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    believed he will be Necessitated to Conclude a Peace (wch God Lib. H. D.

    grant may be) for the honour of our King and the generall

    Good of Christendome.

      You may be Sure your Express should not want my Pro

    tection coming on such Emergency but her luckey Arrivall

    here for the best and most satisfactory Accot of Affairs I

    possibly could give you as I have here done causeth her dis

    patch hence this day to you, so that she could need no

    ffriendship of mine, wch I should readily afford her or any

    other Service in my Power for the Safety and preservation of

    any of his Mats Colony's being Sr

                   Yor very humble Servant

    Antigua 25th Aprll 1697.   Chr: Codrington

      Copy of a lettr to the Governr of Bermuda.

      A List of the Ships of

    Warr belonging to his Mats

    West India Squadron

                         List

    Rates.   Ships Names. Men.   Guns.    Connanders Names.

     3    Cambridge  398   80    Vice Admiral Nevil

     3    Bredah     370   70    Reere Admll Mees

     3    Ruport     312   64    Capt Dilkes

     4    Pembrooke  278   60    Capt Hootley

     4    Sunderland 278   60    Capt Beiwood.

     4    Warwick    197   50    Capt Tollett

     4    Bristoll   197   50    Capt Elliott

     4    Blackwall  197   50    Capt Lutcott

     4    Rubie      197   52    Capt Holmes.

     4    Trydant    236   52    Capt Griffith

     4    Lincoins   197   50    Capt Dyer.

     5    Godspert   150   30    Capt Greenhill

     4    Colchester 197   50    Capt Julias

     4    New Castle 236   52    Capt Reeves

     5    Virgins Prize115 32    Capt Spann

     5    Scarborough115   32    Capt Short

     5    Dolphin    115   32    Capt Carter.

          Blaze                  Capt Wooden

     5    Lightningffireships

     5    Flame                  Capt Moore.

     6    Bideford    95   24    Capt Thacker

          Roe Ketch.

    Rates.   Ships Names. Men.   Guns.                       p. 103

     3    Leaden     325   64

     3    Loo 350 64 Dutch

     3    Utrich     325  64

     3    Hollander  375   72