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Length, so hotly press’d, on every Sidethat they fell into the utmost Disorder,and being entirely routed, were glad tosave themselves by Flight among theFlats, near Newport , from whence theyafterwards got into Zealand.
Six of the Enemy’s best Ships werefunk, two blown up, and eleven Shipsand two Hoys taken, with thirteen(some fay fifteen) Hundred and fiftyPrisoners taken, six of them Captains ofNote, (m)
Af ter this Defeat, the States con-tinued their private Overtures of Peaceto Cromwell , who had now, as we haveseen, got rid of his Parliament, andmanaged all Affairs himself. Theywere received very loftily by Cromwel ,
and with some Reprehension for their 1653.Wanr of Wariness, in entring into sounequal a Contention, yet he declareda gracious Inclination to a Treaty. TheDutch , at the same Time, used, how- But in fitever, their utmost Diligence in fitting Ttmeant a strong Fleet, and the States pro- derabh Fleetmised great and ample Rewards to t0 Sea ‘those who should contribute towards it,by repairing to their Service, in Orderto recover, if possible, their lost Re-putation, by another Battle, {n) By thelatter End of July, Van ‘stromp put toSea, with ninety-five Ships, from Zea-land, being soon after joined by DefVitte , with five and twenty more, fromthe 'Texel. (0)
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( m ) Notwithstanding all the Pains theDutch were at, to conceal or extenuate their Losses(as among other Instances, the allowing of theLossof but seven or eight Ships, in these two Actionsis one), Yet they appeared evidently enough tothe Eye of the whole World, even by the Com-plaints and Remonstrances of their own Admi-rals. Van Tromp no Scruple of declaring,
before the States of Flushing ; That without aconsiderable Re-infor cement of large Men of Warthey could do no farther Service. And De Witteis reported to have gone yet farther, and with hisaccustomed Heat to have said, in the Presence ofthe States: Why should Hold my Tongue? lamin the Presence of my Lords and Masters, I tnay ,sure , nay I must fay it; The English are our Ma-ilers; And of Course are Masters of the Sea.
The Loss of the English was greatest in theirGeneral Deane , there was besides him, but oneCaptain, and about two Hundred (JYhitlock faysbut one Hundred six and twenty) Seamen killed:TheNumber of the wounded was not much greater,nor did they lose one Ship, nor were so disabled,but that they followed the Dutch to theCoastof Hol-land, blocked them up in their own Harbours, andtook all such Ships as came bound for those Parts.
Whitlock fays, that the seventh of June , In-telligence came, that about twenty of the DutchFleet were taken, burnt and sunk, three Fire-ships taken, one Vice-Admiral and two Rear-Ad-mirals, one Rear- Admiral towed by th e. Entrance,tho' far bigger than herself, having fourteenGunson a Tier, and being of twelve Hundred Tuns.
The same Author, in his Memorandum of theeleventh of June, says, that Captain Williams ,Commander of a Privateer, had brought threePrizes into Pendennis, whereof one had Store ofMony ; But, (continues he) the Mariners tookCare it should not be known how much ; And ofthe thirteenth ; That eight Men of War, of theEnglish Fleet, had brought into Leith Road twen-ty small Dutch Veflels, Busses and other Prizes.
(») These Rewards were ; For Boarding andTaking a Chief Admiral of the Englijh; theShip and all her Equipage, and ten ThousandGuilders ; For other Admirals, the Ship, &c.an d fix Thousand Guilders : And for oriyateShips, the Ship, &c. and four Thousand Guil-ders. For a Flag taken down from a chief Ad-roiral's Main-mast, a Thousand Guilders ; Forthose of other Admirals five Hundred each ; A•Hag of a Foremast or Poop, one Hundred and
fifty; And for one of less Consideration, fiftyGuilders.
A few Days after, they publilhed another Or-dinance, by which they granted certain Recom-pences, for such as should be maimed in the Ser-vice of their Country, which were:
Guild.
Stiv.
Doits,
of both Eyes.
1069
13
3
One Eye
8 40
Both Arms
1066
13
' 3
Right Arm
333
6
6
Left Arm.
2 66
I 3
3
Both Hands
933
6
6
Right Hand
2 66
13
3
Left Hand
240
Both Legs
533
6
6
One Leg
240
Both Feet
333
6
6
One Foot
160
A Guilder is twenty Pence Dutch Mony, or a-bout two and twenty English, a Stiver the twen-tieth Part of a Guilder, and a. Doit the eighthPart of a Stiver.
Persons only lamed were left to the Discretionof the Colleges of the Admiralty ; And Incura-bles allowed a Crown a Week.
(0) Between the latter End of June, and the Whitlock,latter End of July, Whitlock makes Mention ofthe following Prizes taken.
A Vessel before the Texel, going in withInstructions to their Fleet.
^Three Merchant-lhips taken by the Englijh
Some Prizes taken on the Scotch Coast by Cap-tain Rudlee.
Five Ships loaden with Masts, Pitch, Tar, GYTwo from Stockholm, which besides other Goods,had two Hundred Copper Guns in their Holds ;
Three Ships loaden with Corn ; Two others fromDantzick , and tws from the Streights, one loadenwith Gil, and the other with Silks: All by thej Englijh Fleet.
Twenty Dutch Prizes brought into Lee-Rozdby Ca.ptain Wright.
Captain Bun , Commander of an Englijh Fri»gat took three Dutch Vessels laden with Corn,and sent them to Leith.
The Grey-houndErigstt brought into Leith ,five Prixes taken by her near th§ Sounds twoDeques and three Dutch Busses,
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