THE 



NARRATIVE 



OF THE HONOURABLE 



JOHN BYRON. 



THE equipment and deftination 

 of the fquadron fitted out in 

 the year i 740, of which com- 

 modore Anfon had the command, being 

 fufficiently known from the ample and 

 well-penned relation of it under his di- 

 reiion, I fliall recite no particulars that 

 are to be found in that work. But it 

 may be neceffary, for the better under- 

 ftanding the difaftrous fate of the 

 Wager, the fubjeft of the following 

 fheets, to repeat the remark, that a 



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