Memorials of the Professionale Life and Times of Sir William Penn, Knt. Admiral and General of the Fleet; From 1644 to 1670
by Granville Penn (9781150153259)

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1833 Original Publisher: Duncan Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: ' CHAPTER VI. 1656 -- 1660. Interval to the Restoration. 1656. Not long after his release from the Tower, and his dismissal from the service of the Protector, in September 1655, General Penn repaired to his estate in Ireland; where he remained, in communion with his old connexions in Munster, secretly cherishing the royal interest in that kingdom. In this year, 1656, I find no record of him; I shall therefore turn, for a while, to some of his gallant comrades. Sir George Ascue, as we have already seen, was laid aside by the Rump parliament in 1652, after his brave conflict with De Ruyter, in consequence of the favourable terms which he had granted to the king's governor of Barbadoes, the Lord Willoughby of Parham, on the surrender of that island to the parliament's fleet under his command; which terms appeared to betray a secret disposition by no means satisfactory to Cromwell, and to those who were then become the leaders, or rather his instruments, in that fragment of the parliament. Ascue had declined service, under the Protector, and had retired to his country-seat at Ham-Haw, near Weybridge, in thecounty of Surrey.1 " This (said the writer of Lilly's " Almanac for August 16th, 1652) is he that is a " gentleman, lives like a gentleman, and acts the part " of a generous commander in all things." White- lock has recorded an incident of this brave officer in his retirement, during this year, which cannot fail to interest every naval reader, and which will therefore not be out of place in these Memorials. "August 13th, 1656. -- The ambassador of Sweden (Count Bun...

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