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Fighting Instructions, 1530-1816

PART V
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Then, numbered 9 to 12, come four 'additional instructions for sailing' by the Duke of York, relating to chasing, and dated April 24, 1665.
[4] Some of these articles are dated even as late as April 27, See in the _Penn Tracts, Sloane MSS._ 3232, f.

33, _infra_, p.

128.
[5] See _post_, p.177.For the despatches, &c., see G.Penn, _Memorials of Penn_, II.

322-333, 344-350.

He also quotes a work published at Amsterdam in 1668 which says: 'Le Comte de Sandwich separa la flotte Hollandaise en deux vers l'une heure du midi.' He explains that by the order for the rear to tack first, Sandwich was leading, forgetting Coventry's despatch (_ibid._ p.


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