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Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II
… 15/25. Rotterdam. 4. to Henry Smith, Holborn, London. De Ruyter and Tromp make it out that they have had the victory; … reduced to 30 sail, obliged to divide and fly, with De Ruyter and Tromp in chase of the two parts of it. Now it … their vessels; the whole city is working diligently. De Ruyter is holding a council of war on his ship. Hopes soon to …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II
… from the fleet, which has 60 stout ships ready to sail. De Ruyter has anchored, and drums are beating for all to come on … the Dutch ready to put to sea with 60 stout ships. De Ruyter and the Vice-Admiral have anchored at the head of 26 … war is to be held on board the fleet. Is to dine with De Ruyter's son, and hopes to get to know what passes. June 25, …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II
… because the Dutch have 5,000 French soldiers on board. De Ruyter and Trump expect to surprise the English in the Nore, … part of the Scotch regiment. The captain was on board De Ruyter, and says his fleet is 66 fighting ships and 8 fire-ships; De Ruyter says he will go to the Nore, and fight the English. …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II
… Ostender have passed the roads; they were both on board De Ruyter, but vary in their reports; the enemy lies between … after the English fleet, but it has not yet appeared. De Ruyter dated the pass which he gave the Frenchman who brought …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II
… overboard his commission, with letters and advices to De Ruyter, so that he may be looked upon as a pirate if thought … fit; he had three cables and two anchors intended for De Ruyter's ship, but now they are ordered for the London which … persuasion, grounded on many dreams, that he shall kill De Ruyter with his fusee; will undertake that Sir Robert Holmes …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II
… an account of the Dutch fleet, and the opinion which De Ruyter himself has of our force. All are the more impatient … of the strength which the Dutch hasten to send to De Ruyter, and because of the French King's order to De Beaufort … An Ostender, who was taken and kept three days on De Ruyter's ship, says there are 99 men-of-war and 60 smaller …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II
… most of the men saved. The Royal Charles twice engaged De Ruyter's ship, and he gave way the second time, but she was much disabled; at 4, De Ruyter began to run, but with great gallantry endangered … Fan-fan, made for him last week at Harwich, to row to De Ruyter's, and with her two little guns, ply him for an hour …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II
… Banckaert is thought to be drowned, and that De Ruyter has lost 180 men; their ships are much disabled, and … is sent from the Rupert into a ketch of three guns. De Ruyter's ship, the Seven Provinces, is sunk, and his escape … 55. Jo. Smith to Williamson. It is reported that De Ruyter is slain, and the people in Holland in great …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II
… from Boulogne to Flushing for tidings, reports that De Ruyter is dead of his wounds, and that the Hollanders are … The sickness increases daily. News from Calais reports De Ruyter dead. Aug. 19. Plymouth. 45. John Clarke to … Navy Comrs. The attempts to intercept the harbouring of De Ruyter and the [Dutch] East Indiamen at Norway was …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II
… that came ashore. An Ostender reports that on Monday De Ruyter lay off Ostend, with 90 men-of-war. The sickness has … then come out; that Van Tromp was kept at the Hague and De Ruyter's lieutenant put in his place; and that all the …