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Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William III
… to wait on his Majesty as soon as he had carried the ships into the Goree. I received a letter yesterday from Sir … of our merchants, whose effects were seized in the Danzig ships by John de Bart. They have not yet been able to obtain … at Paris, and Mr. Greg's at Copenhagen, where the ships were brought in and sold with all the goods for the use …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William III
… Aug. 31st, 1701, to proceed to the westward with H.M. ships in the margent, 2 as also a squadron belonging to the … the wind continued at S.W., blowing hard, several of our ships split their sails. We continued our course to the … the 9th blowing very hard, which very much shattered our ships (both Dutch and English), as splitting of sails, …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William and Mary, 1695
… with, or send after them, at least an equal number of ships, notwithstanding what ships Mr. Russell may have sent home before. The Lords of the … half pay, on account of commanding such a number of ships, they answered the rule of the Navy was to make that …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William III
… the Admiralty be put in mind of ordering such of the great ships "to be sent about" as are designed for the river. [ … of the coinage; moreover, the charge of the victualling ships has been very dear, so that the cost of the victualling … greatly augmented, and now, instead of four months, the ships in the river are ordered to be victualled for five …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William III
… Sir Charles Hedges brought his report about the Swedish ships. He told the lords he gave all the dispatch he could to … to the King, particularly in the case of the two Swedish ships he lately discharged. He heard from Sir William … had written from Stockholm, that there were six or seven ships unquestionably belonging to the Swedes. They themselves …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William III
… might not facilitate the redemption, especially if the ships under your command had the good fortune to take any … regulated to give one another gun for gun. Other French ships were sailing from port to port, who were very … of August to convoy home a considerable fleet of merchant ships. I suppose they bring away a good deal of the bullion …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William III
… allowed us by Parliament hardly sufficient. We confess the ships' carriages for want of storehouses lie in several … or that a gun wharf should be built on another place. The ships' carriages are generally kept on board, but while the ships are refitting must lie ashore. This can be of no …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William III
… parts, we have sent to H.M. for his leave to despatch five ships more to the West Indies, that are sheath'd for that …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William III
… 7, 1696.] Reasons for granting letters of mart to trading ships, offered to the House of Commons. Printed. 1 p. (See … in Portugal, for London, being under sail, descried four ships making towards them, amongst which was a Holland … ship up, told your suppliants that the three other ships were Turkish men-of-war and would seize both our men …