International records / UK National Archives

WALDINE LAGOE to his "brother KENYON, at the Peele."

DDKE/acc. 7840 HMC/252 | KENYON OF PEEL.HISTORICAL MANUSCRIPTS COMMISSION 14th Report, Appendix P1 IV (1894) 'The Manuscripts of Lord Kenyon'. | Manchester. -- On Thursday night we had the news that the Dutch, with their fleet, were within four miles of Gravesend, and that General Monk and the Lord Craven were gone down to put a stop to them, and secure our great ships that were at Chatham. But this day's post brings news that the Dutch have broken the chain that was put across the Thames and are come past Gravesend, and have taken the Royal Charles, and we have sunk four ships to keep them fr…