Rᵈ Haddock.
Pray let me know how yoʳ shipp proves. I have concernd my selfe to get one of yᵉ 4ᵗʰ rates building at Deptford for you, and this day spake to Sʳ Geo. Rooke about it, and formerly to yᵉ other 3 Councill of yᵉ Lord High Admˡˡ. I know she is tender by your reifeing your courses; and twas well hinted in yours to yᵉ Admᵗʸ. I am glad you past by Plymᵒ. Orders went thither some tyme since to cleane you and severall of yoʳ consarts.
Rᵈ H.
On Her Majesty’s Service. To Captⁿ Richard Haddock, Comandʳ of her Majᵗʸ Shipp the Reserve, these present, In yᵉ Downes.
[a] In the expedition against Cadiz, the Duke of Ormond effected a landing at Rota at the north end of the Bay of Cadiz, on the 15th August, and occupied Puerto de Santa Maria, on the east of the Bay, six days afterwards.
[] The attack on the shipping in Vigo took place on the 12th October.
[c] Trepassey, in Newfoundland.
[d] This is probably the William Haddock noticed by Charnock, Biographia Navalis, iv. 44, who died in 1726. He may have been the son of Richard Haddock, Sir Richard’s uncle.
[e] Thomas Willshaw, Commissioner of the Navy and Master of the Trinity House.