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Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II
… in the King's Channel, and both striving for the weather gage, fought, but the Dutchman tacking, went away. The French … all their merchantmen within them, ours having the weather-gage, the wind at S.W., Lord Ossory, in the Resolution, the …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II, 1683
… by him that his mother was an English woman named Gage, which was the reason he was admitted into the English … lived awhile at Brussels with his mother, daughter to Col. Gage, who was Governor of Oxford for the late King, and …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II
… if the wind continue S.E., to gain the weather gage of the enemy. Postscript.The back of the Goodwin is the …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II
… came near the fleet yesterday. They ride now in the off gage of us. We want fair weather to attack our neighbours, … body of their fleet, tacked upon us and got the weather gage, whereupon Sir E. Spragg tacked too, and got the wind …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II
… no danger of them, because they have so much the weather gage of them. I hope the 400 men you mention to come from … with the stem, the wind S.S.W. The English had the weather-gage, and stood this course till midnight. About nine lights … about two leagues asunder, both striving for the weather gage, the one to keep it which was ours, and the other to get …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II
… a fine fighting gale, but at present they have the weather gage. I am going immediately on board, and in the meanwhile … continued so ever since. Though the Dutch had the weather gage at the beginning, yet, as far as we can perceive, we … about seven, the Dutch attacking, and having the weather gage, some of our fleet being, I heard, scarce clear of their …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II
… over to the French coast we shall gain the weather-gage of the enemy, and possibly be upon them before they …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II, 1678
… King has thought fit that Sir William Goring and Sir John Gage, committed close prisoners to the Tower for high …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II
… and report. With note that the parties concerned were John Gage, customer, William Jones, comptroller, and William …