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Topic: The English Revolution

Vice-Admiral Goodson to General Monck [?] - Sir William Clarke, The Clarke Papers. Selections from the Papers of William Clarke, vol. 3 [1899]

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The Clarke Papers. Selections from the Papers of William Clarke, Secretary to the Council of the Army, 1647-1649, and to General Monck and the Commanders of the Army in Scotland, 1651-1660, ed. C.H. Firth (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1899). 4 vols.

Part of: The Clarke Papers. Selections from the Papers of William Clarke, 4 vols.

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Vice-Admiral Goodson to General Monck [?]

f. 118b.Our French file leaders have march’t the wronge way to gett Dunkirke this yeare. Truly Sir, our present enemy notwithstanding his Indyes is butt poore. As to his plate fleete itt may bee resembled to a great bason and ure in a lottery, where many blankes are drawne before itts gott. As for Flanders itt hath bin a great draine to the Spanish purse, I wish itt may [not] bee soe to England’s.

There is a pretence of the French sitting downe before Dunkirke, or Graveling this yeare: or at least their returne to Mardyke for the making some additionall workes to make itt the more tenable.

W. G.2

[2 ]Vice-Admiral William Goodson v. Cal. State Papers Dom. 1657-58, p. 138.