Anti Pirate Squadron
By our letters of the 27th of this month we gave you directions to send two of the ships under your command to guard and defend the fisherman of Great Yarmouth from the Dunkirkers, Frenchman, and other pirates.
And forasmuch as we have received advertisement that the Dunkirkers do much infest those Northern parts, having landed and committed much spoil in Shetland and thereabout, We do hereby further will and require you to aid the ships of the United Provinces of the Low Countries, in the best manner that you shall be able, against the Dunkirkers, and for that purpose to take with you, for your assistance, by virtue of these our letters, all such men of war being subjects of his Majestie as you shall meet, and in particular those four shipps, which were appointed to guard the fishers to Ireland and Westmonie ; And if you meet with Sir Sackvill Trevor, whom we conceive you may find about those parts, you are also to aid and assist him with all your force, and to acquaint him with these our directions, and with the affronts and outrages done by the aforesaid Dunkirkers upon those Northern parts ;
And you are likewise to hold a very good and strict intelligence with him, to the end that you may be more ready upon all occasions to help each other for the defence of the coast, and of his Majestie’s subjects, and for the defeating of the common enemy.
And so expecting your careful performance of these our directions, we bid you &c., &c.
1627
