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The Fleetfails for Ma-jorca.

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ther to the Bashaw, to let him know-how ill he took his perfidious Dealing.The eighth,they set Sail,being probablyin Want of Provisions for Majorca, witha Design to stay there ’till Spring. Thefive and twentieth, towards Night, eightor nine Sail of Burks fell into the Fleet,whom they chased and made diversShot at them ; But Night coming on,and they sailing better. than the Englishthey escaped, and the next Morningwere out of Sight.

Th e six and twentieth, they put intoAlicant- road, hoping there to receiveAdvice of a Supply of Provisions fromEngland, but were deceived. Theseven and twentieth, at Night, the Rear-Admiral’s Squadron put to Sea, andpursued two Burks , who had but threeHours before taken two Flemmijh Ships,whose Men were escaped in their Boats:But the nine and twentieth, he returned,without Success. Between this and thetenth of January, 1621. several Shipswere sent out, at different Times, inPursuit of Pi rats, but to no Purpose.

The twelfth, a Packet of Letterscame from Carthagena, bearing Datethe fourteenth of December, from Eng-land-, With Advice, that there wereProvisions for six Months.* for the wholeFleet, sent out of England ; And theMessenger, who brought the Packet,brought, at the sameTime, Advice, thatthey were arrived at Mallaga.

The twenty-first, there came a Flem-mifh-boM, with fifteen Men, on Boardthe Admiral, who being chased by theBurks, off of Cape Martin, left theirShip. This Day, as well as several ofthe foregoing and ensuing Days, diversShips were Tent out in Quest of theBurks ; But all returned without havingseen any.

The five and twentieth, Captain Ho-pes was difpatch’d with Letters to Eng-land, and, the seven and twentieth, theRemainder of the Fleet set Sail, leavingonly the Marmaduke behind, whoseCaptain and Master were both sick onShoar.

The eight and twentieth, they metwith seven Sail of Flemmings, all Menof War, under Command of the Admi-ral of Zealand, who went on Board theEnglish Admiral, the next Day, andtold him he had two and twenty Ships ofWar under his Command,.which he haddivided into Squadrons, and employedthem to cruise, some without, and somewithin the Streights.

The sixteenth of February, being in 1620.the Bay of Gibraltar, the Supply of Meets withProvisions from England joind them, ^oi&fatconsisting of the Mercury, of two Hun- Gibraltar.*dred and forty Tuns, sixty-five Men,and twenty Brass Guns, under theCommand of Captain Pet ; And theSpy, of one hundred and sixty Tuns,five and fifty Men, and eighteenBrass Guns, commanded by EdwardGiles, together with two MerchantShips.

From this Time to the nine and twen- Jrrfzes antitieth of April, when the Fleet arrivedin the Road of Majorca, little or nothingremarkable happen’d, excepting thatbeing some Time, after their Departurefrom Gibraltar, at Alicant, the Admi-ral there bought three Brigantines,which rowed with nine Oars on a Side,hired a Pol acre, of one Hundred andtwenty Tuns, which was said to be anexcellent Sailer, and prepared diversNecessaries for Firing of the BurkijhShips, within the Mold of Algiers,which was the first Attempt they pro-posed.

The one and twentieth of May, 1621. ^

after having sufficiently watered, and giers "refreshed at Majorca, they came to An-chor again at Algiers, where the Fleetwas berth’d in the following Manner:

The King’s Ships, and the . Golden Ph.e-nix, came. to an Anchor, .upon a Southand North-Line, the Admiral riding inthe Midst of them, East of the South-End of the Mold. Next to the Admi-ral, on the Nor th-Side, came to an An-chor the Reformation, the Golden Phenixon the South, the Gonvertine, on theSouth-Side, the PheAx.and the Ant Hope,on the North-side the Reformation, theVice-Admiral innermost on the South-side, the Rear-Admiral outermost, onthe North-side.

The King’s, Ships being thus berth’d,the Rest of the Fleet came to a-stern ofthe Admirals of their respective Squa-drons, and there anchored, the Windbeing then Westerly. The next Day,six of the Merchant Ships were orderedto ply about to the Westward near theShoar, to prevent any Pirat's coming in,betweeh the Fleet and the Shoar. Pre-parations were, likewise, immediately Preparafmade, f°r executing the design which-?"was projected or hiring theShips m the i a the Mold,Mold, which was, proposed to be donethat Night. TwoShips taken from theBurks, one of a Hundred and the otherof sixtvTuns, were to be the Instruments

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