Biographia Navalis: Or, Impartial Memoirs of the Lives and Characters of Officers of the Navy of Great Britain, from the Year 1660 to the Present Time; Drawn from the Most Authentic Sources, and Disposed in a Chronological Arrangement, Volumen3R. Faulder, 1795 |
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Página 212 - • and likewise custos rotulorum of the counties of Gloucester and Surrey. Moreover, on the 17th of the same month, he was appointed keeper of the forest of Dean, and constable of St. Briavel's castle ; also vice-admiral of Great Britain, and lieutenant of the admiralties thereof, and lieutenant of the navies and seas of this kingdom. He departed this life at the castle of Aubigny, a seat of the Duke of Richmond's, near Rochelle, in France (being there for the recovery of his health) in August,...
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Página 264 - Captain Hawke, of the Berwick, left her, but could not get his lieutenant and twentythree men out of her; his first lieutenant having done all he could to persuade the men to quit her, but in vain.
Página 371 - I have given Captain H the orders you have inclosed a copy of, for his weighing with the first flood for making a fresh inspection at Calais this evening or to-morrow morning. As soon as the windward tide makes, I shall weigh with the squadron, and keep plying and exercising my ships in line of battle, and for being ready at hand on any advice of the enemy's motions ; till I have but barely time for anchoring in the Downs before it is night, when I shall obey their Lordships...
Página 372 - ... pretty nearly at who may be the concealed director of it. "As the pen of the Secretary of the Admiralty conveyed these bitter shafts that were levelled at me, I thought it right to suggest that his pen might be tinged with a gall flowing from his own mind, beyond the direction he might receive for it, from which I thought it my duty to acquit him on a gentlemanlike apology in regard to his office, which I was no stranger to...
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