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" Down to Gravesend, where I find the duke of Albemarle just come, with a great many idle lords and gentlemen, with their pistols and fooleries ; and the bulwark not able to have stood half an hour had they come up ; but the Dutch are fallen down from the... "
Handbook for Travellers in Kent ... - Page 91
by John Murray (Firm) - 1877 - 276 pages
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The Westminster Review, Volume 4

1825 - 542 pages
...consider how much the king suffers." " Down to Gravesend, where I find the duke of Albeinarle just coine with a great many idle lords and gentlemen, with their...to have stood half an hour, had the Dutch come up." So much for the king and duke's precautions, " to entrench and fortify themselves."— " Brouncker...
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The History of the Town of Gravesend in the County of Kent, and of the Port ...

Robert Peirce Cruden - 1843 - 622 pages
...duted llth June, in the supplement. " June 10. Down to Gravesend, where I found the Duke of Albemarle just come, with a great many idle Lords and Gentlemen,...the bulwark not able to have stood half an hour, had they" (the Dutch) " come up ; they are fallen down from the Hope and Shellhaven, as low as Sheerness,...
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Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys, the diary deciphered by ..., Volume 3

Samuel [collections] Pepys - 1854 - 498 pages
...the constable of the town, whose wife beat him. Down to Gravesend, where I find the Duke of Albemarle just come, with a great many idle lords and gentlemen, with their pistols and fooleries ; and the bulwark2 not able to have stood half an hour had they come up ; but the Dutch are fallen down from...
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A class-book of English prose, with biogr. notices, explanatory notes and ...

Robert Demaus - 1859 - 612 pages
...service always in a good posture and credit. Down to Gravesend, where I find the Duke of Albemarle just come, with a great many idle lords and gentlemen,...the bulwark not able to have stood half an hour had they come up ; but the Dutch are fallen down from the Hope and Shellhaven as low as Sheerness, and...
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The Prose and Prose Writers of Britain from Chaucer to Ruskin: With ...

Robert Demaus - 1860 - 580 pages
...service always in a good posture and credit. Down to Gravesend, where I find the Duke of Albemarle just come, with a great many idle lords and gentlemen,...the bulwark not able to have stood half an hour had they come up ; but the Dutch are fallen down from the Hope and Shellhaven as low as Sheerness, and...
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A Handbook for Travellers in Kent and Sussex

John Murray (Firm), Richard J. King - 1863 - 506 pages
...known, scarcely any defence had been organised. " The alarm," says Evelyn (Diary, vol. ii.), " was BO great that it put both country and city into a panic...Sheerness ; after the fall of which the Zealand and Frieseland ships joined De Euyter, whose fleet, now 72 ships of the line, blockaded the mouths of the...
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Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys ...

Samuel Pepys - 1867 - 516 pages
...the constable of the town, whose wife beat him. Down to Gravesend, where I find the Duke of Albemarle just come, with a great many idle lords and gentlemen,...with their pistols and fooleries ; and the bulwark 2 not able to have stood half an hour had they come up ; but the Dutch are fallen down from the Hope...
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A handbook for travellers in Kent and Sussex [by R.J. King].

Richard John King - 1868 - 536 pages
...(See, for ample and curious details, his Diary, vol. iii.) There was, in fact, nothing to prevent Do Euyter from destroying every town and vessel in the...of which the Zealand and Friesland ships joined De Euyter, whose fleet, now 72 ships of the line, blockaded the mouths of the 2 rivers. The attack on...
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Black's Guide to Kent

1874 - 598 pages
...that he found him at Gravesend, on the 10th of June, just come to take order for the defence, " and a great many idle lords and gentlemen, with their...to have stood half an hour had the Dutch come up." Meanwhile all London was in a panic, " everybody was flying, none knew why or whither ;" and the wealthier...
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Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, Esq., F.R.S.: From His ..., Volume 4

Samuel Pepys - 1877 - 522 pages
...have taken under my care to see dispatched, and down to Gravesend, where I find the Duke of Albemarle just come, with a great many idle lords and gentlemen, with their pistols and fooleries ; and the bulwark2 not able to have stood half an hour had they come up ; but the Dutch are fallen down from...
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