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Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William and Mary
… Jan. 2. London. News letter. There is nothing new from Brest since the return of Mons. De Umphreville with his … has gone to Belle Isle and Rochefort, the rest are at Brest, being intended for transporting forces into Ireland. … de Lauzun and Mons. De la Hacquett have not yet gone to Brest, but the six regiments intended for Ireland are …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William and Mary
… Dunkirk, which we took. The commander informs me that in Brest there are three sail of three-deck ships with some … and suffers no merchant ships to go anywhere but from Brest into the Channel, as far as Dunkirk. He likewise says …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William and Mary
… Rochefort, in order to join five other great ships from Brest, and to cruise, this winter, on this side of Cape …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William and Mary
… of Commissary Butts, and was ordered by him to sail from Brest to Crosiques, and there to wait for him; but his ship …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William and Mary
… received from France tells of great naval preparations at Brest; the French fleet, when augmented with ships from … I sent you news that the Dutch and English fleets lie in Brest Road, so that the French cannot go out till Monsieur … Spain, he was taken prisoner by the French and carried to Brest; and praying that either Frances or Jaques Dioquell may …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William and Mary
… is given from France of 28 frigates almost ready at Brest to go to Ireland, of which none are said to exceed 36 … and the transport ships at present from any insult from Brest, yet if the French should think it of more importance …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William and Mary
… King has given orders for the immediate fortifying of both Brest and St. Malo as strongly as they are capable of being … being wholly taken up of finding us at St. Malo or Brest, insomuch that it would be a surprise to them, and I …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William and Mary
… therefore we may be sure that upon joining their fleet at Brest they have made this haste to fight before Killigrew …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William and Mary
… one of the transport ships which carried the Irish to Brest, and likewise the copy of a letter, from the … of the English fleet, and that the Toulon fleet were at Brest. I am just going to sail in the galley myself, there … encompass what we propose to do either at St. Malo, or Brest, or both, so that the omitting to endeavour it will be …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William and Mary
… Paris Gazette of 13 June ( N.S.), 1693, the paragraph from Brest of 6 June ( N.S.) 1693. A vessel is newly arrived which … barks are come in which met the fleet 100 leagues from Brest, holding that course, so that it is not to be doubted …