530 Charles L Naval Expeditions , Ac. of the English, Book III*

1,642- fnany Warnings against the like At-tempts, on either Side, for the future.During this Time, nothing memorablehappened at Sea, in which the Englishhad any Concern, but two or three tri-vial Actions, of which I shall just takeNotice, in their Order of Time.

1643. About the Middle of February,16^Clarendon, the Queen came back from Holland , inThe Queen a State's Man of War, assigned by theHolland^ ^'Ee of Orange, with others for herConvoy. She landed at Fur ling ton-Bay,upon the Coast of Torkjhire. The se-cond Day after the Queen’s Landing,Batten, Vice-Admiral to the Earl ofIs cannonad- Warwick (who had waited to intercepted by Vice- herPassage with four of the King’s Ships,)Battens arrived in Burlington- Road, and findingthat Her Majesty was landed, and Shelodged upon the Key, he, bringing hisShip to the nearest Distance, being veryearly in the Morning, discharged abovea Hundred Cannon (whereof many wereladen with Crofs-bar-ffiot) for the Spaceof two Hours, upon the House were herMajesty was lodged; Whereupon Shewas forced out of Her Bed, some of theShot making Way thro’ Her own Cham-ber, and to shelter Herself under aBank in the open Fields.

The Earl of This Year, Prince Morrice besiegingWarwick Exeter, with the King’s Army, thea Relief[s C Parliament ordered their Admiral, theExeter, bat Earl of Weirwick, to attempt the Re-without Sue-I[ e f of j tj W] - t h his Fleet: But this At-ce J s " tempt was not only without Success,

but so unfortunate, that it discouragedthe Seamen : For after three or fourHours pouring their great Shot, fromtheir Ships, upon the Land-forces, theTide falling, the Earl of Warwick felloff with his Fleet, leaving three Shipsbehind him, of which one was burnt,and the other two taken from the Land,in View of his whole Fleet.

The ft range Escape of some English-men from_ Algiers.

1644. The Contriver of this wonderful E-Harris s Col. scape was one William Okeley, who hadA William' been taken in the Year, 1639. on BoardOkely car- the Ship, Mary of London, and carriedTied Captive Captive to Algiers. He had the goodto Algiers ; p ortline t o have a kind Master, and be-ing trusted with a Sum of Mony totrade with, kept a Shop, and fold strongWaters, Tobacco, &c. out of the Pro-fit of which he was only obliged to givehis Master a certain Sum weekly. How-

ever, ,not being able to bear the §644-Thoughts of Slavery, he was contihu - Proje&sally projecting how to make his Escape; E f ca P s -And judging seven Persons would beenough to manage and carry on theDesign, he opened his Mind to JohnAnthony, a Carpenter, who had been aSlave fourteen Years; William Adams ,who, during eleven Years Slavery hadlearnt Brick-making; John JepUs, aSailor, who had been Captive fiveYears, and to another Carpenter, whohad likewise been a Slave five Years.

There were two more, whose Businessit was to wash small Cloths by the Sea-side, who had a Share in carrying onthe Work, tho’ they did not go withthem.

These Persons, having fixed their Eu dAs &Resolutions to attempt an Escape, pro-vided a Piece of Timber, about twelveFoot long, to make the Keel of a Boat,which was to be wrought in Okeley 'sCellar ; They then took Care of Tim-bers or Ribs, every one of which wasmade of three Pieces, and joined in twoPlaces, in such Manner, that each Jointbeing fastened by two Nails, in Holesso contrived for that Purpose, wouldmake an obtuse Angle, and so inclineas near a semi-circular Form, as Occa-sion required. For the Cloathing of thenaked Ribs of their Boat, instead ofBoards they bought as much strong Can-vas, as would cover it twice over, uponthe Convex of the Careen, as also asmuch Pitch, Tar and Tallow, as wouldmake it a Kind of Tarpawlin Sear-cloth,with Earthen Pots to melc their Mate-rials in.

Their Boat being fitted up in thisManner, and then taken in Pieces a-gain, the next Difficulty was how toconvey it out of Town, and hide thePieces in a secure Place. It was, how-ever, not without Danger of Discovery,at Length, carried out by Pieces, andhid at the Bottom of a Hedge, near theSea-side, whither they had likewise con-veyed a Piece of Canvas for a Sail, anda Pair of Oars, such as they were, madeof a Couple of Pjpe-staves. For Provi-sion they laid up a small Quantity ofBread, and had two Leather Bags orBottles filled with Water. Every Thingbeing thus ready, they appointed theirRendezvous at a young Fig-tree, near ,where the Pieces of their Boat wereconceal’d. Repairing thither at Night,they soon got it put together, andadded the young Fig-tree, which:

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