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. Written by a Person in Command of the Fleet. Pp. [ii]+22(last blank); small f'cap. 4to; twentieth century half calf, spine lettered in gilt, brown cloth boards, faintly marked; later endpapers, with bookplate of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown and binder's ticket at foot of lower pastedown, a little light foxing and soiling; printed for J. B., London, 1673. Wing E3696; ESTC R7122. *An eyewitness account of some of the last significant actions of the Anglo-Dutch Wars, including the two Battles of Schooneveld, fought off the Dutch coast in June 1673 between the combined English and French fleets, commanded by Prince Rupert of the Rhine, and the fleet of the United Provinces, commanded by Michiel de Ruyter. Despite being the larger fleet, the allies suffered considerable damage and returned to the Thames to refit, but this account ends in praise of Prince Rupert: 'this Excellent Prince; how Gloriously he acquitted himself in all the parts of a great General, and whether it were possible for any Man, under such Circumstances, to do more than he hath done? . . . to bring home the Fleet Royal of England, without the loss of one Man of War, to her own shore in Safety, in despight of all Enemies that designed otherwise by Sea and Land.'.