TOURS AND ORLEANS

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the Gardens of the Minims, the Jacbins, the Carthusians, and
the Peres de l'Orat.l

Many contrasts ha'es bein betwixt J. O. and I. laboring
to defend presbytery and the procedures of the late tymes.
During my abode heir moneths I attended the Sale de
dance wt Mr. Schovaut as also Mr. le Berche, explaining some
of the institutions to me. John was my Mr. of language.
A part of the tyme that 1 was heir was also the
Admiral of Holland, Obdams Sone, who wt the companions
carried himselfe marvelously proud. He and they feed them-
selfes so up wt the hoop of the victory that they præpared
against the news sould come of the Engleshes being beat a
great heap of punchions of wine wheir wt they intended to
make merry, yea as I was informed to make Loy er run wt win.
But when the news came the Hollanders was beat, that his
father was slain,2 he and his sunk away we know not whither.
That ranconter that happened betuixt him and Sandwichs
Viceadmiral of England sone coming from Italy (which the
Mr. of Ogilvy getting wit of from the Germans came runing
to my chamber and told me) is very remarkable. The first
bruit that came to our ears of that battle was that the
Englishes had lost, the Duc of York was slain. When the
true news came the Hollanders sneered at it, boasting that
they would equippe a better fleet ere a 4 night. The French
added also the pace, vilifieng and extenuating the victory as
much as they could, knowing that it was not their interest nor
concernment that the King of England sould grow to great.
It was fought in the channel eagerly for 3 day es and tho at a
good distance from Calice, yet the noice of their canon mad it
al to shake.

Some weeks that 1 was heir the heat was so great that after-
noon (for then it was greatest) 1 would not have knowen what
to have done. It occasioned alsô several tymes great thunders
and such lightenings that sometymes y e would have thought this
syde of the heavens sometymes that, sometymes al on a fire.

1 Oralvirt.

Admiral Opdam was blown up with his ship in the battle near Lowestoft,
when the Dutch Reet was defeated by the English, commanded by the Duke of
York, 4th June 1665.