At Gravefend I began my Journalv frot^ 1 
whence we departed 05 the 2d. of ^ri^ i 
about Six of the clock at night, and went 
down into the Hope. 
The 27. being Frj/isJ^ji, we fct fail out of 
the Hope^ and about Nine of the dock at 
night we came to an Anchor in Margaret- 1 
Koad in three fathom and a hal£ water : by i 
the way we paft a States man of war, of j 
500 Tun, caft^ ^^^J * n?onth before upon ; 
thc Goodmiiynhthin^ remaining^fiblc a- 
bbve water but her main mafttop, 16 o 
her men were drowned, the reft faved by i 
Fi flier m,en. 1 
The 2 S. we ^twined into the Downs, \ 
where Captain Clar}{^onc of His Majeflics i 
Captains in the Navy, came aboard of us i 
in the afternoon, and preft two of our ! 
Trumpeters. Here we had good ftore of i 
Flounders from the Fifhermen, new taken 
out of the Sea and living, which being:rea'- ! 
dily gutted, were fry'd while they were { 
warm i me thoughts I never tafte4 of a ; 
d^licatcr Fi(h in all my life before. , 
The Third of May being Ajcinjim \ 
in the afternoon we weighed out of thc'^ 
J-W;^/:, the wind at E. and ran down into ' 
Voikr.B^d^iy and lay by the lee* whilft^ they \ 
fent.,rhe Skiift iflvftt^ (ox one of . the Ma^flers ; 
»iiriei;: by the way we paft Sandmkhinthc ] 
