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A77548	Britania triumphalis; a brief history of the vvarres and other state-affairs of Great Britain. From the death of the late King, to the dissolution of the last Parliament.		1654 (1654)	Wing B4817A; Thomason E1487_2; ESTC R21059	61,011	215

and wonted valour betook themselves to new resolutions for the quickning out a considerable Fleet whereby to allay the soaring pride of their adversaries and to stifle those unruly clamours and generall discontents of the people every where murmuring and inveighing against their Governours as if they had by secret and clandestine designes contrived the ruine of the Nation by a destruction of the Fleet. And first they took into consideration what due encouragement was fit to be given to Mariners and Seamen and ordered That the Wages of every able Seaman fit for the helme and head top and yard should be advanced from 18s the moneth to 23s the moneth and all the rest proportionable That for every Prize they shall take and shall be so adjudged in the Court of Admiralty they shall have Ten Shillings for every Tun the said Ship shall measure and six Pounds ten Shillings four Pence for every peece of Ordnance whether Iron or brasse to be shared and divided amongst them proportionably according to their places and Offices in the Ship and that they shall have all Pillage they shall finde upon or above the Gun-deck of any such Prize That they shall have ten Pounds a Gun for every man of Warre they shall sink or destroy by Fire or otherwise to be divided as aforesaid with a moneths gratis money to all that shall voluntarily come into their Service within 40 dayes That for supplying of necessary Provisions unto sick and wounded men aboard there be allowed five Pounds for six moneths service for every hundred men That care be taken upon their discharge for the payment of their Tickets and Conduct money That a convenient house be provided in or neer Dover Deale or Sandwich as an Hospitall for the accommodation of such wounded men as shall be there set on shore These with severall other branches of the like nature were printed and published to the great satisfaction of the Seamen insomuch that towards the latter end of Febr. 1653 the English had a brave and resolute Fleet out at Sea notwithstanding all the care and industry of the Hollanders to hinder all Nations from bringing any Pitch Tar or Masts into this Common-weath Febr. 18th The English and Dutch Fleets engage neer the Isle of Wight and Portland The Dutch Fleet in number about 80 with about 150 Merchantmen from Roan Nants and Bourdeaux were discovered between the Isle of Wight and Portland and about 8 in the morning the headmost of the English Fleet came up and engaged them viz. the Triumph where was Gen. Blake Gen. Dean with three or four more the rest were not able to get up being to the Leeward so that them few were constrained to bear the first brunt holding play with no lesse then 30 of the Dutch men of Warre and thus it continued till two a clock in the afternoon after which about half the English Fleet came up and engaged the Dutch till the night parted In this fight the English lost none save the Sampson a Dutch Prize which being made unserviceable was sunk by themselves the men being all taken out and saved which Ship first sunk the enemy that maimed her Febr. 19. The English made towards the Dutch and followed them upon the chace a good while in which dayes service some of the enemies Ships were brought by the Lee and destroyed Febr. 20. They engaged the Dutch again and the dispute grew hot insomuch that the enemy began to fire out of their stern-most ports and make away so that divers of their Merchants Ships fell into the hands of the English at evening the English Fleet being against Boloigne in France and not farre from the shore the wind at N. N. west which was bad for them to get to their own shore they endeavoured by haling upon a tack to get Dover-Road but many of their Ships having their Sails and rigging much tattered and torn they came to an Anchor The English in this fight took about 50 Merchants and 9 men of Warre severall of their men of Warre were likewise sunk by the English beside what the enemy themselves sunk that were made unserviceable and by Letters out of France it was certified also that above 2000 dead bodies of the Dutch were seen upon the French shores Presently after this hot and terrible fight there was 1500 taken Prisoners and brought to London Gen. Blake was wounded in this engagement severall other Commanders of the English of eminent worth and gallantry were slain and wounded also Now though a particular accompt of the Dutch losse could never yet be fully known yet without all question it was as sad and dreadfull a losse to that State as they ever yet knew for which let Gods Name alone be magnified and though I am none of those Qui malis gaudeo alienis yet seeing that by a kind of fatall necessity the stroakes of adverse fortune must fall heavy somewhere we ought with hands lifted up to blesse God for our deliverance The Dutch being deeply sensible of this losse sent a Letter to the Parliament of England yet signed only by the States of Holland and West-Friesland in answer to which the Parliament a Letter signifying their desire of a friendly compliance for the avoiding the further shedding of Christian bloud but nothing came thereon But lest the English should surfet with excesse of joy for their late Victories over their enemies God was pleased to give them a check by an unexpected defeat of their Ships in the Levant-Seas which was as followes The English having by a stratagem regained the Phoenix Frigot from the Dutch as she lay in Levorn Mole fitted themselves for another encounter with the Dutch Capt. Badiley with 9 men of War weighed out of Portolongone towards the relief of those other Ships under Capt. Apleton that lay in Levorne Mole and for severall moneths had been coop'd up by 22 men of Warre hereupon the English Ships under Capt. Apleton weighed out of the Mole The English Fleet in the Levant Seas are again worsted by the Dutch a little sooner then they should have done and were presently engaged by the whole Fleet of the Dutch who having the advantage of the wind with their Admirall and two other Ships clapt the Leopard aboard a stout English Ship of above 50 Guns who bravely maintain'd the fight at least 5 hours against them all till at length being overborne by the number of the enemy she was taken The Bonadventure by a shot in her Pouder room took fire and was blown up The Peregrine was engaged with four or five of the Dutch at a time and having her main-mast and misen-mast shot away and being overpowr'd with number was taken The Levant-Merchant was first boarded by one of the enemies Ships of 36 Guns and after two hours fight by another as big the first of which sunk presently after yet was she also possest by the Dutch The Sampson was boarded by young Trump Rear Admirall of the