I Shall give you an Account from hence, as I received it from a faithful Hand, of the loss of the Gloucester Frigot, which was thus:

Sir John Berry Commander of the Gloucester Frigot, ha­ving received on Board the said Ship His Royal Highness in Margaret Road, in order to his Voyage for Scotland, set Sail from thence with a fair Wind, the Weather continuing very Fair, attended by the Ruby, Happy Return, the Dartmouth, and Pearl Frigots, with several Yatches, and several Persons of great Quality, both of Eng­land and Scotland, attending His Royal Highness on the Seventh In­stant: At Night they came about 16 Leagues off the Mouth of the Humber, about which place lies a Sand called the Lemon-Oar, and whether by the unskilfulness, or wretched neglect of the Pilot, God knows the aforesaid Ship in which His Royal Highness was, and many other Persons of Quality, run on Ground upon the said Sands, about Ten of the Clock at Night; but it pleasing God that the Weather proving Fair and not Stormy, that the Ship did not presently Burst, nor did not immediately Sink, but lay some hours e're She Sank; so that the Duke, and some others, as ma­ny as the Long Boat could hold, had time to escape the Danger [Page] and ventur'd to Sea, and got safe aboard on one of the Yatches, but for the rest remaining on board, the Ship foundring before a­ny Boats could come to their Assistance, all perished, among whom was the Lord Roxborow, the Lord O Bryan, the Lord Hol­lis, Lord Hume, Lord Dowglass, Sir Christopher Musgrave, Sir James Hyde, Mr. Clifton, and an English Lady, whose name we cannot as yet learn; all the Dukes Cooks but one, all his Footmen, and all the rest of his Servants, Sir Charles Scarborow was miracu­lously saved (as we suppose) on some piece of the Ship. The Cap­tain, Sir John Berry, was also lost with his Brother, Captain Berry, and several others who accompanied him: There was in all to the number of three hundred and three Persons, and odd, of which but sixty were saved. The Duke is since safely here to the Joy of his Dutchess, and others who have been to Congratulate his Escape from so great Danger: His Royal Highness is very sensible, and ex­treamly troubled at the loss of so many Noble Persons, and others, and of so gallant a Ship. The Pilot is secured in Edinborow. This is all at present, our late Insurrection being fully quieted. I am &c.