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Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William and Mary
… and they should meet them they would not only destroy the merchantmen but the convoy; for, by all our advices, the … The English were for securing the whole by going with the merchantmen and men-of-war for Cadiz, and there remaining as … for the Strait's mouth. I am mightily concerned for the merchantmen, and all my life time never had anything that …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William and Mary
… in Ireland. At St. Malo they have lately taken 12 rich merchantmen from the English one of them having 80,000 pieces …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William and Mary
… ordered to accompany you, to Cadiz in Spain, and see the merchantmen under your convoy safe into that port. (2) If you … squadron, the remaining Dutch men-of-war, and such English merchantmen as are ready to sail; he is likewise to be … days and no longer, and then to take under their convoy merchantmen homeward bound, calling at Majorca, Alicant, …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William and Mary
… write:Yesterday sailed eastward the Woolwich with several merchantmen from the Barbadoes under her convoy; at the same … men-of-war) spied a fleet of about eleven sail of French merchantmen off the coast of Normandy, with a Danish ship of …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William and Mary
… through the Sound, as convoy to a fleet of English merchantmen, the following three ships refused to salute the … that there are only two English ships there, and they are merchantmen. The captain of the Postboy, sent by your … the other four, I suppose, were prizes or French merchantmen. This morning our frigates chased them; the …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William and Mary, 1695
… under sail to cruize in the Soundings, leaving the clog of merchantmen here which were under my care, I have only time … in the command paid his respect and struck, as the merchantmen had done before. Resolved that Thurston be sent …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William III
… are ordered he does not know. There were fifteen sail of merchantmen there, of twelve, fourteen and sixteen guns …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William III
… Rochelle, which they left on the 5th of May with two other merchantmen bound for Kilbeque [Quebec ?] in Canada, under … mizen-topmast head; the signal was made to speak with the merchantmen, who were ordered, in case of separation, to make … about 2,000 people. There were about thirty sail of merchantmen in the port, the biggest of them carrying about …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William III
… with sugar, etc. She sailed thence in company of fifteen merchantmen the 20th October last, with their convoy, the …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William III
… with H.M.Ss. Berwick and Mary to Cadiz, and to take merchantmen and store ships under his convoy. On the same day …