...1667:— ' Mr. Wilson, who is come from Chatham last night, tells me that he himself, I think he said, did hear many Englishmen on board the Dutch ships...fight for tickets, now we fight for dollars.'' And Mr. Lewes, who was present at this fellow's discourse to me, did tell me that he is told that when...

...exhibit their wonted readiness to fight. It was even reported to Pepys, by a gentleman who was present, " that he himself did hear many Englishmen, on board...fight for dollars! and did ask how such and such a cue did, and would commend themselves to them — which is a sad consideration." Reinforcements arrived...

...the Navy Board says, that he was told by Mr. Wilson who came to him from Chatham, that he had heard many Englishmen on board the Dutch ships, speaking...heretofore fight for tickets, now we fight for dollars."! This view of the case is corroborated by the following vote of the House of Commons, upon a Report...

...exhibit their wonted readiness to fight. It was even reported to Pepys, by a gentleman who was present, " that he himself did hear many Englishmen, on board...dollars! and did ask how such and such a one did, and v- >uld commend themselves to them — which is a sad consideration." Reinforcements arrived from Portsmouth...

...shot in any of the ships. " I did hear," says Pepys, the secretary of the Admiralty, " that there were many Englishmen on board the Dutch ships speaking...heretofore fight for tickets, — now, we fight for dollars ! " If De Ruyter had made for London at once, he might have burned all the shipping in the river ;...

...alarmed in the previous June, when the English deserters on board the Dutch ships were reported to say, "We did heretofore fight for tickets, now we fight for dollars ;" and when, in the streets of Wapping, the seamen's wives were crying up and down, " This comes of your not...

...to 1603, 3 an d all readers are familiar 1 The "Englishmen on board the Dutch ships" were heard to say, "We did heretofore fight for tickets; now we fight for dollars !"—" Diary," June 14, 1667. 2 "Diary," Oct. 20, 1666. with Macaulay's remarks on the same subject....

...to fire them. But that that he tells me of worst consequence is, that he himself (I think he said) did hear many Englishmen on board the Dutch ships...say, " We did heretofore fight for tickets ; now we tight for dollars ! " and did ask how such and such a one did, .and would commend themselves to them...

...states that when the Dutch fieet came up the Thames Englishmen on board the Dutch ships were heard to say, " We did heretofore fight for tickets, now we fight for dollars." " Diary," June 14th, 1667. » " State Papers, Domestic, Charles II.," Vol. L., No. 6. 26 " Cal. State...

...Cal. SP Dom. 1667, p. 323. * When the Dutch came up the Medway, an eye-witness told Pepys that he ' did hear many Englishmen on board the Dutch ships...heretofore fight for tickets ; now we fight for dollars " (Diary, vi. 366, 14 June, 1667). years, and when the story is taken up in 1673 by the official correspondence...