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<P>A LETTER From the Fleet, with a DIVRNAL Account of the Military affairs between the Engli&s;h and the Dutch, From Friday the 3d. of <HI>June,</HI> till Thur&s;|day the 9th. of June.</P>
<P>RELATING The taking and firing many of the Dutch &s;ince the late fight, the blocking up Flu&s;hing and other harbours, the landing of men at the T<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">xel and in Zealand, and the op|po&s;ition made by the Hollanders.</P>
<P><HI>London,</HI> Printed by <HI>J. C.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>From our Fleet riding upon the coa&s;t of Holland came as followeth.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>SIR,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_THe &s;ignall victory which the Lord hath been plea&s;ed to give over our Enemies, I hope will rai&s;e up the hearts of all Gods people in <HI>England</HI> to prai&s;e him, not onely in words, but in deed &amp; truth; and I wi&s;h that it may be recorded among&s;t the chief of tho&s;e mer|cies that God hath be&s;towed upon his Saints, that all po&s;terities to come may give him honour, and that the pre&s;ent age may not be &s;o &s;tupid as they have been, let them take notice of, and keep in perpetual memory tho&s;e which the Lord hath wrought even in our dayes; and likewi&s;e be a&s;&s;ured that he will goe forward with his worke untill he hath perfected the &s;ame, notwith|&s;tanding
<PB N="2" REF="3">all the Trea&s;ons, Plots, or Con&s;pirtions of men; God hath taught us notable Le&s;&s;ons of this al|ready, of which I &s;hall onely minde you of one or two and proceed to Intelligence.</P>
<P>The very day that the Treaty began at <HI>Vxbridg,</HI> that &s;ame day we lo&s;t a &s;trong gari&s;on, but the very day that we brake off Treating with the Kings party, a &s;trong Ca&s;tle was delivered up unto us. And that very day that a Letter came to the late Parliament from the <HI>Dutch</HI> with &s;ome overtures of peace, one of the princi|pall &s;hips belonging to this Commonwealth was con|&s;umed by fire.</P>
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<HEAD>A Diurnall Account of &s;ome proceedings between the Engli&s;h, and the Dutch, from Fryday the third of June, till Thur&s;day the &s;eventh of June, <HI>1653.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THe third of June in the evening. The Enemy making all the &s;aile he could to get homewards, the able&s;t of our &s;hips which &s;uffered lea&s;t damage in the two dayes &s;ight; made after the Dutch fleet, and did good execution upon them for many Leagues pur&s;ute and &s;ome &s;hips of ours that had received pre|judice in their Ma&s;ts and Tackling, together with our wounded men (which were about 236) and about 1130 pri&s;oners which we had taken of he Dutch) were &s;ent away for the Engli&s;h &s;hore. Gen. <HI>Blake,</HI>
<PB N="3" REF="3">and Gen. <HI>Monke</HI> Anchered this night between <HI>O&s;t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">nd</HI> and the <HI>Wellnigs.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>The names of the &s;hips which came in with Gen. Blake were the&s;e.</HEAD>
<ITEM><HI>The E&s;sex Frigot,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Hamp&s;hire Frigot,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>The William,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>The Eagle,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>The Culpeper,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>The the<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">th whelpe,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>The Phenex,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>The Storke,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>The Hopefull Luke,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>The Imployment,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>The Pro&s;perous,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>The John and Abigale,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>The Swan.</HI></ITEM>
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<P>June the forth. In the morning Inteligence was brought that <HI>Tromp</HI> was neere <HI>Flankenburgh,</HI> &amp; it was thought he would make way towards <HI>Flu&s;hing</HI> which is one of the be&s;t Ports they have. This day we had brought into us &s;everall Dutch ve&s;&s;els, and Scouts were &s;ent forth &s;everall wayes for making a further di&s;covery of &s;uch of the Dutch as had e&s;caped away in the fight into any of their Ports, as likewi&s;e to catch up any of their Merchantmen that &s;hould be &s;liping into any of their Harbours, and it was re&s;olved by a Councell of War that our maine Fleet &s;hould follow the pur&s;uit of <HI>Tromp</HI> and &s;uch as had e&s;caped with him, and &s;o towards <HI>Flu&s;hing.</HI></P>
<P>June the fift. We were againe within &s;ight of &s;ome of the Enemy, but he crept away by the <HI>Sholes</HI> and <HI>Sands</HI> where we could not come at them; &s;omething
<PB N="4" REF="4">like the Highlanders in <HI>Scotland</HI> who &s;ave them&s;elves by their inacce&s;&s;able holds.</P>
<P>This day a view was taken of many hundred &s;ick &amp; wounded &s;ouldiers &s;ouldiers of the Dutch who were taken by our fleet, and care taken for &s;etting them on &s;hore in their own Country, and they being in pain and mi&s;ery are likely to give their other Country men the true&s;t information after their vapouring again&s;t Dover, which (though it &s;avoured rather of impudent in&s;olency then of valour, yet) was printed a huge and mighty victory at the Hague.</P>
<P>June 6. Our Fleet came near the Texel, and the &s;ick and wounded &s;ouldiers of the Dutch before men|tioned, were put into long boats and other ve&s;&s;els (upon their parole) and lanced out to go on &s;hore, and ma|king forth towards the land, they (being de&s;cried from the Ca&s;tle) the Dutch let fly many great guns at their own men, and upon this they received a great allarum into the Country, about which time the main body of our fleet appeared within &s;ight, at which the people cri|ed out they were betrayed and undone, and in &s;uch an amazement they continued.</P>
<P>The next day we did not onely take many of their &s;hips near their own harbours, but fired others, and &s;ent many hundred great &s;hot on &s;hore among&s;t them, <HI>and now judge you whether we are not even with them for their attempt upon Dover;</HI> and we are upon another de|&s;ign to find them work at home, not doubting but by the next you will hear that &s;ome of their &s;trong holds are in our po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion.</P>
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<P>This day &s;ome of our Scouts brought in two Dutch ve&s;&s;els, and divers water &s;hips and others came from the Engli&s;h coa&s;ts with &s;upplies of &s;uch nece&s;&s;aries, as we &s;tood in need of they al&s;o bring us news that many &s;upplies are coming after which will be very &s;ervice|able for carrying on of the work in hand.</P>
<P>The greate&s;t part of the Dutch fleet which e&s;aped is is gotten into the harbour at Flu&s;hing, where we hope to keep them from doing further mi&s;chief upon the &s;eas again&s;t England.</P>
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<HEAD>A Letter from Dover, dated, the 9th. of June.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>SIR,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>THe&s;e three or four days together many &s;hips which came out of the River of Thames, pa&s;&s;ed this way to|wards our fleet which is on the Coa&s;t of Holland, wherein went a con&s;iderable number of &s;ouldiers, and a great quan|tity of powder, &s;hot, and Ammunition, as likewi&s;e a great number of Shovels, Spades, Pick-axes, and other nece&s;&s;aries for land &s;ervice, we hear al&s;o that the like &s;upplies are go|ing to them from &s;everal other parts belonging to this Com|monwealth. Some wounded &s;ouldiers are gone up to London and others remain here under cure, the State having ta|ken &s;pecial care for &s;ending down able Chyrurgians into the&s;e parts to cure &s;uch as &s;tand in need of their help.</P>
<P>This day arrived a ve&s;&s;el here which landed &s;everal per&s;ons, which &s;ay that they have been with our fleet, &amp; one of
<PB N="6" REF="5">them reports that Gen. Blake and Gen. Monk, are before Flu&s;hing, and be heard at his coming away that &s;ome of our men were landed in a kind of a &s;mal I&s;land near Flu&s;hing in Zealand, where no hor&s;e could get to them, and if we could keep it, it would conduce very much to the effectual blocking up of that City, and &s;ecuring their &s;hipping in the harbour. Some of our fleet is &s;ent out &s;everal ways to di&s;|cover the preparations and motion of the enemy, and we hear they are in a great di&s;traction among them&s;elves, and Trump whom not long &s;ince carried a Broom in his Top-Ma&s;t to &s;weep the Seas, dares not &s;o much as &s;weep his door, &s;carce daring to &s;hew his head. The Officers in general ac|cu&s;e one another, and the common people blame not onely them but their high and mighty <HI>Hogen Mogens.</HI> I tru&s;t the Lord will put a &s;udden period to the&s;e wars, to the prai&s;e of his great Name, and the good of his &s;ervants that de&s;ire to walk uprightly before him, which is the prayer of</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your a&s;&s;ured friend, T. Leigh.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE><DATE>9 June, <HI>1653.</HI></DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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