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In the same Ship and Year, SirGeorge Cartaret carried the Earl ofArundel, asAmbassador, to Helvoetfuys,where Van "Trump, the Dutch Admi-ral, was then riding at Anchor, whotook in his Flag, altho’ Sir George worenone himself. Many more Instances mightbe given of the Dutch , and other Na-tions, striking to our Flag, even in theBaltick, and the Mediterranean. Ishall occasionally mention some hereaf-ter.

When, at anyTime, thePerfbrmanceof thisDuty has been refused,Satisfactionhas been demanded for the Affront, andCare has been taken to have it acknow-ledged by Treaties. The thirteenthArticle or that concluded between Oli-ver Cromwel and the Dutch, in the Year1653. may suffice for an Instance.

" Item, the Ships and 'Vessels of the" laid United Provinces, as well Ships of" War, and fitted out for Repelling the", Force of Enemies, as others, which<f shall, in the Britijh Seas, meet with" any of the Ships of the State of Eng-" land shall strike their Flag, and low"er their Top-fail, in such Manner, as" hath been observed in any Time past," or under any former Government" whatsoever.

Care has been since taken to have' the like Article inserted in subsequentTreaties with the States General, in oneof which, viz. in 1673. is ascertainedhow far to the Northward and Southwardthis Duty is required to be paid ; viz.from Cape Finis er re to the Middle Pointof the hand Van Staten in Norway.

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Naval Expeditions and Transactions of /^English, with several other*Events, during the Reign of King Edward II.

E DWARD II. surnamed ofCaernarven, because he was born* there, succeeded his Father, onthe seventh of July, 1307. withsuch an universal Joy and Applause, aswas even somewhat injurious to the Glo-ry of the deceased King: And Walfing-ham adds, that he ascended the Throne(non tarn Jure hereditario, quam unani-mi ajfenfu Procerum & Magnatum) not somuch by Virtue of an hereditary Right,as by the universal Consent of the Peersand Nobles.

T h e ensuing Year Edward went intoFrance, and at Boulogne was married toIsabella, Daughter of Philip the Fair,King of France, to whom he had beencontracted before his Father’s Death.

This Marriage, as Walsingham ob-serves, was performed with extraordina-ry Magnificence, there ■ being presentat the Solemnity the four Kings ofTrance, Navarre, Almain and Sicily,to which Echard adds, with threeQueens,besides the Bride, and a glorious Con-course of other Princes, Noblemen andLadies.

At his Return, he was crowned, to-gether with his Queen, on the four andtwentieth of February.

Holinshead fays, they arrived inEngland the seventh of February, and,coming to London, were joyfully receiv-

ed of the Citizens, and on the five and 1308.twentieth Day (or, as Sir Thomas de laMore writes, the eight and twentieth)they were solemnly crowned by the Bi-shop of Winches er, the Archbishop ofCanterbury, not being then in the King-dom.

From the Time of his Coronation to 1313.the Year 1313. Edward's whole Time ^

was taken up in his Disputes and War hiswith his Barons, about his Favourite, an-l withGavejlon; and from this Year to the Scotland.Year 1318. with his Wars in Scotland.

In all this Time nothing happened thatcan properly take Place in this History,excepting the Birth of the glorious PrinceEdward, on the thirteenth of November1312.

In the Year 1318. the Scots, having 1318.made an Attempt to conquer Ireland, ‘The Scotsand having long before sent over someTroops for that End, Edward sent a i re j and .powerful Supply thither, under theCommand of the Lord Roger Mortimer.

The King of Scotland went over himselfto head his Troops, but they being de-feated before his Arrival, and his Bro- g ul arether, who had commanded them, taken seated.and beheaded, he was obliged to giveover the Enterprise. The Continuationof the War with Scotland, till 1324.when a Truce was concluded for thir- I 3 2 4 "teen Years, and the King’s TroublesM with