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Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William III
… on the advice I have received that the preparations at Dunkirk are for a descent upon England with a considerable … blocked up the French men-of-war and transport ships at Dunkirk and Calais. His last letters were dated yesterday off …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William III
… Windsor. (At Portsmouth): Exeter, York, Pembroke, Dunkirk, Greenwich, Jersey. (At Plymouth): Pendennis, … out the ships with the utmost diligence. They write from Dunkirk that the great preparations there left no doubt of a … them into condition to go to sea again. Advices from Dunkirk of the 15th say they make no doubt of a war. Four …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William III
… of the 9th, giving an account that Du Bart had gone out of Dunkirk, as was supposed, by the West Channel. It was … Benbow to consult the Dutch commanders now with him before Dunkirk, what ships of force may be spared from that service, … whether he should be employed in some attempt upon Dunkirk or Calais. The Recorder brought a paper that Mr. …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William III
… of Orford delivered in a list of the main fleet and of the Dunkirk squadron. Ordered that it be sent to Mr. Blathwayt, … by Mr. Meisters for service in the last expedition against Dunkirk, for which he has not yet been paid, and also on … ship Medway, Captain Cleveland, had brought to Kinsale a Dunkirk privateer called the Pontchartrain, of 48 guns, 10 …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William III
… and that their cut-throats are to come over, some from Dunkirk and some by the way of Ostend. We hear likewise of a rendezvous of Jacobites at Dunkirk, as if something were forming there. You that are so … I need go there. On my way back I shall spend a day seeing Dunkirk. I enclose a letter from the Prince de Vaudemont from …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William III
… demands restitution of a French ship, the Levrette of Dunkirk, taken, as he alleges, by H.M.S. Experiment on 313 …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William III
… the petitioner was in all the expeditions, from that of Dunkirk to that of St. Martin de Rez; 2 he piloted to burn …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William III
… excuses himself: 'tis likely he's disgusted. Advices from Dunkirk, May 10, say M. du Bart was there expecting orders. … they will have none till it's determined for peace or war. Dunkirk, May 8, N.S. The Sieur Jamain, commander of a … Queenbrough, giving an account of the naval force at Dunkirk and Ostend. May 15. At 3 a.m. anchored in Callis …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William III
… hold a correspondence with them, to get intelligence from Dunkirk and other parts of France and to send it over by …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William III
… Erle with some of his officers was taken by a Dunkirk privateer several days after the time for ceasing … application that the French plenipotentiaries wrote to Dunkirk for the release of the hostages given by Erle to … back; the other, Captain Cadogan, is still detained at Dunkirk, upon pretence that the privateer that took them has …