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Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William III
… little wind at S.S.E. and S.E., but the narrowness of the channel making it a kind of difficulty, renders it pretty … Bart had gone out of Dunkirk, as was supposed, by the West Channel. It was considered the first care ought to be to form … for making Colonel Holt a privy councillor in the Leeward Islands drawn upon a minute of Council. [ S.P. Dom. Entry …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William III
… who, I suppose, keep their correspondence in their former channel. I do not know that any communication is given to … men of war have sailed from Spithead to cruize in the channel. Sir George Rooke continues with the great ships at …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William III
… [I said] that Havana was merely a fortified place, and the islands had no mines, which were all on the coast or …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William III
… and some other fines and forfeitures from the Leeward Islands, lately under the command of col. Codrington; but, … for a grant of all the fines and forfeitures upon the said islands, and the place of escheater and receiver of his … 13 days after hostilities ought to have ceased in the Channel. I send, by his Majesty's command, a copy of the …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William III
… to the Dey, and he positively forbids their going into the Channel. [ Ibid. pp. 4256.] May 27. Hampton Court. The same …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William III
… governor of that place and lieutenant-general of the islands, is unfit for service. They have writ to court about … his whole squadron to join M. de Coetlogon at the American islands. So the French will have in those parts 24 ships of …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William III
… 500 l. He assisted in apprehending the governor of the Islands of Scilly, and served the King in Ireland and …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William III
… King William, Benjamin and Tonqueen, had arrived in the Channel; but it soon proved to be an invention and trick of … the men-of-war that met with Pointy's squadron in the Channel at their return from the West Indies, was to be tried …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William III
… regiment, which they are to land in the Leeward Islands. Mr. Norris, his Majesty's ambassador to the Great …