732 W. and M. Naval Expeditions , &c. oj the English, Book

i 700. for that Purpose; But all Differenceswere, soon after, happily adjusted, andthe several Squadrons thereupon retiredto their respective Coasts, (r) TheKing’s Conduct, (fays Bishop Burnet) inthis whole Matter, was highly applaud-ed ; He effectually protected the Swedes,and yet obliged them to accept of rea-sonable Terms of Peace.

Death of The King had not been long return-ee King of ed from Holland, when a Matter of theSpain. highest Importance requir’d His, aswell as the Nation’s, most particularAttention, I mean the Death of theKing of Spain, on the first of November,N. S. a Will having been procured, a

Month before, from the half dead I? 00,King, in Favour of the Duke d'Anjou,who was acknowledged King of Spain,by the King of France, in Prejudice tothe Treaty of Partition, the sixteenth.

And the Dutch found themselves oblig-ed to acknowledge him soon after.

His Majesty, tho’ he was highly j new P* r jconcerned at these Proceedings of the liamentFrench Court, forbore to Ihew his Re-sentment, ’till he was in a Condition torevenge himself. The nineteenth ofDecember, he thought fit to dissolve theParliament, and to call another to meetthe sixth of February . (i)

The

(r) Thus were these two Northern Monarchsreconciled, or, at least, the King of Denmark,who was the Aggressor, submitted to the reasonableTerms, which King William , and his Allies, theStates General , had determined to constrain himto do. And had they not thus gone roundly to workwith the Danes , by a stilling' the Swedes, with soconsiderable a Part of their Naval Force, and let-ting them see, that if they declined an amicableAccommodation, they had nothing else to expect,but a vigorous Attack on their Country, the Quar-rel between those two Princes, which must havedrawn after it other evil Consequences, would not,so soon, have been brought to a happy Issue.

Gen- Trea- (q j N the Notes to the Year, 1693. I gave thefife of the Reader a Copy of an Establishment made by HisDom. of the Majesty in Council, the twenty-second of February,Seas. p. 608• of a Gratification to Sea-Commanders, in Lieu ofTable-mony granted by King James, (tho’ neverpaid) and in Consideration that the Enghjh Pay wasthen less, than that of our Neighbours. I likewisementioned, that the Fund for this Establishmentending with the War, the King had no otherMeans to afford it, except he had allowed it outof His Revenue ; The then Lords of the Admi-ralty, therefore, formed another Scheme, bywhich they reduced the Sum, from forty to abouteighteenThoufand Pounds a Year, for the half Pay,to be allowed only to a certain Number of Offi-cers, retrenching their Sea-pay almost a Third inthe whole, and a full Third from the Captains jWhich Establishment, without the King’s con-cerning himself therein, had all imaginable Coun-tenance from the House of Commons , because inPeace they were to give but eighteen ThousandPounds, per Ann. and, in War, the Payretrench’dfrom the Sea-Officers in Commission, without far-ther Charge to the Nation, would be much morethan to answer the Number of those to be provi-ded for ashoar, if any should happen so to be : Forthe thirty Shillings per Man, a Month, Wages,holding out to pay the Sea-Officers, at the doublePay, whereby the Ships of each Rate took, at themiddle Complement, less than thirty Shillings perMonth, which is the Sum allowed by Parliament,the Surplus therefore, over and above what isretrench’d from the Sea-Officers, answers the PayandTable-Monies of the Admirals and Flag-Offi-cers, the extraordinary Allowance of Comman-

ancient Usage of all Publick Offices, as well as theNavy) and whatever else may be ranged underthe Head of Wages, exempt from the other threeof Victualling, Wear and Tear, and Ordnance-Stores, for which also, and their Contingences,the Parliament grants Distinct Sums of Mo-

ny- . ...

And this Establishment, in Pursuance of a Voteof the House of Commons , desiring His Majesty totake it into His Consideration, having been laidbefore the King and Council, at Kensington, theeighteenth of April, of this Year, His Majestyapproved the same ; - viz. That the whole doublePay, then allowed to the Officers of the Fleet,should be retrenched, according to the followingTable, by which it will appear, that near oneThird thereof is taken away.

Now allow''A, Proposed.

I. s. d. I. s. d.

6

4

4

3

iz

9

8

7

<5

10

4

15

iz

10

6

6

5S55

12

7

12 i12

The whole Pay.

To the Adm. of the Fleet,per Diem,

White ,

Blue,

Vice-Admirals,

Rear-Admirals, 2

Capt. to the Adm. of the Fleet, 2

Captains of the Firsl-Rates. 1

Second i

Third 1

FourthFifthSixth

Lieutenants of First-Rates.

SecondThirdFourthFifthSixth

Masters of First-Rates, ^sr 1 4

SecondThirdFourthFifthSixth

Surgeons to have their present

Allowance of Sea-Pay.

That over and above the Establishment of

xo

xo

10

*5

i(513 <108siS

s

444428siiz2 813 4

dors'in chief of Squadrons wearing the Broad Pen- Men to each Ship, there be allowed as Servantsdant, the contingent Expence of Flags and Cap- to the Flag Officers, as under, viz.

tains presiding at Courts-Martial, as also their tra-velling Charges, Allowances for Pens, Ink andPaper, with other Necessaries, for their PublickLetters, Journals and Accounts (according to the

q Admiral, 50-

To the A. of the White &Blue.op(J Vice-Admirals. 20 (

C Rear-Admirals. X.3

Men for’their Flags

To