Chap. I.

A

Compleat and Impartial

Of All the Memorable

NAVAL EXPEDITIONS

TRANSACTIONS

O F T H E

ENGLISH NATION;

Both Publick and Mercantile, &c*

BOOK IV.

Giving an Account of all the memorable Naval Expeditions andTransactions of the English, from the Revolution to the Deathof King William.

CHAP. I.

Naval Expeditions and Transactions of the English, with some other remarkable

Occurrences, in the Tear, 1689. (*)

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Concluded theforegoing Book withthe Abdication ofKing James II. andan Account how theEnglish Fleet wasdisposed of, afterLanding of ' thePrince of Orange, in November, 1688.

From thatTime, to the thirteenth ofFebruary, the Day the Prince and Prin-cess of Orange, by the Declaration off he Lords Spiritual and Temporal, andCommons assembled in a full and free Re-presentation of the Nation, in Convention,a cceeded to the Throne, by the Names

of William and Mary, King and Queenof England, France and Ireland, and of 1 "89.the Dominions thereunto belonging, is,by some Historians, called an Interreg-num, and by others, who will allow ofno such Term in the Englijh Constitu-tion, is added to the Reign of KingJames II. But as this Space of Time af-fords no Matter for our Naval Hiflory ,

I pass it by, and come to the Reign ofKing William and Queen Mary. The Prccta*

No sooner had their Highnesses (th emationtfPrincess being arrived from Holland theDay before) accepted of the Crown ten- MajyTdered them by the Marquis of Halifax,

Speaker of the House of Lords, in the

Name

(*) I think it proper to inform my Readers,at the Beginning ot this Book, that as the Materi-a,s , of which this and the following Books arecompiled, con list, in a great Measure, of singlesupers and Pamphlets, partly printed, and partlyManuscript, it wdl be impossible for me to conti-

nue the Punctuality I have hitherto observed, inQuoting my Authors ; However, to be as just inthis Particular, as is in my Power, I shall, at theBeginning of every Chapter, name the knownAu*thors I have consulted on this Occasion.