328), which tells how by that time the duke had taken Sandwich's place and was leading the line himself, and that it was he, not Sandwich, who led the movement upon Opdam's ship in the centre of the Dutch line.
[6] Charnock, _Biographia Navalis_, i.

65.
[7] Pepys, it must be said, persuaded himself that this order was suggested and approved by the admirals.

He traced it to Spragge's desire to get away with his chief on a separate command.

Pepys however was clearly not sure about it, and he almost certainly would have been if the Duke of York was really innocent of the blunder.

The truth probably can never be known.
[8] Vice-Admiral Jordan to Penn, June 5, _Memorials of Penn_, II.