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14. And when Henry had put his fotdiers into the Ihips, they failed from thence, and efcaped to the haven where the navy of the king of Britain was anchored.

CHAP. XIV.

Sir William Howe leaves Halifax ^ and is foon followed by his brother^ admiral lord Howe^ with a land force — hidcpendence is declared^^ The battle on Leng-IfJand.

xIlND it came to pafs, about this time, that William^ the chief captain of all the ar- mies of the king of Britain, put his men into the fhips and departed from the country of Nova-Scotia, for he was weary with tarrying at that place;

2. And he came to a certain haven, called In the vernacular tongue Sandy Hook. And It came to pafs, that his brother (who was a chief captain in the navy of the king of Bri- tain) followed after him with the fliips of the