Note 207 — NOTES ON ANNUS MIRABILIS.
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This is taken from the narrative imputed to Harman himself.—See Lives of the Admirals, Vol. II. p. 262. Its authenticity is questioned by Ralph, on account of the lubberly phrases, cordage and crossbeam for slings and yard. But the same circumstances occur in a letter from Alborough, dated June 2d, and published in the London Gazette for June 4th, giving an account of the crippled state in which the Henry had come into that port, and of the part she had sustained in the action. A doggrel poet, on the same occasion, apostrophises
——Brave Harman now, his fiery ordeals past, Submits unto his watery trial last; Whose sober valour shall encrease his glory, And gain new plumes to enrich a future story. On the Declaration of Toleration, and Publication of War.