^{page iv note *} See p. 19 in the Correspondence. Charnock in his Biographia Naxalis, i. 334Google Scholar, has made him out to be the son of Andrew Haddock, his own nephew.

^{page vii note *} The best account of the Haddock family is to be found in a paper written bj Mr. H. W. King and printed in The Archœological Mine, a work relating to Kentish history by A. J. Dunkin, vol. ii., pp. 41–51. Charnock's Biographia Navalis of course gives particulars of the services of the family; and a number of original naval commissions of its different members are still extant in Egerton MS. 2520. See also The History of Rochford Hundred by Philip Benton, 1872, pp. 35Google Scholarsqq.

^{page 1 note a} Afterwards Admiral Sir R. Haddock.

^{page 1 note b} Major-General Thomas Kelsey, commanding in Kent and Surrey.

^{page 2 note a} On the 8th May.

^{page 2 note b} On the 25th May.

^{page 3 note a} Kichard Haddock's first wife. Perhaps her maiden name was Stevens. (See letter of 1 May 1658, in which Haddock sends his duty to “Father and Mother Steevens.”)

^{page 3 note b} Blake's last victory at Santa Cruz, in the Canaries, 20th April. He died on his voyage home, in sight of land, on the 17th August.

^{page 4 note a} By the treaty (23 Mar. 1657) with France against Spain, Cromwell agreed to find 6000 men, with a sufficient fleet, to operate against Gravclines, Mardike, and Dunkirk; the two latter towns, when reduced, to be delivered to the English. Mardike was captured in September of this year, and Dunkirk in June 1658; and both towns were duly handed over to the English forces.

^{page 5 note a} Antoine, Marshal d'Aumont, Governor of Boulogne. Negotiations had been opened with traitors within Ostend; but the matter was kept no secret, and the garrison was prepared. When therefore D'Aumont attempted a surprise, the tables were turned; he was caught in a trap and had to surrender.—Sismondi, Hist, des Français, vol. xxiv. (1840), p. 564.Google Scholar

^{page 5 note b} Edward Montague, afterwards Earl of Sandwich, who had command of the English fleet.

^{page 7 note a} Sir William Coventry was at this time one of the Commissioners of the Nary.

^{page 7 note b} Hollesley Bay, or Haven, on the Suffolk coast, between Orford Ness and the River Deben.

^{page 7 note c} The channel leading south from Hollesley Bay.

^{page 9 note a} Admiral Sir Richard Stayner was knighted for his gallantry in Blake's attack ou Santa Cruz. (See above, p. 3.)

^{page 10 note a} His second wife, Elizabeth; maiden name unknown.

^{page 13 note a} George Digby, 2nd Earl of Bristol.

^{page 14 note a} Rotherhithe.

^{page 14 note b} Sir William Poole, distinguished by his share in the reduction of Tobago, this year.

^{page 15 note a} William Bustow or Burstow, commanding the Mary yacht.

^{page 16 note a} The MS., which is a modern transcript, has “Sir Richard Haddock;” but he was not knighted until 1675, and therefore, for uniformity, the title is suppressed.

^{page 16 note b} The blue squadron.

^{page 17 note a} Earl of Sandwich.

^{page 17 note b} Sir Joseph Jordan, Vice-Admiral of the Blue. See a defence of his conduct, an described in this letter, in Charnock's Biographia Navalis.

^{page 18 note a} Sir Charles Harbord, who served as a volunteer and perished.

^{page 18 note b} Thomas Mayo. He was one of the few who escaped from the Royal James.

^{page 19 note a} Rupert.

^{page 20 note a} William Finch, third son of Thomas, first Earl of Winchilsea; John Tempest, Thomas Foules, and Robert Werden. The last was not killed in this action, according to Charnock, Biogr. Novalis.

^{page 20 note b} Richard Trevauion. He was not killed. He followed James II. into exile.

^{page 21 note a} Francis Courtney. He fell in the action with the Dutch on the 11th August of this year.

^{page 21 note b} This is denied. (See above, p. 20, note.)

^{page 21 note c} Became Vice-Admiral of the Bed, on the death of Sir Edward Spragge, this year.

^{page 21 note d} John Hayward. He fell in the action of 11th August, this year.

^{page 21 note e} Anthony Deane, Commissioner of the Nary at Portsmouth.

^{page 23 note a} Jean, Comte d'Estrées.

^{page 24 note a} Thomas Butler, Earl of Ossory.

^{page 25 note a} A long narrow shoal off the North Foreland.

^{page 28 note a} Henry Yonng.

^{page 28 note b} Richard White and Richard Sadlington.

^{page 29 note a} Lowestoft Ness.

^{page 29 note b} The Shipwash sand-bank off the month of the Deben.

^{page 29 note c} The King's Channel or East Swin, running down east of the Grunfleet sands, off the Essex shore.

^{page 29 note d} The Middle Ground shoal lies at the mouth of the Thames, some miles below the Nore, on the Kentish side of the river.

^{page 29 note e} The Oaze Edge shoal near the Middle Ground, but on the Essex side.

^{page 30 note a} The Red Sand lies between the Ooze Edge and the Middle Ground.

^{page 30 note b} Heligoland.

^{page 31 note a} A mistake for May.

^{page 31 note b} On the 29th November. It was after this action that Van Tromp hoisted the broom at his mast-head.

^{page 32 note a} On the 2nd and 3rd June, off the North Foreland.

^{page 32 note b} Off the Dutch coast.

^{page 32 note c} Before declaration of war, in retaliation for attacks by the Dutch on the colonies.

^{page 32 note d} Sir Thomas Tiddiman, or Teddiman.

^{page 32 note e} The Governor of Bergen not having yet received the instructions from his Government and refusing to admit the English fleet.

^{page 32 note f} Sir Christopher Mings; died of wounds received in the action of 1st June.

^{page 33 note a} Bandaris in the island of Schelling.

^{page 33 note b} Sir Robert Robinson.

^{page 33 note c} The day tbat the Dutch were in the Medway.

^{page 34 note a} The Middle, a shoal off Foulness, between the West Swin and the East Swin or King's Channel.

^{page 34 note b} Near the mouth of the Thames, off the village of Lee on the Essex side.

^{page 34 note c} Thomas Harman.

^{page 34 note d} Adrian Brackell, the captain of the Dutch man-of-war.

^{page 36 note a} Postmaster-General.

^{page 37 note a} Chuttanuttee, now Calcutta.

^{page 37 note b} Early in 1686 the Company fitted ont an expedition to retaliate on the Nawab of Bengal for past injuries, and to attempt to seize Chittagong. But before the arrival of the forces a premature quarrel with the natives forced the English to abandon Hoogly and retire to Chuttanuttee. In Sept. 1687, a trace was patched up, but the Company was not satisfied. An armament was despatched under command of Heath. The result was the attack on Balasore, as told in this letter, an abortive attempt on Chittagong, and the abandonment of the Company's factories in Bengal.—See Mill's Hist, of British India, book i. chap. r.

^{page 37 note c} Farwana, the licence granted by a viceroy; as distinguished from a firman, granted by a sovereign.

^{page 41 note a} Afterwards Comptroller of the Navy. See Preface.

^{page 41 note b} A slip of the pen for May.

^{page 41 note c} “The Hooke” and “Sherbrook,” nautical English for La Hogue and Cherbourg.

^{page 41 note d} Tourville fought in the great three-decker “Royal Sun,” the largest vessel afloat.

^{page 41 note c} Afterwards captain of the Chester. Died in the West Indies in 1693.

^{page 42 note a} “Carter was the first who broke the French line. He was struck by a splinter of one of his own yard-arms, and fell dying on the deck. He would not let go his sword. ‘Fight the ship,’ were his last words; ‘fight the ship as long as she can swim.’”—Macaulay, Hist. of England, chap, xviii.

^{page 42 note b} Probably related to Admiral Sir John Chicheley.

^{page 43 note a} In the expedition against Cadiz, the Duke of Ormond effected a landing at Rota at the north end of the Bay of Cadiz, on the 15th August, and occupied Puerto de Santa Maria, on the east of the Bay, six days afterwards.

^{page 43 note b} The attack on the shipping in Vigo took place on the 12th October.

^{page 43 note c} Trepassey, in Newfoundland.

^{page 43 note d} This is probably the William Haddock noticed by Charnock, , Biographia Navalis, iv. 41Google Scholar, who died in 1726. He may hare been the son of Richard Haddock, Sir Richard's uncle.

^{page 44 note a} Thomas Willshaw, Commissioner of the Navy and Master of the Trinity House.

^{page 45 note a} On the 26th November.

^{page 45 note b} Fleetwood Emms.

^{page 45 note c} Sir Stafford Fairborne, Vice-Admiral of the Red.

^{page 45 note d} William Kerr. Dismissed the service, in 1708, for joining in a contraband trade with the enemy.

^{page 46 note a} Afterwards knighted and Rear-Admiral. This letter has been printed by Charnock in his Biographia Navalis; but it is worth re-printing.

^{page 46 note b} George, Prince of Hesse-Darmstadt.

^{page 47 note a} Rooke.

^{page 47 note b} Afterwards Sir William Jumper, Commissioner of the Navy.

^{page 48 note a} Kerril or Kerrit Roffey.

^{page 48 note b} Edward Acton, killed in action in 1706.

^{page 49 note a} Afterwards Admiral.

^{page 49 note b} Philip V. of Spain.

^{page 49 note c} Irregulars of the militia of Catalonia.

^{page 50 note a} George Delaval, of the Tilbury.

^{page 52 nore a} Macaulay's “casks of meat which dogs would not touch, and barrels of beer which smelt worse than bilge water.”—Hist. of England, ch. xiv.

^{page 52 note b} This must be a son of Sir Richard's daughter, who married a Mr, Lydell.

^{page 53 note a} Children of another of Sir Richard's daughters, who married John Clarke, of Blake Hall, in Bobbingworth, co. Essex.

^{page 53 note b} No doubt Dr. John Radcliffe.

^{page 53 note c} On the 31st July, when Sir George Byng almost destroyed the Spanish fleet.

^{page 54 note a} Probably William Haddock. See above, p. 43, note.

^{page 54 note b} Captain Barrow Harris, of the Breda.

^{page 54 note c} George Cammock, the Spanish Rear-Admiral, who had taken refuge in Messina. He slipped out in a frigate, which however he had to abandon, and escaped by boat to land. He was an Irishman who had served with distinction in the English navy nnder Queen Anne, but had been dismissed on account of his Jacobite tendencies. He then entered the Spanish service; and it is said that, if the Spanish Admiral had followed his advice, the battle off Cape Passaro might have had a different result.

^{page 55 note a} Thomas Mathews, afterwards Admiral, who commanded the blockading force.