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1689. Queen of Spain, and her Majesty’s Re-tinue. From thence he was directed toproceed to Spithead for farther Orders;and upon her Majesty’s coming onBoard, as well as during the Time ofher Stay, he was ordered to bear theUnion-Flag, at the Main-top-MastHead.

His Procee- This Fleet arrived at Flujhing thedings on that twelfth of December ,having been obligedxpe ttion. k over a bout, four and twenty Hours,on that Coast, in such hazy Weather,that there was no Possibility of makingthe Land. Her Majesty embarked onBoard the Duke, towards the Middle ofJanuary, and arrived in the Downs, on

1690. the eighteenth, where both herself andherRetinue were removed into more pro-per Ships. The four and twentieth ofJanuary, they arrived at St. Helen's,and, a few Days after, the Queen wascomplimented from Their Majesties, bythe Duke of Norfolk ; And from theirRoyal Highnesses, by the Lord Combu-ry and Colonel Berkley. The Admiralproceeded to Sea again as soon as theWinds would permit ■, But was forcedback to Tor bay, the three and twentiethof the next Month, as he was again thesecond of March, after another Attemptto sail. At Length, the Fleet, which

by this Time was encreafed to the Num- 1689*her of four Hundred Merchant-Men,bound for the Streights, with aboutthirty Men of War to convoy them,setting Sail from Torbay , on the seventhof March, after a stormy and dangerousPassage, arrived in Safety at the Groyne,on the sixteenth.

The Admiral, having put the Queenand her Retinue on Shoar, and dispatch-ed all his other necessary Affairs, setSail again ; But by contrary Winds wasdrove into the Harbour of Ferrol,near the Groyne. Here the Ship Dukewent on Shoar, in a violent Storm ;

But with great Care and Pains was luki-ly got off again, having sustained littleor no Damage. Those Ships whichwere appointed for Part of the Mediter-ranean Squadron,the Admiral took time-ly Care to dispatch to Cadiz, and then,laying Hold of the first Opportunity ofa Wind, he reached Plymouth the fiveand twentieth of April, with the Re-mainder. He arrived at Portsmouth,the eight and twentieth, and there land-ed the Ladies, and other Persons ofQuality,who had attended the Queen ofSpain in her Passage, (9) and so endedthe Voyage.

CHAP. II.

Vice-Admiral Killegrew’r Expedition, from the Time of his Sailing ^^Me-diterranean, to that of his Return to England ; with some other Transactions, ofthe Tear, 1690.

1690.

Kennet.Burchett.Burnet.Hist. of K.William.

O N the eight and twentieth ofDecember , of the foregoingYear, Vice-Admiral Killegrewwas appointed Commander inchief of a Squadron, which was ordered

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(q) To conclude this Chapter, I shall just hintat a private Voyage, I mean that of the Ship Ben-jamin, bound from London for Surat, in the East-Indies . This Ship departed from Gravefend, onthe eleventh of April, 1689. the memorable Day,on which Their Majesties, King William andQueen Mary , were crowned, and she was sent tothose Parts as an Advice-Ship of that extraordi-nary and happy Revolution, by which Their Ma-jesties were peaceably settled on the Throne, andhad been received with the universal Joy of thewhole Nation. For such of my Readers as arecurious to follow her on this Voyage, I shall re-fer them to the Relation of it (in which are somyThings worthy of Remark) written by Mr. J.

Ovington , M. A. Chaplain to His Majesty, KingWilliam, and shall only observe, from him, thatin all Places where they came, they were wel-comed with loud and chearful Acclamations, andwere entertained with unusual Congratulations andRespect, as happy Messengers of as gratefulNews,as ever arrived in those Parts. They were everywhere truly lensible of their unexpected Deliverranee from that Misery and Thraldom, whicheven there threatned them, and likewise of theinvaluable Bleffingof living under a peaceableGo-vernment, free from their former Apprehensions*either of Violence upon their Temporal Enjoy-ments, or Disturbance to the Tranquility of theirMinds.