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Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II
… Dutch fleet about 3 this morning, 13 leagues E.S.E. off Orford Ness, scattered some 5 or 6 leagues. It was a very …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II
… of a regiment, which command extends on the sea from Orford Haven to Yarmouth town's end, being 32 miles in length …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II
… Seth Thurston to the Navy Commissioners. Today being off Orford Ness we bore off to see what a ship in the offing was, … were engaged with him an hour before he bore away to sea, Orford Ness then bearing N.W. and by N. Then, seeing a fleet …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II
… Dutch fleet steering N.E., being a good offing to sea off Orford Ness. They seem a great fleet. About seven this …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II
… what the meaning is. On Wednesday about 10 leagues east of Orford Ness, they saw 10 Dutch men-of-war and two fly-boats. … Eastward, being within the Galloper, five leagues S.E. of Orford Ness. I fear we shall get but few pilots. With note … more after twelve or one. They were about 10 leagues off Orford Ness. The wind now blows S.W., a fresh gale. I saw a …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II
… about noon. The Essex and Elizabeth ketches, meeting off Orford Ness, came this morning into the Rolling Grounds. … to the same. Very early this morning we spied a sail off Orford Ness, which we stood off to. When we came up with him, …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II
… 8 a.m. The Henrietta yacht, about 4 miles off Alford (Orford) Church and Castle. Sir Jeremy Smyth to the same. Being under sail within sight of Alford (Orford) Church and Castle about seven this morning, we made … of 50 guns each, brought into the river, one sunk off Orford Ness, of what force not known, one flagship sunk after …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II
… frigates, and two fly-boats of them some ten leagues off Orford Ness, which he supposed had lost the fleet. He says …