The Duke much
damped. In his discourse, touching the late fight, and all the
Court talk sadly of it. The Duke did give me several letters he
had received from the fleet, and Sir W. Coventry and Sir W. Pen,
who are gone down thither, for me to pick out some works to be
done for the setting out the fleet again; and so I took them home
with me, and was drawing out an abstract of them till midnight.
And as to news, I do find great reason to think that we are
beaten in every respect, and that we are the losers. The Prince
upon the Galloper, where both the Royall Charles and Royall
Katharine had come twice aground, but got off. The Essex carried
into Holland; the Swiftsure missing (Sir W. Barkeley) ever since
the beginning of the fight. Captains Bacon, Tearne, Wood,
Mootham, Whitty, and Coppin, slayne. The Duke of Albemarle
writes, that he never fought with worse officers in his life, not
above twenty of them behaving themselves like men. Sir William
Clerke lost his leg; and in two days died. The Loyall George,
Seven Oakes, and Swiftsure, are still missing, having never, as
the Generall writes himself, engaged with them.
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