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From There Go the Ships by George Shirley

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march unmolested to his boats, he would burn the town, and then cut his way through them. The Spanish governor, not wishing the town burnt, gave him what he asked for, and quietly allowed him to march to his boats and embark for the ships. When we were off Cape St. Vincent the Victory, 100, joined us, and arriving at Lisbon we got the prizes ready, and sailed for England. When in the Channel, off Plymouth, had a heavy gale, which caused us to run into Torbay for shelter; but the wind changing we sailed, and saw the prizes safely inside the

 
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Eddystone Lighthouse, under the charge of the master attendant of Plymouth dockyard. We then sailed for Spithead, arrived there, and waited there three days in quarantine, then received orders to convoy a fleet of merchant ships, which had been waiting at Spithead, to the eastward, that is, through the Downs and up the Thames ; but, we had got no farther than St. Helen's Point, Isle of Wight, when orders came to return to the anchorage at Spithead, for news had arrived that the Dutch fleet was out, the French having overrun Holland, and got the Dutch fleet under their power. We remained three days, when the news arrived that Admiral Duncan had defeated the Dutch, and had taken several ships of the line. We then proceeded to Sheerness with our convoy. When off the North Foreland were joined by the Victory, 100, for Chatham, likewise to be laid up in ordinary. We arrived at Sheerness; got out our guns, stores, powder, etc. Whilst laying here the English fleet, under Admiral Duncan, arrived with

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