Gluckstads to wait for them, departed with them
out of the River; so that it is thought they are all
carried into Holland, and will be examined there
it being suspected that a great many of them are
bound for England. Although this City did busle
a little to maintain the Neutrality of this River,
yet have the Capers and men of War free liberty
to goe and come upon the same at their own
pleasure, being likewise permitted and suffered
to go out with the Merchant-men the very same
Tide, whereas at other places they are bound to
stay 2, or at least one Tide after their departure.
Here follow some Passages betwixt the Earl of Glencarn,
and one Captain Hill, a commander of ours
in Scotland.
For my honoured Friend, Captain John Hill, Governor
of the castle of Badgenoth.
SIR,
I Have seen a Letter of yours directed to the
Gentlemen of Badgenoth, when you have expressed
so much fidelity to your unjust Masters
from whom you are trusted, that it makes me
conceive, if those principles of yours were rightly
founded upon the warrantable grounds of Legality,
you might yet redeem your former failings,
and those principles of Honor and Vertue
which now are darkned in you being out of
their true Channel may shine eminently, when
unclouded, from under those fatall wayes and
snares wherin many galant spirits in this Age are
insnared. Thus much I have conceived it fit to
show you, that I might undeceive you in some
Opinions, upon which I find you ground your