England under Charles II. from the Restoration to the Treaty of Nimeguen, 1660-1678: English History from Contemporary Writers
Taylor, W. F.
1889
How the letters of reprisal were carried out.
Clarendon's Hist. of Charles II., vol. i., pp. 477, 478. | |
It being the season of year that the Dutch fleet returned with their wines from Bordeaux, Rochelle, and other parts of France, such of them as were forced by the weather to put into . . . English harbours were seized upon, and the duke of York having put himself on board with a fleet of about fifty sail, upon the report of the Dutch being come out to defend theirs, took many others, even upon their own coasts. | |
Undoubted intelligence arrived in a very short time after that De Ruyter had declared and begun the war upon the coast of Africa . . . by seizing upon several English ships in those parts, and by assaulting and taking his Majesty's forts and places, &c., &c. | |