Note 3 — LA PAIX.
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A guardship of the royal navy was in these days kept in Virginian waters. At the moment, it happened, there were two, the Essex Prize, 16 guns, which had been there since the spring of 1698 and was now about to return to England, and the Shoreham, Capt. William Passenger, a larger vessel which was to take her place, and which had arrived Apr. 10, 1700. The Essex Prize was careened at the moment, and not available; Beverley, History of Virginia, p. 94.