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Pirate Squadron
By our letters of the 27th
of this month we gave you directions to send two of the ships under your
command to guard and defend the fisherman of
(1. Fisherman's City) Great Yarmouth from the
(2. Pirate City#1) Dunkirkers,
(3. Pirate City #2) Frenchman, and other pirates.
And forasmuch as we have received advertisement
that the
(2. Pirate City#1) Dunkirkers do much infest those Northern parts, having landed and
committed much spoil in Shetland and thereabout.
We do hereby further will and require you to aid
the ships of the United Provinces of the Low Countries, in the best manner
that you shall be able, against the (2.
Pirate City#1) Dunkirkers, and for that purpose to
take with you for your assistance, by virtue of these our letters, all
such men of war, being subjects of his Majestie, as you shall meet, and in
particular those four shipps, which were appointed to guard the fishers to
Ireland and Westmonie.
And if you meet with
(4. Captain's
Name) Sir Sackvill Trevor, whom we conceive you may find
about those parts, you are also to aid and assist him with all your force,
and to acquaint him with these our directions, and with the affronts and
outrages done by the aforesaid
(2. Pirate City#1) Dunkirkers upon those Northern parts.
And you are likewise to hold a very good and
strict intelligence with him, to the end that you may be more ready upon
all occasions to help each other for the defence of the coast, and of his
Majestie’s subjects, and for the defeating of the common enemy.
And so expecting your careful performance of
these our directions, we bid you &c., &c.
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