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all that the king comraanded them; and they made ready the fnips, and the mariners fpread their fails to the wind, and haftily departed j becaufe the king's command was urgent.

4. Now the fervants of the king of Gaul, hoped to have arrived on thecoaft of Colum- bia, before the fnips of the king of Britain fhould efcape out of the great river Delaware; and if it had been fo, verily the (hips and the hod of Britain, would have been in great jeo- pardy.

5. Howbeit, Henry, chief captain of the hoft of Britain, was told that the king of Gaul was meditating mifchief againfl: him; more- over, he was commanded by the king of Bri- tain to depart from Philadelphia, the chief city of the Provinces; left peradventure, the fervants of the king of Gaul, fhould come up- on them unawares.

6. Then Henry, chief captain of the hoft of Britain, privately commanded the chief men of the hoft to have all things in readinefs.