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Chap. VI - The Surrender of the Royal Fleet—December 2nd to 14th

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 November 2010

Edward Barzillai Powley
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Upon the afternoon of Sunday, December 2nd, the acting-Governor of Portsmouth, Lord Dover, paid his second visit to the ‘Resolution’, waiting on the Admiral to demand, in the King's name, adherence to a very desperate scheme. Dover unfolded the project through the presentation of two letters. The first, which he had received a week previously, upon parting with the King at Andover, he had, in full consonance with the sense of his instructions, delayed in delivery. It ran:

1688, Nov. 25th, Andover. I send this you by the Lord Dover, whom I send to Portsmouth to command in chief there,… I haue charged Lord Dover…to speake with you of my intentions concerning my sonne, and you must follow Lord Dover's directions as to what concerns our sayd sonne, by being assisting to him in what directions I haue giuen him by word of mouth. I haue not tyme to say more.

James R.

The second letter, which had not been long in Dover's possession, carried the request a stage further.

1688 Nov. 29th, Whitehall. This is the second letter I write to you upon the subject of my sonne.… […]

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The English Navy in the Revolution of 1688 , pp. 134 - 149
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2010
First published in: 1928

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