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be clearly defined; and Charles was entirely satisfied with 

 the article. 1 



Notwithstanding Temple's satisfaction as to the article 

 on the flag, it did not end disputes on the subject. In the 

 year in which the treaty was concluded, and in the year 

 following, several episodes occurred. One of them concerned 

 personages no less eminent than the English ambassadors 

 who had been at Cologne, and it formed a practical commen- 

 tary on the fruitless negotiations in which they had been 

 engaged. Sir Leoline Jenkins and Sir Joseph Williamson 

 did not return until after the conclusion of peace, and when 

 the king's yacht, the Cleveland, which had been sent to 

 bring them over, was lying at anchor off the Briel, with 

 Sir Leoline on board, a yacht of the States passed between 

 it and the shore without striking its flag or firing any guns. 

 When a message was sent from the Cleveland to the com- 

 mander of the yacht, who was ashore, telling him he should 

 have struck his flag, he only shrugged his shoulders and 

 said he had the States' ambassadors bound for England aboard. 



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The Cleveland then weighed anchor and went about a league 

 seawards, where the Dutch yacht and a man-of-war were 

 lying. Again no flag was lowered to the king's yacht, 

 and the English captain asked Jenkins what he should do. 

 Jenkins adduced the case of Tromp's striking to the Earl of 

 Arundel in Goeree Road, and also of Prince Maurice's yacht, 

 which a few days before had struck "to the kitchen-yacht 

 in the canal of Delf-Haven, between the houses." The captain 

 then remembered that the Dutch had struck to him in that 

 very place as he passed up to Rotterdam, and he proceeded 

 to take vigorous measures to compel the "duty." A shot 

 was fired "under the forefoot" of the States' man-of-war, 

 and after a "convenient" interval another over his poop, 

 and then a third between his masts. This brought a boat 

 from the man-of-war to say that the States' ambassadors 

 were "much astonished" at the shots being fired, and that 

 they would not strike, as they were within their own ports. 

 But when Sir Leoline Jenkins sent a formal request to Van 

 Beuningen, one of the Dutch ambassadors, the man-of-war 



1 Temple to the Duke of Ormonde, Oct. 1673. The same to the Duke of 

 Florence, llth Feb. 1674. Works, ii. 91 ; iv. 19. 



