Background - continued
30/9/1683 ... the ships lying here ... sailed ... we still await the flute* Langewyck which sailed with them from Texel on May 9, and the Huys te Neck ...
22/11 ... the English ship Metsenburgh [request for water and to buy refreshing, action as above 31/5] ... shortly before her departure from England another ploth (as they call it) against the King was discovered [Monmouth]
23/11 ... the ship Europa ... anchored about ten o'clock ...