Background - continued
8/5 ... This afternoon ... the aforesaid two English ships Discouvry and The Rising Eagle raised anchor for Europe, as also did the Danish ship Fredericus Quartus, but this last reanchored at the mouth of the bay, and returned to the roads again in the afternoon, apparently ... to await her companion Quintus ... towards evening the Gend also set sail ... for Batavia.
2/6 ... came the English warship Kingfisher ... war would shortly be declared ... she and her 8 consorts bound for St. Helena to escort the English return-ships...
26/7 ... arrived the ship Vosmaar... sailed from Plymouth on April 26 last after repairing there from January 12 to that date ... news that His Majesty of Great Britain had retired to rest in the Lord on March 19, and that Princess Anna had on that same day been proclaimed Queen...
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