Edwᵈ Whitaker.
P.S. This is rite all in a hurry, so yᵗ I hope youle excuse me.
[a] Afterwards knighted and Rear-Admiral. This letter has been printed by Charnock in his Biographia Navalis; but it is worth re-printing.
[] George, Prince of Hesse-Darmstadt.
[c] Rooke.
[d] Afterwards Sir William Jumper, Commissioner of the Navy.
[e] Kerril or Kerrit Roffey.
[f] Edward Acton, killed in action in 1706.