tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401830411147364284.post6639358448091869391..comments2024-03-18T19:05:39.072-07:00Comments on Morphosis: QuietAdam Robertshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15803399373213872690noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401830411147364284.post-58771588958296200532013-04-28T14:18:17.788-07:002013-04-28T14:18:17.788-07:00Pepys wrote in his diary on 2nd June 1666 (O.S.): ...<a href="http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1666/06/02/" rel="nofollow">Pepys wrote in his diary on 2nd June 1666 (O.S.)</a>: "Up, and to the office, where certain newes is brought us of a letter come to the King this morning from the Duke of Albemarle, dated yesterday at eleven o’clock, as they were sailing to the Gunfleete, that they were in sight of the Dutch fleete, and were fitting themselves to fight them; so that they are, ere this, certainly engaged; besides, several do averr they heard the guns all yesterday in the afternoon. This put us at the Board into a tosse. Presently come orders for our sending away to the fleete a recruite of 200 soldiers. So I rose from the table, and to the Victualling office, and thence upon the River among several vessels, to consider of the sending them away; and lastly, down to Greenwich, and there appointed two yachts to be ready for them; and did order the soldiers to march to Blackewall. Having set all things in order against the next flood, I went on shore with Captain Erwin at Greenwich, and into the Parke, and there we could hear the guns from the fleete most plainly."<br /><br />The North Foreland (where the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Days%27_Battle" rel="nofollow">Four Days' Battle</a> was being fought) is about 60 miles from Greenwich Park.Gareth Reeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15405124248006286547noreply@blogger.com