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to conclude a treaty with the United Provinces, a secret article of which bound him to declare war against England. The order in council for the printing and publishing a declaration of war against Denmark is dated “Whitehall, Sept. 19, 1666;” annexed is “A True Declaration of all transactions between his Majesty of Great Britain and the King of Denmark, with a declaration of war against the said king, and the motives that obliged his Majesty thereunto” (Calendar of State Papers, 1666⁠–⁠67, p. 140). ↩

The contractor Swan referred to above. ↩

Francis Digby, second son of George, second Earl of Bristol. He was appointed lieutenant of the Royal Charles in 1666, and promoted to the command of the Jersey in the same year. He was killed in the sea-fight at Solebay, and Charnock (Biographia Navalis, vol. i, pp. 222, 223) speaks highly of his intrepidity. ↩

This word (now used only in the curtailed form of tar) was once common.

“The Archbishop of Bourdeaux is at present general of the French Naval Forces, who though a priest is yet permitted to turn tarpaulin and soldier.”

The Turkish Spy, Letter I (1691)

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Evidently the concluding passage of Mother Shipton’s Prophecies, viz., “A ship come sayling up the Thames to London, and the master of the ship shall weepe, and the mariners shall aske him why he weepeth, being he hath made so good a voyage, and he shall say, ‘Ah, what a goodlie citie this was! none in the world comparable to it; and now there is scarcely left any house that can let us have drinke for our money.’ ” Quoted from the edition of 1641, which Prince Rupert might have seen. —⁠B. ↩

“John Hubbard commanded the Return, the Helversome and Lyon in succession during the year 1665; in 1666 he was made captain of the Royal Charles, the ship on board which the joint commanders in chief, Prince Rupert and the Duke of Albemarle, hoisted the standard. The very conspicuous share borne by this ship in the victory obtained over the Dutch may naturally be inferred from the known active intrepidity of those two great men. And while their extensive minds were engaged in arranging and manœuving the fleet under their command, surely no small degree of merit ought to be attributed to the captain of the ship in which they fought, who by his conduct and gallantry enabled them to transfer their attention from an individual object to the weightier part of their charge.”

Charnock’s Biographia Navalis, vol. i, p. 168

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For note on declaration of war with Denmark, see note 3018. ↩

The Archbishop defended by Stillingfleet was Laud, and the work referred to is entitled, A Rational Account of the Grounds of the Protestant Religion⁠ ⁠… being a Vindication of the Archbishop’s Relation of a Conterence from the pretended Answer of T. C[arwell]. London, 1665. ↩

Son of Thomas Killigrew by his first wife, Cecilia, daughter of Sir John Crofts, and maid of honour to Henrietta Maria. Born April 9th, 1637, and baptized in St. Martin’s-in-the-Fields, April 16th. He is called “young,” to distinguish him from his uncle of the same name, who was Master of the Savoy. He was Groom of the Bedchamber to the Duke of York (1656), then to the king (1662), again to the duke (1666), and again to the king (1669). He was living in 1694, when he held his father’s place of Master of the Revels. ↩

Williamson stood for Morpeth, but was unsuccessful; Edward, Lord Morpeth, was elected on September 27th, 1666. ↩

Robert Austin of Tenterden was elected M.P. for Winchelsea, October 4th, 1666. ↩

In the instructions given to Sir Thomas Clifford (August 5th, 1666) to be communicated to Prince Rupert and the Duke of Albemarle, we read: “to tell them that the complaint of Sir Jeremy Smith’s misbehaviour in the late engagement being so universal, unless he have fully satisfied the generals he should be brought to trial by court-martial, and there purged or condemned.” The Duke of Albemarle answered the king (August 14th?): “Wishes to clear a gallant man falsely accused, Sir Jeremiah Smith, who had more men killed and hurt, and his ship received more shot than any in the fleet. There is not a more spirited man serves in the fleet” On October 27th H. Muddiman wrote to Sir Edward Stradling: “Sir Jeremy Smith has got as much credit by his late examination as his enemies wished him disgrace, the King and Duke of York being fully satisfied of his valour in the engagement. It appears that he had 147 men killed and wounded, while the most eminent of his accusers had but two or three.” With regard to Sir Jeremy’s counter-charges, we read: “Nov. 3. The King having maturely considered the charges brought against Sir Rob. Holmes by Sir Jeremy Smith, finds no cause to suspect Sir Robert of cowardice in the fight with the Dutch of June 25 and 26, but thinks that on the night of the 26th he yielded too easily to the opinion of his pilot, without consulting those of the other ships, muzzled his ship, and thus obliged the squadron to do the same, and so the enemy, which might have been driven into the body of the king’s fleet, then returning from the pursuit, was allowed to escape” (Calendar of State Papers, 1666⁠–⁠67, pp. 14, 40, 222, 236). ↩

See August 6th, 1666. ↩

Thomas, Earl of Ossory, sat in the House of Lords as Baron Butler, but his creation in 1665 is not mentioned in Courthope’s Historic Peerage or in Solly’s