. The life of Edward Montagu, K. G., first earl of Sandwich (1625-1672). e silentof it (S. P., Dom., cxxiii., f. 41). (b) In the Carte MSS., 79, f. 12, there is a curious diagram which wasfound among Lord Whartons papers. The diagram endeavours to give thecredit of breaking through the Dutch fleet to Rupert, and puts Sandwich in 1665] MY LORDS GALLANTRY 311 LEstrange, and the Newes of June 15 made somereparation.^ The Prince it said, was much damnified in thebattle, her hull, masts and rigging being exceedinglyshattered an-d torn : His Lordship shewing himselfaloft all the while, as unconcerne
. The life of Edward Montagu, K. G., first earl of Sandwich (1625-1672). e silentof it (S. P., Dom., cxxiii., f. 41). (b) In the Carte MSS., 79, f. 12, there is a curious diagram which wasfound among Lord Whartons papers. The diagram endeavours to give thecredit of breaking through the Dutch fleet to Rupert, and puts Sandwich in 1665] MY LORDS GALLANTRY 311 LEstrange, and the Newes of June 15 made somereparation.^ The Prince it said, was much damnified in thebattle, her hull, masts and rigging being exceedinglyshattered an-d torn : His Lordship shewing himselfaloft all the while, as unconcerned as if he had been inhis own Parlour. Yet this tale of gallantry did not cover the workwhich Sandwich had done, and he had a distinctgrievance. Pepys met him on June 23 at a Tangiercommittee—my Lord no doubt, hke the rest, fat andlusty, and ruddy by being in the sun. There, in the rear. The designer has no idea of line tactics, and his formation of thefleet is decidedly medieval. The note is given here in order to demonstratethe length to wrhich a partisan will J}tjJo& o/ ITorJce^ JEcwZe of Sandnichi * Pepyss-Ozary. The Wcifw, Thursday, June 15, 1665 : Hickes to William-son (Cffi/. S. P., Dom., June 10), expresses a general dissatisfaction at themeagreness of the accounts. 312 THE SECOND DUTCH WAR [chap, vii conversation, Sandwich told Pepys how mightystrange it was that the printed relation should givehim no word of honour. After the first pass, he wasin the van all the rest of the day, and his ship hadthirty shots in her hull, and not one whole mast noryard; indeed, the Prince was the most battered shipof the fleet, and Evelyn confirms this, and says thatshe was pierced like a colander.^ Sandwich wasnaturally piqued, and spoke with no little bitternessas one to whom injustice had been done. He criticizednot only Rupert, but Lawson and the Duke, thoughhe stated clearly that the last-named had come to hisrescue at an opportune moment.^ It would be a pity should this cha
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