772 APPENDIX N 



Tromp's letter to the States-General, is given by Tideman, as follows, 

 from Lias Admiraliteit : JBijvoegsel bij Tromps brief aan H. Ho. Mo. 

 uit Ostende d. d. 10 Juni 1652. 



Y r Letter of the second of June 1652 stilo novo, brought by 

 yo r Messenger, was read by mee not without much wonder that you 

 stiling yo r selfe a person off honor should insert therin toe great 

 mistakes after yo r seeking out the ffleet of the Parliament of the 

 Comonwealth of England instead of performing those usuall respects 

 which off right belong unto them and which yo r selve have often done, 

 you were pleased to beginn acts off hostility which you call yo r owne 

 defence against the commonwealth, without the least provocation on 

 the part of their servants thus assaulted by you, and at a time when 

 yo r Superiours, and their Ambassadors with the Parlyament were in 

 a Treaty and desire of friendshipp with the Comonwealth of England, 

 but that God in whome wee trust, having defeated your purposes of 

 our destruction and some off yo r ships taken, you thincke fitt to 

 demaund the same off us as if yo r former accord had been as you call 

 it but a salutation and when that fayled, you would second yo r high 

 affronts by yo r paper to which I doe not thincke fitt to returne any 

 other Answere, But that I presume you will find the Parlyament 

 sensible of these greate Iniuries and of the Losse off the innocent 

 bloud of their Countrymen, And you will find likewise ready to obey 

 their comandts, 



Yo r humble Servant, 



KOB: BLAKE. 

 DOWNKS, 29th May 1652. 



APPENDIX N. 

 (P. 461.) 



CONCESSION TO BRUGES TO FISH IN THE BRITISH SEAS. 1 



(State Papers King's Letter Book, 1664-1670. Foreign Entry Book. 

 Vol. 174, p. 119.) 



CAROLVS &c. Omnibus ad quos prsesentes literal pervenerint vel ullo 

 modo spectaverint salutem. Cum in virtutum albo longe Princeps 

 audiat liberalitas, quippe qu93 non tantiim beneficia sed ipsam etiam 



1 Differences found in copy, State Papers, Doin., Chas. II., Vol. 839, p. 589, are 

 shown in brackets. 



