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A34374 A Continuation of news from that part of His Majesties fleet that now lies at High-Lake near Chester giving an impartial account of all considerable occurrences since its leaving Harwich to this present time. 1689 (1689) Wing C5958; ESTC P198 3,726 2

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Sail. We let him go again and doubled the Lizzard point and got into Mountsbay and discovered the Mount about twelve at Noon In the afternoon as well as all the day before we heard several Broad-sides and a great many hundred Guns to the Coast of France About four a Clock we heard a great blow the same way and immediately after saw a huge Pile of smoak rise from the place where we heard the blow This was seen by most of our Fleet and is concluded some Ship or other blown up Sunday and Monday we made the best of our way towards our Port with fair Winds and fine Weather Monday in the afternoon about 3 a Clock we saw the Welch Land and two strange Ships ahead of us on which we tackt for the rest of our Fleet and to get the Weathergage About 6 we came up with 'em and found 'em a Yacht and a Smack who confirm'd the happy News we heard from Weymouth of the Relief of Derry They also told that Admiral Herbert and our Fleet about Eighty Sail were of off the old Head of Kingsale whence they lately came and were now again going to ' em In the evening we came up with some little Islands and about 12 at night past the Bishop and his Clerks without any of all those Bugbears Hickeringall talks of We found 'em very peaceable Rocks they let us all go by without touching us though had we had a fancy to try hard-heads with 'em 't is ten to one we had got the worst on 't Thursday we saw Bardley Island and the main Land of Wales and a parcel of Mountains one would think high enough to break the Goats necks that clamber to the tops of ' em In the evening we came up with Anglesey whither in the night most of our Fleet stole away from us and got to an Anchor in Beaumarys Bay. Wednesday 14. We took a Pilot on board got round the Sand-bank and came to an Anchor in our Port of High-Lake In working our Ship about to get her into the Harbour the Wind being somewhat against us one of our Men was beaten against the sides of the Ship with a Rope and taken up for dead but he recovered and is like to do well all the misfortunes we yet met with in our Voyage They tell us here that Duke Schomberg went off for Ireland with a fair wind on Munday last with about 13000 men and the rest we find Shipping to follow him as fast as possible There is now with us at Highlake the Dartmouth Frigot which fired against Kilmore while relief went into Derry there is upon the shore just ready to embark for Ireland my Lord Lucas his Regiment and other Soldiers Advertisement ☞ The Tragedies of Sin contemplated in the ruine of the Angels c. by Stephen Jay Rector of Chinner in the County of Oxon. ☞ There is also now in a large octavo publisht The Bloody-Assizes or A compleat History of the Lives Actions Tryals Sufferings Speeches Deaths and Characters of all those Excellent persons who fell in the West of England and elsewhere from the Death of Sir Edmund-bury Godfrey to this present time with the Pictures of several of the chief of them in Copper Plates To which is added the Life Death and Character of George Lord Jefferies Written by a person of great learning and piety Printed by the order of several of their Relations for John Dunton at the black Raven in the Poultrey London Printed for Iohn Dunton at the Black Raven in the Poultrey 1689.