[The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part F. by David Hume]@TWC D-Link bookThe History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part F. CHAPTER LXIV 14/85
The earl of Falmouth, Lord Muskerry, and Mr.Boyle, were killed by one shot at his side, and covered him all over with their brains and gore.
And it is not likely, that, in a pursuit, where even persons of inferior station, and of the most cowardly disposition, acquire courage, a commander should feel his spirits to flag ana should turn from the back of an enemy, whose face he had not been afraid to encounter. * King James, in his Memoirs, gives an account of this affair different from what we meet with in any historian.
He says, that, while he was asleep, Brounker brought orders to Sir John Harman, captain of the ship, to slacken sail.
Sir John remonstrated, but obeyed.
After some time, finding that his falling back was likely to produce confusion in the fleet, he hoisted the sail as before; so that the prince, coming soon after on the quarter deck, and finding all things as he left them, knew nothing of what had passed during his repose.
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