A true relation of the late great sea fight as it was sent in a letter to his excellency the Lord General Cromvvell, from Gen. Blake and Gen. Monck. Wherein is a list of what Dutch ships were taken and sunk, with the number of prisoners. Likewise the number of what men were slain and wounded on our side. Blake, Robert, 1599-1657. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A76809 of text R207039 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason E699_5). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). 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A76809) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 118377) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 108:E699[5]) A true relation of the late great sea fight as it was sent in a letter to his excellency the Lord General Cromvvell, from Gen. Blake and Gen. Monck. Wherein is a list of what Dutch ships were taken and sunk, with the number of prisoners. Likewise the number of what men were slain and wounded on our side. Blake, Robert, 1599-1657. Albemarle, George Monck, Duke of, 1608-1670. [2], 6 p. Printed by Henry Hills, and are to [sic] sold at his house in Py-Corner, and by Thomas Brewster at the three Bibles in Pauls Church-yard, London, : 1653. Annotation on Thomason copy: "June 7th". Reproduction of the original in the British Library. Wing has "to be sold" in imprint. eng Anglo-Dutch War, 1652-1654 -- Early works to 1800. Naval battles -- England -- Early works to 1800. A76809 R207039 (Thomason E699_5). civilwar no A true relation of the late great sea fight: as it was sent in a letter to his excellency the Lord General Cromvvell, from Gen. Blake and G Blake, Robert 1653 551 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2007-06 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2007-06 Aptara Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2007-08 Robyn Anspach Sampled and proofread 2007-08 Robyn Anspach Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion A TRUE RELATION Of the late Great SEA FIGHT As it was sent in a Letter to his EXCELLENCY THE LORD GENERAL Cromvvell , From Gen. BLAKE and Gen. MONCK . Wherein is a List of what Dutch Ships were taken and Sunk , with the number of Prisoners . Likewise the number of what men were slain and wounded on our side . LONDON , Printed by Henry Hills , and are to sold at his house in Py-Corner , and by Thomas Brewster at the three Bibles in Pauls Church-yard , 1653. FOR HIS EXCELLENCY THE Lord Generall CROMWELL . May it please your Excellency , YOUR Lordships of the second instant , with the inclosed Intelligence , we this day received , and , according to your Excellencies apprehensions thereon , we have engaged with the Dutch Fleet ; A brief accompt of the first daies action we have already sent unto your Lordship ; The next day , being the third instant , we did what we could to re-ingage them , and having the wind ( which was but little ) about Noon we came within shot ; After four houres dispute with them , or thereabouts , they endeavoured what they could to get away from us ; but having then a pretty fresh gale of wind , we pressed so hard upon them , that we sunk and took many of them , as appears by the inclosed List , and do suppose we should have destroyed most of them , but that it grew dark , and being off of Ostend among the sands , we durst not be to bold , especially with the great Ships ; So that it was thought fit we should Anchor all night , which we accordingly did about ten of the Clock . This Morning some of our Ships descryed the Enemy again a farre off , steering toward the Willings ; Whereupon a Councell of War being called , it was resolved we should forthwith set fail with the whole Fleet towards the VVillings , so farre as with safety we might , and so to range along the Coast till we came to the Texell ( the better to improve the present Victory the Lord hath given unto us ) unlesse we shall see cause to divert our course . VVe shall not further trouble your Lordship , but subscribe our selves From on board the Resolution at Sea off of Ostend North East , June 4. 1653. Your Excellencies most humble Servants , Robert Blake , George Monck . A List of the Dutch Ships taken and sunk , with the number of Prisoners ; Likewise the number of men slain , and wounded in our own Fleet , viz. On Thursday . Four or five Dutch Ships sunk . On Friday . Dutch Prisoners 1350. Whereof six Captains . Dutch Ships taken , 11. Sunk , six . Water Hoys taken , two . Dutch Ships blownup amongst their own Fleet , two . Sunk by that Disaster , one . Men slain in our own Fleet , 126. Whereof one Captain . Wounded , 236. Not one Ship lost on our part . FINIS .