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hang'd the next Day for having revolted against their Captain Brill is not a Town that can pretend to divert impatient Travellers Every body was thinking of means to get out of that solitary Place and my Lord Monmouth whom all the World knows to be very Active and of a Temper to despise all Perils had a good mind to venture over without a Convoy At last he found a way to oblige two French Privateers the only name we ought to have been afraid of to secure our Passage To speak plain there were two French Privateers of twenty Guns each riding in the Maese that had been taken by the Dutch and being turned into Merchant men and man'd with French Protestants they were ready to set sail for Port-a-port by the help of a handful of Guinea's they were prevailed with to accompany us to the English Coast And my Lord Dorset and Mr. Wharton being arriv'd at the Brill in the Katherine-Yacht and approv'd of our Design we set sail about four a Clock in the Afternoon We were in all six Sail two Yachts two Privateers and two Merchant-men and the Katherine-Yacth being the stout Admiral of our little Fleet we had these following Orders sent us from on Board of her 1. If we weigh Anchor in the Day-time then we will hoist up our Top-sail and fire a Gun if in the Night we will hang out a Light in the Shrowds and fire a Gun 2. He that spies any Sail at Sea more than his own Company or Squadron shall hoist and lower his Ensign as often as he shall see Ships if in the Night then to make false Fires until he be answer'd with the like 3. In case of thick and foggy Weather we will every quarter of an Hour tinckle our Bell or fire a Gun now and then which must be answer'd with the like by every Vessel with a Musquet 4. If any lose Company and meet again in the Day-time he that is to the Windward shall hall up his Main-Sail and keep it in the Brayls until such time as he that is to Leeward shall come up with him 5. If any make Land in the Day-time he must hoist up his Ensign and keep it out until he be answered 6. If any spy Land or any Danger in the Night he is to hang out two Lights more than he had before and fire one Gun and bear away or tack from it 7. If we make Sail in the Night we will hang out a Light at the Ensign-Staff if shorten Sail in the Night then we will fire one Gun without altering our Lights We cou'd not get that Night out of the River the Wind being very low and the Tide spent and we were forced to come to an Anchor about seven a Clock at Night five or six Miles beyond the Brill where we continued for two Days and two Nights together March the 12th We weigh'd Anchors early in the Morning making use of a fresh Gale that blew North-east insomuch that having advanced that Day and the following Night we came the next Morning within two Leagues of Marget March the 13th The Sea was extremely calm yet the Katherine-Yacht making use of her Oars and we striving to follow her we came at last so neat the Shoar that my Lord Dorset and Monmouth with their Company thought fit to land in their Barges March the 14th A thick Fog hindred us to gain the River but towards Night we weigh'd Anchor and having weigh'd and cast them out again for several times acording as the Tides serv'd it being the only means by which we advanc'd we arriv'd March the 16th at Greenwich and from thence we went to London FINIS Books Printed for Richard Baldwin near the Oxford Arms in Warwick-Lane THe Memoirs of Monsieur Deageant Containing the most secret Transactions and Affairs of France from the Death of Henry IV. till the beginning of the Ministry of the Cardinal de Richelieu To which is added a Particular Relation of the Archbishop of Embrun's Voyage into England and of his Negotiation for the advancement of the Roman Catholick Religion here together with the Duke of Buckingham's Letters to the said Archbishop about the Progress of that Affair Which happen'd the last Years of King James I. his Reign Faithfully Translated out of the French Original The Cabinet Open'd or the Secret History of the Amours of Madam de Maintenon with the French King Translated from the French Copy Victoriae Anglicanae Being an Historical Collection of all the Memorable and Stupendious Victories obtain'd by the English against the French both by Sea and Land since the Norman Conquest Viz. The Battle 1. Between K. Henry II. and Robert of Normandy 2. At Morleis 3. At the Rescue of Calice 4. At Poicters 5. At Cressy 6. At Agincourt 7. At the Mouth of the River Seine 8. At Vernoil 9. At Cravant 10. At the Relief of Orleance with the great Actions of the Lord Salisbury and Talbot 11. Of Spurrs Dedicated to all the Commission'd Officers of the Maritime and Land Forces The Present State of Christendom consider'd in Nine Dialogues between 1. The present Pope Alexander VIII and Lewis XIV 2. The Great Duke of Tuscany and the Duke of Savoy 3. King James the Second and the Marescal de la Feuillade 4. The Duke of Lorrain and the Duke of Schomberg 5. The Duke of Lorrain and the Elector Palatine 6. Louis the XIV and the Marquis de Louvois 7. The Advoyer of Berne and the Chief Syndick of Geneva 8. Cardinal Ottoboni and the Duke de Chaulnes 9. The young Prince Abafti and Count Teckeley Done out of French