thirteenth Affidavit.</HEAD>
<P>THe&s;e are to certifie whom it may concerne, That being a Reformado on the States &s;hip <HI>Parragon,</HI> ha|ving had a fre&s;h gale of winde off the &s;hore the night before the 4 of <HI>March.</HI> At breake of day finding our &s;elves to be &s;omewhat further off then we made ac|count, I am able to te&s;tifie, all &s;aile was made to ply in|to <HI>Legorn</HI>-Road, as po&s;&s;ible could be, until about an houre after, that the Dutch Fleet was come out neer <HI>Mount Ne|gro,</HI> and then their head-mo&s;t &s;hips bearing off directly up|on us, our Main-&s;aile was hail'd up for halfe an houre, as was all the rea&s;on in the world, that we might have no|thing hinder us from plying all our Guns between Decks, &amp; that our men might be ready to &s;tand by our great Ord|nance; but as &s;oone as ever our Ships came out of the Mould, all the &s;aile the wind would give leave, was kept
<PB N="89" REF="47">abroad, and the Admiral plyed in with all diligence, &s;end|ing me in a <HI>Feluca</HI> to ha&s;ten in the Frigots before, w^c^h I did, &amp; to my knowledge it was fir&s;t declared by him, his re&s;oluti|on was to bord the Dutch Admiral, but coming &s;o neer her as that we could di&s;charge a Volley of &s;mal &s;hot to a|ny purpo&s;e, we did it, together with a broad &s;ide of great Ordnance; and &s;eeing none of our Frigots going on bord to the relief of the <HI>Leopard,</HI> our Captaine &s;eeing &s;o many of the Fleet lo&s;t, judging it the mo&s;t nece&s;&s;arie&s;t &s;ervice to re|liefe her, we &s;tood towards that &s;hip, but being the wind was very fre&s;h, it was not held fit we &s;hould run &s;temlings with all our &s;ailes (except the Main-&s;aile, and top-gal|lant &s;ailes, for ends before denoted) however after we had powred a broad &s;ide into the <HI>Julius Coe&s;ar,</HI> and pa&s;t within two or three &s;hips lengths of her &s;terne, great indeavours were u&s;ed to make our &s;hip <HI>Parragon</HI> bear up, that we might come to the other tack, that &s;o we might goe on bord with the more ea&s;e; but it plea&s;ed God the wind dullard all on the &s;udden, &s;o that we could not make our &s;hip work, nor bear up in any time, if all our lives had laine on't, and then bringing our &s;hip to againe, before we could make her &s;tay, we were &s;hot &s;o far, that before po&s;&s;ible we could get a|bord the <HI>Leopard,</HI> &s;he was driven &s;o neer the &s;and of the <HI>Ma|lora,</HI> that it was my opinion humbly given in to the Admi|ral among other Officers, in ca&s;e we &s;hould have further in|deavoured to have gone on bord, it would be almo&s;t im|po&s;&s;ible ever to di&s;intangle our &s;elves from them againe, un|til we had been upon the afore-mentioned &s;and, the wind being at E. S. E. mo&s;t commonly: And to my knowledge, when the Captaine &s;aw that the &s;hip would not work, he order'd &s;ome of the nimble &s;hips to be cal'd unto to doe that &s;ervice, and if the <HI>Mary</HI> or the <HI>Lewis</HI> had beene neer us, they had been cal'd to as wel as the <HI>Mary Ro&s;e.</HI> And I am confidently a&s;&s;ured, that &s;uch as did Iea&s;t in our Fleet, did as much &s;ervice again&s;t the Enemy, to de&s;troy &s;uch as borded the <HI>Leopard,</HI> as did either Capt. <HI>Ell,</HI> or Capt. <HI>Fi|&s;her;</HI> and whatever the Captaines of the&s;e &s;hips &s;ay now we are come home, I am &s;ure in our homeward bound
<PB N="90" REF="48">way it was the vote and expre&s;&s;ion of them, and all other Captaines in the Fleet, that if we had engag'd any further in the bu&s;ine&s;&s;e of <HI>Legorn,</HI> all had been lo&s;t.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Chri&s;topher Mings.</SIGNED>
<POSTSCRIPT>
<P><HI>Sworne,</HI> <DATE>Sept. 13. 1653.</DATE></P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>John Page.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</POSTSCRIPT></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="14" TYPE="affidavit">
<HEAD>The fourteenth Affidavit.</HEAD>
<P>THe&s;e are to certifie whom&s;oever it doth concerne, That being in the &s;hip <HI>Advance</HI> with Capt. <HI>Badiley,</HI> his Mate in <HI>Anno</HI> 1637. neer <HI>Malta,</HI> being all alone, in the above-men|tioned &s;hip, by his well managing of that bu&s;ines, &s;o were 3 vapouring <HI>Turks</HI> men of War of great force baffled, that they fled from us, and we chas'd after them as long as we had any hopes of fetching them up, although we were all alone, and not above 44 men in us.</P>
<P>And in 1640. I was a Ma&s;ters-Mate on the &s;aid &s;hip with Capt. <HI>Ri: Badiley,</HI> about <HI>Cape Paul,</HI> we were laid abord by 2 <HI>Turks,</HI> men of War, that were Ca&s;tles in compari&s;on to us, and by report had at lea&s;t 500 men to our 44, who entring us, were beat back, where many were forc't to leap over|bord; and although many times we were fired and burnt very much, in &s;everal places, yet God keeping up the re&s;o|lution of both our Commander, and Company, &s;o it was (through Gods a&s;&s;i&s;tance) that I believe never any could doe more in a di&s;pute of that nature; the Commander coming to encourage the men, would &s;ay, <HI>Come gallants, let me know how it is with you now, they would cry fore and aft, we want nothing, but a new place in the Enemies &s;ide, to make a new hole in.</HI> In fine, how they were baffled, that ones Fore|ma&s;t and Bow&s;prit was &s;hot by the bord, and the other torne &s;o lamentably, as I believe ever &s;hip was, as not be|ing able to budge or &s;tir. Several men yet living, well
<PB N="91" REF="48">know, who &s;aw many of their great platformes of Ord|nance di&s;-mounted, and not above one man on all their middle Deck, with their Guns, but the greate&s;t part of their men run into the Hold, and the <HI>Turks</HI> can be&s;t of all tell how they felt it.</P>
<P>And in <HI>Anno</HI> 1644, of <HI>Matril</HI> with Capt. <HI>Badiley,</HI> in the &s;aid &s;hip all alone, three <HI>Turkes</HI> men of War came fiercely up with us, as if they would de&s;troy us at once, who could not have le&s;&s;e then 4 or 500 men, to our 44, yet by Gods a&s;&s;i&s;tance, although our Commander cal'd them abord, they were &s;o di&s;heartened at our fir&s;t broad &s;ide, that like Doggs with their tailes between their leggs, they run away from us, with all the &s;aile they could make, and never &s;hot at us more, for hindring their way.</P>
<P>In the <HI>Parragon</HI> being a Mate and Pylot there, in our En|gagement with the <HI>Dutch,</HI> neer <HI>Cor&s;igo</HI> the 27 and 28 of <HI>Au|gu&s;t,</HI> &s;uch was our Commanders re&s;olution in the face of the Enemy, that I am per&s;waded it's impo&s;&s;ible for any man to be more; and after that we had about four&s;core men kil'd and wounded in our &s;hip, and my &s;elfe wounded in three places, &s;o that I was not able to help my &s;elfe, or Com|mander, yet I know whereas he plac't every man anew at his Quarters, and each man over night gave his hand to live and dye with him next day, if occa&s;ion were; howbe|it the 29 day in the morning, about the coming downe of our Main-yard, mo&s;t of the men were &s;o rallyed into a mu|tinous di&s;temper, that they &s;aid, <HI>If the Enemy comes up we &s;hall have no Quarter, let's be gone with the Frigots, another &s;hot &s;hall not be made;</HI> but I &s;uppo&s;e it was occa&s;ioned withall from a report there was of 45 foot water in the &s;hip.</P>
<P>At that time &s;eeing one <HI>Hide</HI> with two or three others &s;tanding in a knot, I &s;aid, <HI>Good Sirs, we that did &s;uch good &s;er|vice ye&s;terday, let's not leave the Commander to day; if this &s;hip, and &s;o great a &s;trength of the Nations be lo&s;t, it would be the great|e&s;t di&s;grace that ever befell our Nation;</HI> he replyed, <HI>Wee'l fight no more, the State hath better &s;hips, but we have no more lives.</HI> Nay to &s;uch a height the mutiny was growne, that I have
<PB N="92" REF="49">heard &s;ome &s;ay, <HI>If the Captaine would not &s;uffer them to call for Quarter, they would &s;towe him well enough,</HI> or words to that purpo&s;e.</P>
<P>And whereas in the la&s;t Engagement neer <HI>Legorn,</HI> I was next &s;ubordinate to <HI>Peter Whyting</HI> in the Fire-&s;hip, called the <HI>Spy,</HI> thus much I did ob&s;erve, That the gale Ea&s;terly of the &s;hore continued all night, and if they in the Mould had come out whil'&s;t God gave them an opportunity by the E|clip&s;e of the Moon, I believe they had not been &s;hot with many &s;hot from the Enemy, who of nece&s;&s;ity they mu&s;t have weather'd, and &s;o have joyned with us very hand&s;omely; and when it was day the Admiral plyed in for the Road, with all po&s;&s;ible diligence, until he came neer within Mu&s;|ket &s;hot of the Dutch Admiral, &amp; that he alter'd his cour&s;e to goe for the <HI>Leopard.</HI> In this interim, I being on bord the Fire&s;hip afor&s;aid, know that our Admiral &s;ends us word to do our execution upon the Dutch Admir. who was brought by the Lee, but I never under&s;tood that he would ever come neerer to us with his owne &s;hip, then he was, and I know not to what purpo&s;e he &s;hould, there being (except the Dutch Admiral) none to hurt us, within &s;hot, that I &s;aw, but tho&s;e on bord the <HI>Leopard,</HI> and to windward we might goe on bord what &s;hip we would, which was our owne, but our Capt. <HI>Whiting</HI> would not let us &s;et our Main-&s;aile to doe the &s;ervice; and when it came to, get into the Boat one of the fir&s;t (as I have heard) &s;haking like an <HI>A&s;phen</HI> leaf, leaving me on bord between drowning and burning, in a mo&s;t mi&s;erable condition; and I doubt it would go hard with him for his life, if he &s;hould come to be que&s;tio|ned in the bu&s;ines, for &s;o great Cowardi&s;e. </P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Dated</HI> <DATE>Sept. 7 1653.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>John Steele.</SIGNED>
<POSTSCRIPT>
<P><HI>Sworne,</HI> <DATE>Sept. 7.</DATE></P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>John Page.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</POSTSCRIPT></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="account">
<PB N="93" REF="49">
<HEAD>And now that &s;uch as wi&s;h well to Captaine <HI>Wad&s;worth,</HI> may not have any prejudicate Opinion again&s;t me, nor conceive I have received little or no wrong from him, who as I have heard, in&s;tead of humbling him&s;elfe, hath been at worke to blow up the&s;e Coales, adding to that what I have heard both by the weekly intelligence that came from <HI>Ge|noa,</HI> to <HI>Legorne,</HI> and otherwi&s;e by private Letters, how that the &s;aid <HI>Wad&s;worth</HI> had a&s;per&s;ed and be &s;pattered me in refe|rence to what pa&s;t in our fir&s;t Engagement with the Dutch, the <HI>28</HI> of <HI>Augu&s;t, 1652.</HI> (although the particulars I could yet never be fully informed of) I can doe no le&s;&s;e then briefly ex|pre&s;&s;e my &s;elfe about that bu&s;ine&s;&s;e, and &s;hew all rationall men how little rea&s;on he hath had, either for one or the other.</HEAD>
<P>IN <HI>February,</HI> 1649 or 50, hearing how well he had car|ried him&s;elfe under Col. <HI>Lidcott,</HI> upon the Coa&s;t of <HI>Ire|land,</HI> and withal con&s;idering how earne&s;tly he had de&s;ired to be employed under me in Merchant Affaires, having then the mo&s;t con&s;iderable&s;t intere&s;t in the &s;hip <HI>Perrigrine,</HI> that was impre&s;t into the States &s;ervice, I did in a &s;pecial man|ner recommend him to the General, for the Command of that &s;hip.</P>
<P>And fithence he was employed in the States &s;ervice under me, in our late trouble&s;ome Voyage, in the beginning there|of he very well knoweth I endeavoured to engage him by &s;everal acts of civility, yet notwith&s;tanding all per&s;wa&s;i|ons I could u&s;e, he pre&s;umed to make the fir&s;t breach a|mong the three &s;hips of War of us, which were &s;ent out: whereupon, as I told him, it was very ill done, &s;o I wi&s;ht it might be the la&s;t breach he might make, although I fear'd the contrary.</P>
<P>But now to come to the Engagement before &s;ignified.</P>
<P>Whereas he was order'd to lye in one of the Quarters of the &s;hip I was upon, and yet goeth a head (contrary to or|der) appeareth by a Letter to Mr. <HI>Longland,</HI> under his own hand as followeth.</P>
<LETTER LANG="eng">
<PB N="94" REF="50">
<OPENER><SALUTE>SIR;</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>I <HI>Kindly &s;alute you, The&s;e being to acquaint you with my &s;ad di|&s;a&s;ter of the lo&s;&s;e of our Frigot; I &s;hall not need to write the circum&s;tances of the bu&s;ine&s;&s;e, becau&s;e I believe you have them already, but I &s;hall give you a true relation of the lo&s;&s;e of her. A|bout three of the clock in the afternoone, the</HI> 28 <HI>of</HI> Augu&s;t, <HI>the Admiral having two great &s;hips of forty peece of Ordnance a piece abord of him, and another ready to clap him cro&s;&s;e the Hau&s;e, and another upon the Bough, I e&s;pying their de&s;igne, being two or three Cables lengths a head of him, tackt my &s;hip to interrupt one of them, but my Sailes, Rigging, and Ma&s;ts, being all torn, I could not worke her &s;o well as I would, fell abord of him, but having many of my men, about fifty &s;laine, and twenty wounded, and &s;ome running away in my boat, and being fired, and oppre&s;t by their men, and finding not the other Frigots to relieve me, as I did the Admirall, and having two other &s;hips lay gauling me under my Lee, we were forc't to &s;urrender; but I doubt not but they will be cal'd to an Account for their Cowardly courage in this bu&s;ine&s;&s;e. Not having el&s;e at pre&s;ent, I take my leave, and re&s;t,</HI></P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>From <HI>Porto Longone,</HI> <DATE><HI>Sept.</HI> 3. 1652.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Your Servant to Command, <HI>Jo: Wad&s;worth.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</LETTER>
<P>And although I heard in effect what the Certificate here-annexed certifieth, how that if a carefull per&s;on had made fa&s;t the Doores of the Round-hou&s;e and &s;teerage, as they ought to have been made fa&s;t when an Enemy was en|tring, the &s;hip might have been &s;aved.</P>
<Q><TEXT LANG="eng">
<BODY>
<DIV1 TYPE="certificate">
<HEAD>The Certificate made by Captaine <HI>Wad&s;worth's</HI> Clerk, followeth:</HEAD>
<P><HI>BE it knowne unto all men whom it may concerne, That on the</HI> 27 <HI>day rf</HI> Augu&s;t, 1652. <HI>meeting with ten &s;aile of Hollands men of War, the</HI> Parragon <HI>being our Admiral, and with her the</HI> Phaenix, Elizabeth, Con&s;tant Warwick, <HI>with foure Merchants &s;hips, about foure of the clock in the afternoone the Fight began, and continued till night, and the next morning being the</HI> 28 <HI>of the &s;aid Moneth we began againe, and about twelve of the clock one of</HI>
<PB N="95" REF="50">the <HI>Hollands</HI> men of warre laid the <HI>Parragon</HI> aboard, and a|bout half an hour after another laid him aboard, each ha|ving fourty Guns, and Captain <HI>Iohn Wad&s;worth</HI> being Com|mander of the <HI>Phenix</HI> Frigot, &s;eeing a third coming on board his Admiral, tackt and went about for the &s;ecurity of his Admiral, and being then clo&s;e upon a wind, and two <HI>Hol|lands</HI> men of warre coming up with him, and lying of his broad &s;ide, &s;hot at him as fa&s;t as they could, and tore all his Rigging, whereby his Friggot was taken a&s;tais; and then another of the <HI>Hollands</HI> Ships named the <HI>Endrath,</HI> by acci|dent fell cro&s;&s;e the <HI>Phenix</HI> Hai&s;e, and pre&s;ently entred her men, and the <HI>Phenix</HI> having beene in fight all that day, and a great many men &s;lain, and wounded, and weari|ed out; the&s;e <HI>Hollands</HI> Ships being new come up with us, with fre&s;h men, beat our men off the Deck, and we retreated into the Round-hou&s;e, and &s;teerage, and pre&s;ently after we were beaten off the Deck; Captain <HI>Iohn Wad&s;worth</HI> went downe betweene Decks for to encourage his men; and all the powder we had in the Round-hou&s;e being &s;pent, only what were in the guns, we &s;ent one man down for powder, who was &s;laine as he went down the &s;taires in the &s;teerage; and while&s;t we expected his coming with powder, the enemy approached &s;o nigh, they thru&s;t in their &s;words, and cut the &s;net which made fa&s;t the leaves of the doore, whereby we were forced to retreat down between Decks; and as I was going I &s;aw one of the leaves of the &s;teerage-doore open, but whether it were cut open as the Round-hou&s;e doore was, I know not, neither could I &s;ee any man in the Steerage, or Cabbin, but one which came down out of the Round-hou&s;e with me, who was &s;laine on the &s;tairs of the Steerage. This I te&s;tifie to be of a truth,</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>whereunto I have &s;et my hand on board the <HI>Parragon,</HI> in Port <HI>Longone</HI> <DATE>this 28 of <HI>Ianu.</HI> 1652.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Chri&s;topher Bovey.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV1>
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</TEXT></Q>
<P>YEt notwith&s;tanding what is before denoted, and how|beit it was not unknown to my &s;elf and others, that
<PB N="96" REF="51">Merchant Ships having but fourty and odde men, by being careful to make all doores and hatches &s;urely fa&s;t, have maintain'd their Ships again&s;t &s;uch of the enemies as have come on board them, and have had above four hundred be|tween them.</P>
<P>However in my fir&s;t Letter to Authority in <HI>England,</HI> I wrote onely thus; <HI>In our di&s;pute the</HI> Phenix <HI>Friggot was lo&s;t very &s;trangely, I wi&s;h (to &s;peak the lea&s;t) there had not beene carele&s;ne&s;&s;e in it.</HI></P>
<P>Now I appeal to all rational men, looking back to what is before related, whether I could have wrote more mode|rately if Captain <HI>Wad&s;worth</HI> had been my brother; for by that expre&s;&s;ion, I did not &s;o tax him, but he might have cleared him&s;elf by imputing it on his men, if by their carele&s;ne&s;&s;e the doores had not been made fa&s;t, or by their cowardlines they had left their quarters in the &s;teerage and Cabbin, and run el&s;ewhere.</P>
<P>But before I &s;ent away my next Letters, I heard the mans &s;pirit was very high-flown, that now we were all taxt, as tho&s;e that dealt ba&s;ely, cowardly, and unworthily with him, ac|cording to the contents of the Letter he wrote Mr. <HI>Boneale,</HI> as follows.</P>
<LETTER LANG="eng">
<OPENER><SALUTE><HI>Mr.</HI> Boneale,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>SIR, <HI>I kindly &s;alute you, giving you many thanks for your kinde remembrance of me, though in affliction, and to advi&s;e you that I have received your Letter with the enclo&s;ed, and that Mr.</HI> Mu&s;&s;ell, <HI>and</HI> William Powell <HI>are very well, though many others lo&s;t, and wounded, my &s;elf being wounded in my hand, &s;o that I cannot write unto you the Relation of our &s;ight (but I have wrote to Ma&s;ter</HI> Longland <HI>of the whole, which I que&s;tion not, but he hath certified you of) our fleet hath dealt mo&s;t unworthily, cowardly and ba&s;ely by me, and that is all I &s;hall advi&s;e you at pre|&s;ent; but they will be made to know it, when it &s;hall plea&s;e God to &s;end me well home: nought el&s;e at pre&s;ent: I re&s;t</HI></P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>From aboard the Rear-Admiral of the Hollanders in Port <HI>Longone.</HI> <DATE>Septemb, 3. 1653.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Your loving friend <HI>John &idagger; Wad&s;worth.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</LETTER>
<PB N="97" REF="51">
<P>Wherupon le&s;t he &s;hould have wrote to my di&s;paragemen into <HI>England,</HI> I could do no le&s;&s;e then &s;ignifie what I did in my next Letters about the two great Friggots lying like Chickens under the <HI>Parragons</HI> wing. contrary to Order, ma|king many men in the Fleet, cry out upon them, what a &s;hame it was; yet I profe&s;&s;e I did it not &s;o much to the end they might be called to accompt, or be &s;harply rebuk'd about it, as I did to the end, that when the carriage of the Com|manders of our Fleet, &amp; my own Company were deciphered in point of their backwardne&s;&s;e, it might be a more effectual argument to &s;uch as &s;ate at Sterne in <HI>England</HI> to &s;end me &s;ome additional &s;trength, and other per&s;ons out in halfe a dozen, or a dozen Ships and Friggots (as to them &s;hould &s;eeme mo&s;t meet) then a thou&s;and arguments of another nature.</P>
<P>One word more: that it may be known what kinde of con|&s;cience &s;ome men have that act in the world, and how little rea&s;on Captain <HI>Wad&s;worth</HI> had to be&s;patter me either in <HI>En|gland,</HI> or el&s;ewhere, the Letter following under his owne hand doth &s;ufficiently manife&s;t, as al&s;o the following Cer|tificate.</P>
<Q><TEXT LANG="eng">
<BODY>
<DIV1 TYPE="certificate">
<OPENER><SALUTE>Captain <HI>Badiley,</HI></SALUTE>
<DATELINE><DATE><HI>September</HI> 2. 1652.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SALUTE>SIR,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>I <HI>Kindly &s;alute you: the&s;e being to acquaint you of the intents of my proceedings in the time of the fight, by rea&s;on I heare &s;o many fal&s;e tales, and &s;uch reproachful &s;peeches come from tho&s;e you &s;ent, of which I conceive you might be an eye-witne&s;&s;e of their unworthy carriage before our coming to fight, in making no more ha&s;te to us, &amp; in the latter part of the fight, in not coming to re&s;cue your &s;elfe and me. When I &s;aw you laid on board of both &s;ides, and others ready to clap you thwart the haw&s;e, and one coming on your Bough, I thought the re&s;t would be as for|ward as my &s;elf, being in a better capacity; but finding it con|trary to my expectation, and their unworthy promi&s;es, I have &s;uf|fered, but the Fleet is pre&s;erved by it, when I tack'd, I intended
<PB N="98" REF="52">not the laying of him aboard, but the keeping him off your &s;elf; but our &s;ails and rigging being torne, we could not work our Ship, and had either of our two Friggots &s;econded me, however I had car|ried him; but my men being many of them kill'd, and de&s;perate|ly wounded, and &s;o many of the likelie&s;t of my men run away in my Boat, which I hope you will call to account: for had it not been that they ran away, I had got clear of them, for they had cut their Main&s;tay to get clear of me. Now if this my acting in the whole time hath been cowardline&s;&s;e, I appeale to the whole world. Be&s;ides, I will have &s;ufficient te&s;timony from the whole Ships Company; I could net have thought that men had beene &s;o inhumane as Captaine</HI> Cox, <HI>to report to the Flemi&s;h Captaines that came on board him, that it were better I had been kill'd; for if ever I came home, I &s;hould be hang'd; the which death doth lea&s;t of all trouble me, but rather take care how to get there, where I &s;hall call him to account for his treacherous actions, and his running away at that time when he &s;hould have come to my help. I am much troubled that I cannot come to &s;peak by word of mouth to you, by rea&s;on I have abundance more to relate, which time now will not permit to write; having nothing el&s;e at pre&s;ent, I re&s;t</HI></P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your loving Friend <HI>John Wad&s;worth.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="answer">
<HEAD>To which my an&s;wer as briefly thus:</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Captain <HI>Wad&s;worth,</HI></SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>I <HI>Have received your of ye&s;ters dayes date, and take notice of what you &s;ay, but by the way, I mu&s;t needs tell you, that if you had followed order, I &s;uppo&s;e, the trouble of yours had beene prevented; however I &s;hall not make it my bu&s;ine&s;&s;e to adde af|fliction to the afflicted, but &s;ending you &s;uch things as you &s;tand in need of; I remaine</HI></P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Yours, Ri. Badiley.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="certificate">
<P>THe&s;e are to certifie all whom it may concerne, that Cap|taine <HI>John Wad&s;worth,</HI> late Commander of the <HI>Phenix</HI>
<PB N="99" REF="52">Friggot, having made his e&s;cap from aboard the Flemings, came aboard the States &s;hip the <HI>Leopard,</HI> and (after morning Sermon, on the 17th. day of <HI>October,</HI> 1652.) made a &s;peech (among all the people there then pre&s;ent) tending to the vindication of him&s;elf, from tho&s;e a&s;per&s;ions that were ca&s;t upon him, be|cau&s;e of his lo&s;ing the &s;aid Friggot; in which &s;peech he &s;eem'd to a&s;per&s;e others. But being demanded, whether Captaine <HI>Badiley</HI> could do any more then he did? his an&s;wer was, No; to which he added this rea&s;on: Becau&s;e his Ship was &s;o much batter'd and torne, that he could not come to his a&s;&s;i&s;tance, but had work enough on board his own &s;hip. He added more|over, that he &s;pake concerning the Commanders of the o|ther two Friggots. To the truth of the above written Certifi|cate, we who&s;e names are here &s;ub&s;cribed, are ready to make depo&s;itions at any time, being thereunto lawfully called.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Reynold Newham,</HI> Ma&s;ter.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Ed. Spradborrough,</HI> Mini&s;ter.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>George Wrightington,</HI> Ma&s;ters Mate.</ITEM>
</LIST></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV1>
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</TEXT></Q>
<LETTER LANG="eng">
<HEAD>In the next place, I have thought fit to in&s;ert one of that great Dukes Letters, to &s;hew, Capt. <HI>Appletons</HI> a&s;&s;ault of his Centinel, and not the <HI>Phenix</HI> Friggot caus'd him to be agreeved.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Sir,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P><HI>MAster</HI> Appleton <HI>hath been &s;o uncivil, (not remembring the courte&s;ies and advantage which the Engli&s;h &s;hips have receiv'd in</HI> Livorno,) <HI>which be&s;ides th'other his unrea&s;onable proceedings and attempts, which he hath let run again&s;t all con|ventions e&s;tabli&s;hed; hath al&s;o laid hands upon the Armes under the faithful tru&s;t of our Centinel of the</HI> Mould, <HI>and to take a per&s;on away in &s;o much violence from &s;uch a man which was in his hou&s;e there appointed, hath put me (in obligation) to premeditate upon &s;incere &s;atisfaction, and doubting he might draw him&s;elf out of cha&s;ti&s;ement by flying: I have ecteemed it nece&s;&s;ary to have him come hither, and have arre&s;ted him, put|ting
<PB N="100" REF="53">him in the cu&s;todie of this Ca&s;tle of</HI> Pi&s;a, <HI>that he may have &s;uch cha&s;ti&s;ement as meriteth; I would not do it without giving you this to understand by di&s;patching an expre&s;&s;e, being a&s;&s;ured that you will be di&s;plea&s;ed with things &s;o ill acted, and how much it imports to let alone loo&s;e re&s;pect, concurring in this my under|&s;tanding, which alwayes &s;hall be within the limits of that ob&s;er|vance which I profe&s;&s;e to the Parliament and Republike of</HI> Eng|land, <HI>and to tho&s;e and all &s;uch which do depend upon them, &s;hall alwayes demon&s;trate in all occa&s;ions my &s;incere e&s;timation; and in order therefore, have renewed the commi&s;&s;ions to my Officers in</HI> Livorne <HI>to be vigilant in defending the Engli&s;h &s;hips which are there, as they did at fir&s;t; and al&s;o with &s;o much the greater at|tention, in regard of the ab&s;ence of the &s;aid</HI> Appleton, <HI>and your &s;elf; &s;o re&s;t, praying for your pro&s;perity.</HI></P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Pi&s;a <DATE><HI>this fifth of</HI> December. 1652.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><HI>Sign'd the great Duke of</HI> Tu&s;cany.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
<TRAILER>To Capt. <HI>Richard Badiley,</HI> Admiral of the Engli&s;h Ships wirhin the <HI>Mediterranean</HI> Sea.</TRAILER>
</LETTER>
<P>(Now followeth)</P>
<P>AN An&s;wer to <HI>Signeur Montemagni</HI>'s relation, (one of the great Dukes Secretaries) as I find it in a Pamphlet, call'd the Remon&s;trance of a fight neer <HI>Legorn</HI> Roade.</P>
<P>What pa&s;t between him and <HI>Van Gallen</HI> the Dutch Admi|rall, concernes me not to take notice of.</P>
<P>But whereas he &s;aith, that he did fir&s;t acquaint me with the nece&s;&s;ity of finding out a way to give the Dutch &s;atisfaction, but it was all in vaine.</P>
<P>I believe no le&s;&s;e, for who can imagine that &s;hort of all we had, would be &s;atisfactory to an enemy?</P>
<P>But thus, upon the 10/20th. of <HI>Feb.</HI> the afore&s;aid per&s;on comes to me on board the <HI>Leopard,</HI> having pre&s;ented me with his Letter of Credence as followes.</P>
<Q><PB N="101" REF="53"><TEXT LANG="eng">
<BODY>
<DIV1 TYPE="answer">
<HEAD>Tran&s;lated out of <HI>Italian.</HI></HEAD>
<P><HI>UPon occa&s;ion of the an&s;wer which is come from the Parlia|ment of the Republick of</HI> England, <HI>concerning the bu&s;ine&s;s of the Friggot</HI> Phenix; <HI>I did di&s;patch for</HI> Legorn De&s;iderio Montemagni, <HI>my Secretary of State, who &s;hall deliver unto you the&s;e pre&s;ents, concerning all that which I &s;hall have to treat with you about the &s;aid matter; and therefore you may be pleas'd to give full faith to that which he &s;hall declare in my name: our Lord pre&s;erve you.</HI></P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>From <HI>Florence</HI> <DATE>the 18th. of <HI>Feb.</HI> 1652.</DATE> from the <HI>Incarnation.</HI></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>At your plea&s;ure, The great Duke of <HI>Tuskany.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
<TRAILER>To Captain <HI>Richard Badiley, Admirall of the Ships of the Republick of</HI> England <HI>in the</HI> Mediterranean <HI>Sea.</HI></TRAILER>
</DIV1>
</BODY>
</TEXT></Q>
<P>ANd in the pre&s;ence of Mr. <HI>Longland</HI> who was interpreter between us both, (for I profe&s;&s;e not to under&s;tand every word that &s;hall be &s;poken in <HI>Italian</HI>) he expre&s;t him&s;elf to this effect.</P>
<P>That his Ma&s;ter, the great Duke had receiv'd a Letter from the Councel of State, appointed from authority of the Par|liament of <HI>England,</HI> wherein were courteous expre&s;&s;ions; but there was nothing mentioned concerning the <HI>Phenix</HI> Friggot, which the Dutch pretended unto; and ab&s;olutely his Ma&s;ter mu&s;t, and would &s;ee them &s;atisfied.</P>
<P><HI>To which I made this mode&s;t reply;</HI></P>
<LETTER LANG="eng">
<OPENER><SALUTE>Sir,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>AS you have well denoted, I believe the Letter &s;ent his High|ne&s;s, by order from the Parliament of <HI>England;</HI> is not only
<PB N="102" REF="54">full of courteous, but reall acknowledgements of the great e&s;teem they have of his Highne&s;s favour, in vouch&s;afing pro|tection for their Ships in this place; and I believe at all times his Highne&s;&s;e may be confident that (in a reciprocal manner) the Engli&s;h Nation will acknowledge the &s;ame.</P>
<P>The Councel of State al&s;o hath been pleas'd to &s;ignifie unto me that their plea&s;ure is, Cap. <HI>Appleton</HI> &s;hall returne over land into <HI>England</HI> with all &s;peed, to give an account why he did a&s;&s;ault the great Dukes Centinel, (for, as I alwayes under|&s;tood, that uncivill act caus'd his Highne&s;&s;e to di&s;patch away the Me&s;&s;enger into <HI>England</HI>) and in the next place, I &s;uppo&s;e they will be inform'd from him, how the <HI>Phenix</HI> Friggot was regain'd; whereupon, if they finde it ju&s;tice, or rea&s;on, doubt|le&s;&s;e they will give immediate order, that the great Duke &s;hall make the Dutch &s;atisfaction in the be&s;t manner he may, and what he doth therein, they will &s;o &s;tand to it, as that his Highne&s;&s;e &s;hall be no &s;ufferer. But now le&s;t Capt. <HI>Appleton</HI> &s;hould not arrive in <HI>England</HI> &s;o &s;oon as the ordinary; if it plea&s;e you, I will adde to what I have formerly wrote the Councel of State, &s;uch a full relation about the manner of that Friggots &s;urprizall, as that it mu&s;t give a clear light to the under&s;tanding of that bu&s;ine&s;&s;e; and I will pre&s;ume once in 45. or 48. days the great Duke &s;hall have a punctual an&s;wer, &s;o that he will &s;ee what they will do in that matter, which referres to the <HI>Phenix</HI> Friggot, and &s;o we parted at that time.</P>
<P>About two or three dayes after he &s;ends for me a&s;hor, and I could not deny but attend accordingly: for you mu&s;t note, although this were a Treaty, it was a forc'c one; (on my part) I was con&s;train'd to attend what this Secretary of State would &s;ay to me, and could no more (as I conceive) avoid hearken|ing to what he &s;hould &s;ay, then I could prevent the great Duke from putting one of our Mariners to the Torture (at our enemies in&s;tance.) I know not for what cau&s;e, next to the reverence we did him, and re&s;pective &s;alutes we made him at pa&s;&s;ing by, except it was, becau&s;e he had heard two or three dayes before that the Dutch commanded in our Channel, and were like to be the &s;tronge&s;t &s;ide.</P>
<P>But when Mr. <HI>Longland,</HI> and my &s;elf came thither; he
<PB N="103" REF="54">asked us, whether we had thought on what he had before mo|tion'd concerning giving &s;ome &s;atisfaction about the <HI>Phenix</HI> Friggot?</P>
<P>An&s;wer was made in words, to this effect.</P>
<P>We have wrote by this ordinary expre&s;&s;ely to know what the States plea&s;ure is in that bu&s;ine&s;&s;e, doubtle&s;&s;e they will give the great Duke &s;atisfaction about it; He an&s;wered, oh the great Duke would have pre&s;ent &s;atisfaction that he might &s;top the mouthes of the Dutch.</P>
<P>It was replied by us, the Dutch had taken a great parcell of Tinne which belonged to our Nation, out of French ve&s;|&s;els and others, even under the Cannons of his Highne&s;&s;e, im|porting upon the matter as much as the <HI>Phenix</HI> Friggot was valued at; and be&s;ides, we told him the Dutch them&s;elves bragg'd every day upon the place, that they had taken an Engli&s;h Ship from under the Ca&s;tle of <HI>Lant,</HI> and another from under the Ca&s;tle of <HI>Allicant,</HI> and &s;o were made good foure times the value of the <HI>Phenix</HI> Friggot already; and in our o|pinion it could not but render his Highne&s;&s;e among all Prin|ces to be very partial, if he looked for further &s;atis|faction.</P>
<P>In fine, he told us plainly, the great Dukes plea&s;ure was, that one of the States Ships &s;hould be di&s;armed, and have her Rudder and Sailes taken a&s;hore; To that his conclu&s;ion, we made an&s;wer thus: The great Duke is Patron, and he may do what &s;eemes him good; but one day an account mu&s;t be given of the damage that the State of <HI>England</HI> &s;hould re|ceive thereby, or words to that purpo&s;e, and &s;o we were di&s;|mi&s;s'd.</P>
<P>About this time one of the great Dukes Subjects Ve&s;&s;els going out of the <HI>Mould</HI> with &s;ome provi&s;ions for our Ships at Port <HI>Ferraro,</HI> as &s;oon as ever &s;he was about the <HI>Mould</HI> head, was chas'd by the Dutch <HI>Tartan,</HI> and without the Ma|&s;ter had cut away his Boat, and bore his quick-&s;ide in the wa|ter, &s;he had been &s;napt; and yet (upon the matter) no no|tice was taken of it.</P>
<P>This piece of in&s;olency added to all the re&s;t, cau&s;ed me, with the advice of friends to write to the great Duke the&s;e n&s;uing lines.</P>
</LETTER>
<LETTER LANG="eng">
<PB N="104" REF="55">
<HEAD>May it plea&s;e your Highne&s;&s;e,</HEAD>
<P>WHereas it hath been your plea&s;ure to honour me with a credential Letter, bearing date the eighth in&s;tant; foure dayes &s;ince I receiv'd it by the hands of that Right Worthy and Honourable per&s;on, your Secretary of State, from whom I was inform'd of what was his me&s;&s;age from your Highne&s;&s;e, and unto whom I returned &s;uch a mode&s;t, and humble an&s;wer, as I hope hath been &s;atisfactory.</P>
<P>Among other commands, the Councel of State (ap|pointed by authority from the Parliament of <HI>England,</HI>) hath required me (as well out of re&s;pect of what I oblig'd my &s;elf unto your Highne&s;&s;e for in my former Letters, or humble addre&s;&s;es, as for other ends) in no ca&s;e, nor upon any pre|tence to a&s;&s;ault the Dutch in the Ports, and Chambers of your Highne&s;&s;e, except they fir&s;t began with us the Engli&s;h, which commands, or orders of theirs, according to my duty, I &s;hall readily render obedience unto.</P>
<P>But, may it plea&s;e your Highne&s;&s;e, &s;ithence our enemies the Dutch do continually per&s;i&s;t and go on, without rendering that re&s;pect which is due unto your Highne&s;s with|in your Ports and Chambers, and lording it over all men of &s;undry Nations, do undertake to &s;earch their ve&s;&s;els, and being dexterous at the trade of plundring, in hopes of &s;uch lucre, cha&s;e Barkes, and Ve&s;&s;els pa&s;&s;ing about the <HI>Mould</HI> head, and that as well of the Subjects of your Highne&s;&s;e, as el&s;e how.</P>
<P>I do therefore humbly di&s;oblige my &s;elf from what I have been formerly by Letter, or otherwi&s;e engaged unto; and being it's judg'd they have given the fir&s;t a&s;&s;ault, &s;ince the re|ceipt of the commands before mentioned, I do hope it will not be taken ami&s;&s;e from your Highne&s;&s;e; although, (when ever power is in the hand of us the Engli&s;h,) we may take the
<PB N="105" REF="55">advantage upon them in a reciprocal manner; and &s;o wi&s;h|ing your Highne&s;&s;e all increa&s;e of &s;plendour and happine&s;&s;e, I &s;hall &s;ub&s;cribe my &s;elf, as I am,</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Dated on board the</HI> Leopard <HI>in</HI> Legorn-Mould, <DATE><HI>the</HI> 4/14th <HI>of</HI> February, 1652/3.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><HI>Your Highne&s;&s;e very humble &s;ervant,</HI> Rithard Badiley.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</LETTER>
<P>SO that in ditto Letter I gave his Highne&s;&s;e to under&s;tand, that although I would be very careful to obey the com|mand I had receiv'd from the authorty of <HI>England</HI> not to di|&s;turbe his Port, without the enemie began with us fir&s;t; &s;ince it was very per&s;picuous to every rational man, the Dutch had begun with us, I humbly withdrew my word, and crav'd leave to do what was reciprocall to the actions of the Dutch, whenever a power came into my hands.</P>
<P>Now my rea&s;ons for writing in that manner, were the&s;e briefly.</P>
<P>Fir&s;t, whereas (peradventure) the great Duke might think that <HI>England</HI> was lo&s;t, becau&s;e the Dutch commanded in our Channel at the pre&s;ent; yet I judg'd not our Nation in &s;o low a condition, but that I &s;till expected a Fleet of Ships to our a&s;&s;i&s;tance: And it was done that (at lea&s;t) he might be &s;o much amus'd about it, as to believe I had private intel|ligence of &s;ome Friggots that were departed from the We&s;t of <HI>England,</HI> whom I might expect every moment, and thereby be enabled to de&s;troy them in his Road, who had layen &s;o long at the door, watching for our de&s;truction. In fine hereby I thought the great Duke would be &s;omewhat &s;tartled, and begin to open his ear to what was propounded by me, &s;o ju&s;t and equal, and not appear &s;o partial as he had done all along, &s;ince he heard of &s;ome defeat we had by the Dutch el&s;ewhere.</P>
<PB N="106" REF="56">
<P>Secondly, I did it, that the Dutch (who were like to hear of it immediately) might be in &s;ome mea&s;ure mortified; and for ought I knew in&s;tead of per&s;i&s;ting, to have the Ammuni|tions, Sailes, Rudder, and Ship <HI>Leopard,</HI> or <HI>Bonavanture</HI> to be con&s;ign'd into the hands of the great Duke for their u&s;e, they might be put into &s;ome pannick fear, and have thoughts of removing either to meet their eight &s;hips about the mouth of the Gulfe of <HI>Venice,</HI> and at <HI>Me&s;&s;ina,</HI> or el&s;e to go We&s;t|ward about <HI>Telloon</HI> to joyne with five good Ships of Warre they had that way, le&s;t when the &s;trength came out of <HI>Eng|land</HI> that I expected thence, they might be ruin'd where they rode.</P>
<P>The 19th. a returne of that Letter was pre&s;ented me by his Highne&s;&s;e Secretary, who having intimated he was at lei&s;ure, and had &s;omething to declare unto me from his Ma&s;ter, Mr. <HI>Longland,</HI> and my &s;elf waited on him accordingly; but fir&s;t the Letter followeth.</P>
<LETTER LANG="eng">
<HEAD>Tran&s;lated out of Italian.</HEAD>
<P>I <HI>Have &s;een that which you have exprest unto me by your Let|ter of the</HI> 4/14th. <HI>of this moneth concerning the Negotiation by me remitted unto</HI> Montemagni <HI>my Secretary of State to treat with you; and you &s;hall under&s;tand by my &s;aid Mini&s;ter, that which &s;hall be needful for me to reply, and confirme unto you of my good will, &amp; of the hope which I have that you will yet contri|bute on your part to the things of common &s;atisfaction, &amp; for the good effecting of the Treaties which are in hand: And if they &s;hould not take effect, I &s;hall declare the re&s;olutions which I am con&s;train'd at this pre&s;ent to take, to my great di&s;plea&s;ure; but in the mean time, I will pre&s;erve every de&s;ire to give you consent, &s;erving the Parliament of the Republick of</HI> ENGLAND, <HI>to which I &s;hall alwayes be glad to &s;hew my firme and
<PB N="107" REF="56">&s;ingular ob&s;ervance:</HI></P>
<CLOSER><SALUTE>Our LORD pro&s;per you.</SALUTE>
<DATELINE><HI>From</HI> Florence <DATE><HI>the</HI> 28th. <HI>of</HI> February, 16<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">2.</DATE> <HI>from the</HI> In|carnation.</DATELINE>
<SIGNED>At your plea&s;ure, <HI>The great Duke of</HI> Tu&s;cany.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
<TRAILER>To Capt. <HI>Richard Badiley,</HI> Admiral of the Ships of the Republick of <HI>Eng.</HI> in the <HI>Mediterranean</HI> Sea.</TRAILER>
</LETTER>
<P>And when I had read it, he ask'd me why I recall'd my word? It was an&s;wered, the Dutch violated the Port every day, and I hoped the Great Duke would not take it ami&s;&s;e if I could when I had power in my hands de&s;troy them that were not onely originally the di&s;turbers thereof, but per&s;i&s;ted therein from day to day; However, &s;aid I, his Highne&s;&s;e may be confident I &s;hall be at his command, &s;o that I &s;hall not proceed any further (in point of giving any di&s;turbance to his Port) then him&s;elf &s;hall give liberty.</P>
<P>But, &s;aith Ditto Secretary, <HI>What will you do in order to what I spake to you the other day, about Con&s;igning one of the States Ships into the hands of the Great Duke, untill the Duke had &s;atisfaction?</HI></P>
<P>I an&s;wered, It is not in my power willingly to deliver up one of the States Ships to the Duke, or any other Prince or State, without &s;pecial order from my Ma&s;ters in <HI>England; Well then,</HI> &s;aith he, <HI>His Highne&s;&s;e plea&s;ure is, you &s;hall depart his Port, what &s;ay you to that?</HI> I replyed, that rather then I would willingly give con&s;ent, that any of my Limbs &s;hould be cut off, I would fight for the whole Body as long as I could.</P>
<P>To which he made a further Reply, and &s;aid; <HI>It was the Great Dukes order to tell me, that I mu&s;t depart his Port, or</HI> Mould <HI>with the Engli&s;h Ships of warre, that were there once in ten dayes.</HI></P>
<P>To which I made this mode&s;t Reply, in effect, as I &s;aid before, The Great Duke is Patron, he may do what &s;eemeth
<PB N="108" REF="57">him good, and although he knoweth be&s;t what he hath to do; yet in my opinion to require us to go out into the mouths of our enemies, when as they &s;hall be three to one, would be an Eclip&s;e to his Honour among all the Princes in <HI>Eu|rope,</HI> and I in&s;tanced unto him the carriage of the King of <HI>Portugal</HI> towards Prince <HI>Rupert,</HI> having once promi&s;ed him protection in his Port; and proceeding in that di&s;cour&s;e, I told him, that as I was employed under the Generals in a &s;ervice near <HI>Lix.</HI> for the reduction of our revolted Ships, &s;o I was a &s;pectator of what pa&s;t there, and although our General made it his reque&s;t to that King again and again, that a day might be appointed for the forementioned Ships to be commanded forth, that &s;o we might keep the Honour of his Port unviolated, and yet di&s;pute for our own in the Sea; However he would not be prevailed withal about it: For, &s;aid he, it would not &s;tand with his Honour to command &s;uch forth into the enemies hands, when there is oddes, who had craved his protection, and notwith&s;tanding all the time our Ships were under his command, we carried our &s;elves civilly, not &s;earching and plundering the ve&s;&s;els of <HI>Portugal,</HI> and Lording it over all, as the Dutch did in <HI>Legorne</HI> Road; wherefore how can the Great Duke in point of Ho|nour command us forth to gratifie &s;uch in&s;olent enemies as ours were? yet, &s;aid I, the above named practice cannot be commended in the aforementioned King, becau&s;e the Ships we then looked after, were the Common wealths of <HI>England,</HI> paid for with their own money, onely mo&s;t of the per&s;ons entru&s;ted with them, revolted from their due obedience, which alters the ca&s;e between their condition and ours, as much as may be; yet it holds out thus much, that Princes have had much re&s;pect to their Honour, in commanding tho&s;e with whom they are in amity to go from under their protection into the mouthes of their enemies, when they judge them&s;elves in no capacity for an engagement.</P>
<P>To all which di&s;cour&s;e the Secretary an&s;wered; all the fa|vour I could expect was the la&s;t, and the fir&s;t day &s;hould not be reckoned into the number of the 10 days.</P>
<P>And yet once again I replied, &s;ithence the great Duke be|gan
<PB N="109" REF="57">to be aweary of us, and would nece&s;&s;itate us to go forth; I earne&s;tly de&s;ired one thirty, or fourty dayes to gather to|gether our Ships at <HI>Venice</HI> and <HI>Naples,</HI> adding, his Highne&s;&s;e the Great Duke mu&s;t needs be acquainted what a va&s;t ch<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">age the State of <HI>England</HI> hath been at to impre&s;s &s;hips into their &s;ervice at <HI>Venice,</HI> and el&s;ewhere; and if we be commanded out, and con&s;equently be forc't to engage ere tho&s;e &s;hips can come to joyne, all their charge would be to no purpo&s;e; and I added, that is no &s;mall matter.</P>
<P>For but the other day having occa&s;ion to conver&s;e with the Admirall of the Great Dukes Gallies, he could tell me what &s;hips we had fitting here and there, as well as my &s;elf, and computed our pre&s;ent charge to be (when lea&s;t) an hundred and &s;ixty thou&s;and Crownes.</P>
<P>In fine, again and again I am &s;ure more then &frac12;. a dozen times, with all earne&s;tne&s;&s;e I did humbly beg but for thirty or fourty dayes time to get our &s;hips together, and that the di&s;pute about the <HI>Phenix</HI> Friggot might make no ob&s;truction; the Secretary was proffer'd by Mr. <HI>Longland</HI> at my in&s;tance, as much money as the Friggot &s;hould be judg'd worth, that he might do what he would withall. But &s;eeing all our endea|vours were rendred fruitle&s;&s;e, and that the &s;aid Secretary would harp upon no other &s;tring then what is before de|noted about giving us the fir&s;t and the la&s;t day, I took my leave of him; and con&s;idering how more guns had been late|ly brought down, and planted again&s;t our &s;hips; to what end I could not tell, except it were to further our de&s;truction, if we were not gone at the time &s;et us; and calling to minde how vain a thing it was ever counted to lie in the ditch, and not &s;tirre to get out; I laboured in tho&s;e two or three dayes I remain'd at <HI>Legorn</HI> to put our &s;hips in as good an equipage as I could, and went to Port <HI>Feraro</HI> to fetch up the re&s;t of our &s;trength that was there; and &s;eeing how unready our &s;hips were, and unlikely that even our &s;hips &s;hould get up to <HI>Legorne</HI> to &s;uccour our friends before our &s;et time would be expired: I wrote the Great Duke a few lines, the co|py whereof followeth.</P>
<LETTER LANG="eng">
<PB N="110" REF="58">
<HEAD>May it plea&s;e your Highne&s;&s;e,</HEAD>
<P><HI>LA&s;t Saturday I receiv'd tho&s;e lines which your Highne&s;&s;e was pleas'd to honour me withall, bearing date the</HI> 28th. <HI>of the la&s;t moneth; and although I heartily wi&s;hed the di&s;pute a|bout the</HI> Phenix <HI>Friggot, might have been ended with the Treaty; yet having by &s;o notable a &s;tratagem regain'd the &s;aid Ve&s;&s;el, I could no wayes be &s;atisfied, how I could an&s;wer it to tho&s;e that im|pos'd this tru&s;t in me, to part with her again willingly, or any of the States &s;hips for her.</HI></P>
<P><HI>And in conclu&s;ion when I &s;aw what was your Highne&s;s plea&s;ure concerning the limitted time for our going forth, I did immedi|ately labour that a very ready compliance might have been given unto on my part, and I hope it &s;hall take effect accordingly; on|ly I humbly beg, that if our &s;hips be not out of</HI> Legorn-Mould <HI>untill the la&s;t day, and then the winde and weather be again&s;t us, it may be look'd upon, (as really it is) a ju&s;t impedi|ment.</HI></P>
<P><HI>I am only in fear, that becau&s;e we cannot ride quietly one dayes time in the Roade of</HI> Legorne, <HI>to take in balla&s;t, &s;ome of our &s;hips may over&s;et, in ca&s;e a gale of winde &s;hould come down upon them before the di&s;pute be over.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Your Highne&s;&s;e may al&s;o be pleas'd to take notice, whereas by my former Letter of the</HI> 4th. ult. <HI>I humbly di&s;oblig'd my &s;elf from what I had formerly promis'd in reference to the Dutch, and &s;uch as related to them, or at lea&s;t begg'd leave to act in a recipro|call manner, &s;eeing them &s;o exceedingly to domineer.</HI></P>
<P><HI>I do a&s;&s;ure your Highne&s;&s;e upon my reputation, it was occa&s;ion'd in regard of the in&s;olency of our enemies, that upon the knowledge thereof, they might be mortified, or curb'd in &s;ome mea&s;ure, and con&s;equently be brought (by the Treaty) to what is judg'd rea|&s;on: For &s;eeing no other meanes like to prevaile, I conceiv'd by that expre&s;&s;ion they might be ca&s;t into no little fear, thinking we had more force at hand, then they were aware of.</HI></P>
<PB N="111" REF="58">
<P><HI>It hath been alwayes clearly my opinion, that if any two per|&s;ons come into a private mans hou&s;e, there to refre&s;h them&s;elves, they ought to be civil in that place, much more in the Chambers of Princes; wherefore (for my own part) according to the com|mands I have receiv'd from my Ma&s;ters in</HI> Engl. <HI>(if the Dutch will agree to conformity, and in a reciprocal maner promi&s;e the &s;ame) I &s;hall render your Highne&s;&s;e all maner of due re&s;pect, and give no kinde of di&s;turbance to your Ports, e&s;pecially in</HI> Legorn-<HI>Road; but as I &s;uppo&s;e, all within the</HI> Malora, <HI>to be your Port, and Chamber; &s;o I &s;hall neither directly, nor indirectly meddle with the enemies of our Nation, nor any that belongs to them; neither &s;hall I at any time, either weigh Anchor from the &s;aid place, to give cha&s;e to any that &s;hall be coming in, or going out, or be di&s;obedient to any of tho&s;e ju&s;t commands your Highne&s;&s;e &s;hall be plea&s;ed to lay upon me, as well by withdrawing out of &s;ight with all the Engli&s;h Fleet, for three or four dayes more or le&s;&s;e, as el&s;e how.</HI></P>
<P><HI>And I do verily believe, the Parliament of</HI> England <HI>will al|wayes give order that the like civility be rendered unto your Highne&s;&s;e, by all other their Commanders that &s;hall follow me in|to the&s;e parts; that &s;o the flouri&s;hing Trade of</HI> Legorn, <HI>that hath been &s;o eminent for many years, might meet with no impediment from the Engli&s;h.</HI></P>
<P><HI>If the Dutch will not hearken to &s;uch a corre&s;pondency now, in regard they &s;uppo&s;e they are &s;trong enough to ruine us, &s;urely they may be deceived: We are eight men of Warre in this place, and</HI> Longone, <HI>and &s;ix in</HI> Legorn, <HI>which bears no great di&s;propor|tion to what &s;trength they had in</HI> Legorn <HI>ye&s;terday.</HI></P>
<P><HI>And if it plea&s;e your Highne&s;&s;e to &s;end anothor Me&s;&s;enger to the Admiral of the Dutch, to know whether they will render that re&s;pect unto your Highne&s;&s;e in your Ports, which the Eng|li&s;h promi&s;e to do:</HI></P>
<P><HI>For their encouragement, and to take off all maner of trouble from your Highne&s;&s;e for the future; I have thought of &s;ome Propo&s;itions, which I &s;hall fully comply withall in each particular herein in&s;erted.</HI></P>
<P><HI>To the performance whereof, I believe Master</HI> Longland, <HI>a publick Mini&s;ter of the Common-wealth of</HI> England, <HI>will become
<PB N="112" REF="59">oblig'd with me, as</HI> per contra <HI>it's de&s;ired Signeur</HI> Van de Stra|den, <HI>&s;hall oblige him&s;elf together with</HI> Van Gallen <HI>before &s;ome publick Mini&s;ter of your Highne&s;&s;e; So leaving what is herein denoted unto your Princely wi&s;dome, I &s;hall adde no more, but that I am</HI></P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your Highne&s;&s;e very humble Servant, RICHARD BADILEY.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>Certain Propo&s;itions &s;ent the great Duke.</HEAD>
<P>IN ca&s;e the Admiral of the Dutch Fleet will oblige him&s;elf, that without mole&s;tation or impediment, I may quietly en|ter into the Road of <HI>Legorn</HI> with the eight &s;hips, and a Pota&s;h that are now with me, and will be ready to &s;et &s;aile once in 48. houres; and &s;hall, as is before denoted, &s;uffer us to ride there untill our other &s;hips come out of the <HI>Mould,</HI> and take in their balla&s;t; Then <HI>per contra</HI> I &s;hall reciprocally become oblig'd, not to mole&s;t the Dutch in any kinde whil'&s;t they are there; and that bu&s;ine&s;&s;e being accompli&s;hed, I &s;hall go without the <HI>Malora</HI> as &s;oon as he plea&s;eth; and be|ing there, &s;hall freely &s;tay until his &s;hips come within Musket-&s;hot of ours, there to fight it out like men, &s;o &s;hall we not be any way in&s;trumentall to di&s;honour, or give any di&s;turbance to the Port of that Prince who hath granted us both refre&s;hing from the fruits of his Countrey.</P>
<P>Secondly, whereas the Dutch did lately give out, that they would fight the Engli&s;h when they were &s;even to &s;even; le&s;t it &s;hould now be objected, if this Squadron and that at <HI>Le|gorn</HI> meets, we &s;hall be too hard for the Dutch, then thus; if it plea&s;eth them to accept of the proportion, there will be granted them to advance, one in every &s;even &s;hips; &s;o that if we be 14, they may be &s;ixteen; and le&s;t they &s;hould &s;ay &s;ome of our &s;hips are bigger then theirs; there will be allow|ed them to advance (when the men are poll'd) one man in
<PB N="113" REF="59">every &s;even, &s;o that there may be nothing to object again&s;t &s;uch endeavours as hath been us'd to pre&s;erve the great Dukes Port from violation.</P>
<P N="3">3^l^y. In ca&s;e we the Engli&s;h have the better, and then come into <HI>Legorn</HI> Road with all our Fleet, and finde riding in that place &s;ome Dutch Merchant &s;hips, and it may be &s;ome of their Men of Warre, that may be laim'd, or otherwi&s;e they need not haile into the <HI>Mould:</HI> we the Engli&s;h &s;hall not &s;hoot a &s;hot, nor meddle, nor make with any of them with|in the <HI>Malora,</HI> provided the Dutch will oblige them&s;elves <HI>per contra,</HI> not to mole&s;t the Engli&s;h (in a reciprocal manner) to what the Engli&s;h promi&s;e in reference to the Dutch.</P>
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<HEAD>My rea&s;ons for writing this Letter, and propounding &s;uch Propo&s;itions, were briefly the&s;e.</HEAD>
<P>FIr&s;t, I was in very great hopes, that by this means the great Duke, who had expre&s;t him&s;elf in former times with &s;o much bitterne&s;&s;e again&s;t Capt. <HI>Hall,</HI> and Capt. <HI>Appleton,</HI> for di&s;turbing of his Port, as he call'd it, although what they acted was far without &s;hot of his Cannons; (as I have under&s;tood) would now have his ends in keeping of his Port unviolated, &amp; we &s;hould have had our end in like manner by our conju~ction: I was more e&s;pecially per&s;waded of obtaining &s;uch an effect, as is before denoted, con&s;idering that at this time, &s;uch a number of the Captains &amp; others of the Dutch were in his cu&s;tody, for threatning to &s;hoot down his Palace; that rather then <HI>Van Gallen</HI> would have been without their help, he would have agreed to what I had &s;o rea&s;onably propounded; And I am yet apt to believe, the great Duke had never freed the Dutch out of pri&s;on, nor yet have given them liberty to a&s;&s;ault our &s;hips within Musket-&s;hot of his <HI>Mould</HI>-head, without the Golden Pi&s;tols had flowne apace.</P>
<PB N="114" REF="60">
<P>Secondly, Although I had expre&s;t &s;o much before to his Secretary of State, that no pretence might be laid upon me by the great Duke for withdrawing my word, I thought fit to open my &s;elf to him, &s;o freely and fully as I did by the &s;aid Letter, to the end that he might be in a manner con&s;train'd to &s;hew forth the noblene&s;&s;e of his minde; and that reality of affection, which in all his Letters he pro|fe&s;&s;ed to bear unto the Parliament and Republick of <HI>Eng|land,</HI> by &s;aying,</P>
<P><HI>My Mini&s;ters have been endeavouring to per&s;wade</HI> Van Gal|len <HI>to &s;igne the Propo&s;itions; but he will not be prevail'd withal, and therefore,</HI> Badiley, <HI>take the thirty or fourty dayes, that the other day you were &s;o earne&s;t with my Secretary for, that &s;o you may meet your</HI> Venice <HI>&s;hips, and come up, or do what el&s;e &s;eem|eth be&s;t for your advantage: Thus &s;hould I have known what to have done.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>The great Dukes Letter followeth.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>SIR,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P><HI>JN an&s;wer to your Letter receiv'd this day, I cannot but tell you, that although the times are &s;o di&s;turbant, I &s;ee your re|&s;olution and diligence is, that tho&s;e &s;hips may depart which are under your command at</HI> Levorno; <HI>and I being de&s;irous to plea&s;ure the Parliament and Republick of</HI> England, <HI>am contented to pro|long your time, for the departure of your &s;hips above mentioned, till the eighteenth day of this pre&s;ent moneth, that they may have a con&s;iderable time for their getting out, not di&s;&s;enting from what you in yours advi&s;e; that if winde and weather do not pre&s;ent, and your &s;aid &s;hips cannot depart out of my</HI> Mould <HI>of the Port of</HI> Le|vorno, <HI>&s;hall &s;u&s;pend till &s;ome other day.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Now unto the Propo&s;itions which you imparted to me, that I might take notice of, concerning the &s;hips which are under your command for engaging with tho&s;e of the States General, it is not a thing convenient for me to meddle in.</HI></P>
<PB N="115" REF="60">
<P><HI>I do accept of what you mention, not to offend my Ports with your &s;hips again&s;t the Hollanders, which promi&s;es I do expect from you to be fulfill'd, and doubt not but to have the like from the Hollanders, in &s;uch manner, to the content of both parties; and for the time to come all quietne&s;&s;e, and liberty &s;hall be had in Ports, and the Almighty prosper you. From</HI> Florence, <HI>the</HI> 9th. <HI>March,</HI> 1652.</P>
<P><HI>I hope that this favourable weather will cau&s;e the departure of your &s;hips out of my</HI> Mould <HI>of</HI> Levorno, <HI>&s;o that you need no obligation for the regaining the Friggot.</HI></P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>At your plea&s;ure, The great Duke of <HI>Tu&s;cany.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
<TRAILER>To Capt. <HI>Richard Badiley.</HI> Admirall of the &s;hips of the Republick of <HI>Eng|land</HI> in the <HI>Mediterranean</HI> Sea.</TRAILER>
</LETTER>
<P>IT's well I have this Letter under the great Dukes hand, for otherwi&s;e peradventure more &s;uch confident people then the&s;e who had a hand in that Remon&s;trance of a fight neer <HI>Legorn:</HI> would have outfac'd me, and have indeavoured to make me believe, we might have &s;taid longer in <HI>Legorn,</HI> if we would: It's true, if winds and weather had not given our &s;hips leave to come out as they did, then they might have &s;taid: But if once winde and weather gave leave, they have not liberty to &s;tay an hour above the prefixed time, that I can finde.</P>
<P>I &s;uppo&s;e (in the foregoing pa&s;&s;age, which relates to the great Duke of <HI>Tu&s;cany,</HI>) I have made an&s;wer to the &s;ub&s;tance of <HI>Signeor Mantemagni</HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s relation, and di&s;covered the falla|ciou&s;ne&s;&s;e that is in divers pa&s;&s;ages thereof, as al&s;o in the copies of the Letters from the afore&s;aid Duke unto my &s;elf, and <HI>per Contra</HI> of mine to his Highne&s;&s;e.</P>
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<HEAD>Yet there is one or two fallacious pa&s;&s;ages more that have &s;lipt me, which I mu&s;t needs give an&s;wer to.</HEAD>
<P>In <HI>Pag.</HI> 114. he tells a meer &s;tory, (and you know what that is) &s;aying the in&s;olency of the Dutch, caus'd by the unacquaintedne&s;&s;e of the time of our departure (after we knew it) con&s;train'd the great Duke to put divers of the Dutch Captains and others into pri&s;on: Whereas by &s;ufficient te&s;timony it will be made appear, the Dutch knew of the time when we were to be thru&s;t out of Port &s;ome days before us, and to that purpo&s;e had opportunity of hyring Felucas, and &s;ending them away with Dutch Captains or other Offi|cers in them, this way and that way to call in their &s;hips of &s;trength together; and being an eye-witne&s;&s;e of it my &s;elf, I wondred what was a brewing, until the occa&s;ion thereof was taken away by my being order'd to depart in ten dayes accor|ding to what hath been before &s;ignified.</P>
<P>Whereas it's &s;aid, I might have &s;taid four dayes longer, it hath been &s;ufficiently prov'd by the great Dukes own Letter, and I know not what better proof to make, I could not have &s;taid an hour longer, without winde &amp; weather had hindred.</P>
<P>And to &s;ay I came out by my own election, is a &s;tory of the like nature with the former, and that is &s;ufficiently prov'd by what is before mentioned.</P>
<P>But at length he that hath &s;pread abroad in Print <HI>Signeur Montemagni</HI>'s relation, thinkes he hath &s;truck the naile on the head, &s;aying, we had &s;ufficient advantage again&s;t the enemie, if our fight had been better manag'd.</P>
<P>I would here appeal to all knowing men in the World, whether 'twas not likely to have been better manag'd, if the dealings of the great Duke, and his Mini&s;ters with us had not been like unto &s;uch as had betray'd us by the en&s;uing parti|culars, that may be added to what is before de|noted.</P>
<PB N="117" REF="61">
<P>FIr&s;t, As appeares by my Letters of the 2/21th. of <HI>Mar.</HI> wheras the great Dukes Secretary promis'd the Dutch Captains and others &s;hould not be let out of pri&s;on, unle&s;&s;e their Ad|miral would &s;igne the Propo&s;itions, for keeping the great Dukes Port unviolated; and yet afterwards, when as we were come &s;o neer, that there was no going back. I &s;ay now to let the Dutch out of pri&s;on, and tell us plainly they would a&s;&s;ault us, when our Ships &s;ternes were to the <HI>Mould.</HI></P>
<P>Secondly, Whereas the great Duke and his Mini&s;ters have many times told me, that if the Dutch at any time &s;hould affront us within reach of his Cannons, all the force they could make, &s;hould be di&s;charg'd upon them; and yet not|with&s;tanding when it came to the point, &s;hould &s;uffer our &s;hips to be &s;urpriz'd within little more then Musket-&s;hot of their workes, and not &s;hoot a &s;hot in their de|fence.</P>
<P>Thirdly, whereas the great Duke wrote me in the clo&s;e of his Letter dated the 9th. of <HI>March,</HI> he hop'd that fair winde and weather would put all our &s;hips out of the <HI>Mould</HI> of <HI>Le|gorn,</HI> that &s;o the di&s;pute about the <HI>Phenix</HI> Friggot might be over; and yet notwith&s;tanding that his Colonel who com|manded <HI>Legorn,</HI> and all that Sea-coa&s;t (as a &s;ubordinate Mini&s;ter under him) &s;hould give me to under&s;tand the 13th. of <HI>March &s;tilo novo,</HI> that if the Engli&s;h &s;hips of War had any further occa&s;ion of their <HI>Mould</HI> of <HI>Legorn,</HI> the <HI>Phenix</HI> Frig|got mu&s;t be re&s;tored, which was as much to di&s;courage us as po&s;&s;ible could be.</P>
<P><HI>For I would make but this one querie in the clo&s;e of all.</HI></P>
<P>ADmit inferiour Officers &s;hall have liberty to a&s;per&s;e their Commander in chief, (when as he &s;hall think fit to call them off,) becau&s;e of &s;o great a di&s;proportion between the enemies and them&s;elves. as is three or four to one, which was our ca&s;e in <HI>Legorn</HI> Roade.</P>
<P>And although &s;ome peradventure will &s;ay, what although you had as knowing Pilots on board as any were in the Fleet, and
<PB N="118" REF="62">(howbeit) their opinion was if you had engaged any further about the <HI>Leopards</HI> relief, the great &s;hips would be a ground together, and hazard the lo&s;ing of all that way; yet you &s;hould have forc't the doing of what was in your own thoughts, with your &s;word in the faces of them.</P>
<P>Again, admit it be granted a Commander in chief ought to pro&s;ecute the &s;ervice he is upon, although the Com|manders of mo&s;t of the nimble &s;hips &s;hould not act accord|ing to what was required of them, but neglect their duty, &s;o that he &s;eeth he hath little or nothing to tru&s;t to but his own &s;hip; and howbeit the Marriners on board had prov'd formerly like a rotten &s;taffe, which deceives him that leans on it, he ought &s;till to carry on the &s;ervice, above all hope.</P>
<P>Yet when the Commanders of one or both our Friggots, &s;hall tell him their Ma&s;ts were &s;hot through, and like to fall every moment, (as they were) con&s;idering we could not be furni&s;ht in <HI>Legorn</HI> without &s;urrendring the <HI>Phenix</HI> Frig|got; would he not have been reputed as mad a man as any was in the world, to have renewed the engagement at that time?</P>
<P>For &s;uppo&s;e we could have reliev'd the <HI>Leopard,</HI> and not have been on ground, and brought her off, to be &s;ure by that time, all the Dutch Fleet, twenty and odde &s;aile, that were &s;tanding away to the Southward under our Lee, would have got the weather-gage of us; and if &s;o, I think every one will grant, that although we might have defended our &s;elves, yet it would have been an hundred to one, but on of the Frig|gots maimed Ma&s;ts, or &s;ome others would have gone by the board; and con&s;equently as the winde was, we mu&s;t have gone into the great Dukes <HI>Mould</HI> for a &s;upply; which if we had, we were told beforehand, (notwith&s;tanding the great Dukes Letter) the <HI>Phenix</HI> Friggot mu&s;t be deliver'd.</P>
<P><HI>Now as things &s;tood.</HI></P>
<P>Although it might have been more to the honour of the Nation to &s;ave the <HI>Leopard,</HI> then the <HI>Phenix;</HI> yet in a word,
<PB N="119" REF="62" MS="y">I &s;uppo&s;e it would not be more to the profit of the Nation, if all things be con&s;idered.</P>
<P>TO winde up all, when that fallacious Remon&s;trance of a fight neer <HI>Legorn</HI> came to my hand, &s;eeing the great Duke, his Secretary, and I know not whom be&s;ides, (a|mong &s;ome of our Captains intere&s;t) all woven together; I thought of tho&s;e words, a threefold cord is not ea&s;ily broken, how much le&s;&s;e that which may be compared to a &s;evenfold cord, to draw on mi&s;chief (if po&s;&s;ible) on the heads of the States faithful Servants; yet a little skill, where there is hone|&s;ty and integrity, may make it like unto rotten tow; whether it hath or no, I &s;hall not query.</P>
<P>But in my proceeding in this &s;hort di&s;covery of Truth, I &s;hal only &s;ay thus much by expre&s;&s;ing what is before denoted; I have been cautious that none might be offended, except it be &s;uch who&s;e contentious &s;pirits have &s;ufficiently di&s;covered them&s;elves: And although that &s;ome may think Sir <HI>Walter Rawleigh</HI>'s words concerning tho&s;e times, are like to prove true in all ages, (He that traceth Truth too neer at the heeles, may chance to have it kick out his teeth;) For my part, I am of another opinion, and do yet hope better of the pre&s;ent &s;ea&s;on.</P>
<P>But as a Gentleman expre&s;t him&s;elf not long &s;ince, upon another occa&s;ion; I am in a land of miracles, meaning in <HI>England;</HI> I was thinking whether it may not be added, are we not in an age of miracles?</P>
<P>That a Commander of a Force havein been &s;ent forth &s;hould be &s;o neglected, and as if he had been &s;ent abroad for d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word">, (although I confe&s;&s;e I had better hopes) and be|ing in forreigne parts, &s;hould there conflict with as many hazards and troubles, as almo&s;t was po&s;&s;ible for any
<PB N="120" REF="63">man to undergo in the time; and yet when he &s;hall come to his owne Countrey, hoping to finde that as good Harbour after a &s;torme, &s;hall <HI>per contra</HI> be made liable to contempt from &s;uch as have ab&s;olutely di&s;obeyed commands, and have been the cau&s;es of all the damage which hath befallen the Nations in tho&s;e parts, in which he hath been, and few &s;eem to take notice ot it. To which I need adde no more, being</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your &s;ervant as before. <HI>Ri. Badiley.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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