Company begins to break; Ormond is bound towards
Caen; for, fair Issabella is gone thither before. The Duke of
Buckingham is come to his Master Stuart, and claims a promise
of being sent into Germany; but he is like to prove but
parcel Ambassador, being glad to take in Wilmot for a partner
in Commission. Sir Ja. Leviston (called Viscount Newburg)
is gone into Holland, and enence (its said) he goes for
Denmark. The Lord Would be Gerard is at Rohan, from
thence bound for Flanders. The little Queen, Jermyn, and
many more have been sick at St. Germans, but now recovered.
The Duke of Vendosm and Carteret are returned by
land towards Bourdeaux.
The Ambassadors of all Princes have attended the King
at Compeigne, except the Dutch, who takes it ill for being
refused Dunkirk.
From Dover, Sept. 18.
The tenth instant, the Holland Fleet under de Witte came
in sight of this Town at the back of the Goodwin. The 11th,
12th, and 13th they plyed to the Westward; the 14th they
lay between Calais and Boloigne. The 15th they came
on this side with five or six Frigats, and give chace to a Sandwich
Pink, but she got safe into the Downs.
The 16th de Witte with about 30. sail came to this side again,
having gotten sight of seven or eight sail comming
from the Westward. They bore up to them, and between
Foulstone and this Town, put the Swan Frigat on shore, and
three Morlaix men laden with linnen cloth, and two or three
small men of this Town most of them ashore. The Mary
Fly-boat, and Brier Frigat got past them to this Town, but
exchanged several shot with them: Thus it pleased God to
preserve them all. De Witte himself came very neer the
shore, and let several broadsides fly at our ships that were
stranded, and Sandgate Castle returned him several guns.
Towards night, he with his stood over to the French Coast
to the rest of the Fleet; and that tyde all our ships got off
without much damage; onely the Swan Frigot got a bulge,
which made her leaky, and is now mending at this place.