References
- Brandt , G. 1687 . Leven en bedryf van den Heere Michiel de Ruiter 986 Amsterdam
- 1946 . Journals and Narratives of the Third Dutch War 3 – 47 . This was to have been followed by monographs on the Four Days Fight and St James's Fight (1666), on which he was actively engaged at the time of his death. The outstanding English contributions in this field are all by R. C. Anderson, (Navy Records Society, Vol. LXXXVI,; Naval Miscellany, Vol. iv (N.R.S., 1928), pp.; Journal of the first Earl of Sandwich 1659–1665 (N.R.S., 1929), XLVII–LXXI; Journals of Sir Thomas Allin 1660–1678, Vol. II (N.R.S., 1940), pp. xvi–xxxv
- Calendar of ancient records of Dublin 550 – 76 . There was a flourishing Dutch commercial community at Dublin in the first three decades of the seventeenth century, and ‘Mr Wiborn’ may be identical with one of the two Dutch merchants named Wybrants mentioned in J. P. Gilbert, Vol. III (Dublin, 1892), pp. passim.
- Brandt , G. 1933 . Leven 16 (1687), p.; L. Van den Bos, Leven en daden der doorluchtighste zee-helden (Amsterdam, 1676), p. 278; Barthélémy Piélat, La Vie et les actions memorables du Sieur Michel de Ruyter (2 vols., Rouen, 1678), Vol. I, p. 4. It should be noted that although Piélat copied closely from Van den Bos, the English Life of 1677 is much fuller on this point and quite independent of either. The standard modern biography is by P. J. Blok, Michiel Adriansxoon de Ruyter (The Hague, 1928), of which there is a drastically abridged English translation by G. J. Renier
- 1676 . Leven en daden 278 Van den Bos
- Leven en bedryf 989 ‘Hy verstand verscheide taalen, die hy niet in de schoolen, maar ter koopvaardy varende, door lange verkeering in vreemde gewesten, hadt geleerdt, en eenighzins sprak, als Spaansch Portugeesch, Fransch, en inzonderheit Engelsch en Yrsch’ (G. Brandt, p.)
- The only definite date that can be attached to De Ruyter's movements between 1618 and 1631 is that he served as a gunner in the Bergen-op-Zoom campaign of 1622
- Brandt , G. 1687 . Leven en bedryf 987 ; Blok, M. A. de Ruyter, p. 306. I have the impression that Brandt, being a predikant, may have exaggerated De Ruyter's undoubtedly genuine piety
- ‘I am a seaman in my heart, I detest all joys ashore, even in the arms of my wife I hear the masts creak.’
- Memorials of Sir William Penn, Knt. 444 – 2 . Granville Penn, (2 vols., 1833), Vol. I, p.; D. Hannay, Short History of the Royal Navy (2nd ed.), Vol. I, pp. 240
- M.M. 33 – 53 . XL (February 1954), pp., for a biographical sketch of M. H. Tromp, 1598–1653
- Oudendijk , J. K. Johan de Witt en de zeemacht 40 – 8 . (Amsterdam, 1944), passim. For the series of rather Box and Cox promotions in the Dutch Navy see R. C. Anderson, ‘Dutch Flag Officers in 1665–7 and 1672–3’, M.M., Vol. xxiv (1938)
- Wilson , C. Profit and Power. A study of England and the Dutch Wars 90 – 126 . (1957), pp., for a recent reassessment of the causes of this war
- Tanner , J. R. , ed. 12 January 1665 . Diary of Samuel Pepys 12 January , 312 – 13 . (ed. Wheatley), Vol. IV, pp., 315, 360–1. Cf. also Pepys to the Earl of Sandwich, in Further Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, Vol. I, p. 34
- Harlow [ed.] , V. T. 1925 . Coloniz-ing expeditions to the West Indies and Guiana 1623–1667 109 – 10 .
- 1665 . The Routing of De Ruy ter or the Barbadoes Bravery a broadside published at London in
- Colenbrander , H. T. Bescheiden uit vreemde archieven omirent de groote Nederlandsch zeeoorlogen 280 – 2 . (2 vols., The Hague, 1919), Vol. I
- Diary 382 – 3 . (Wheatley), Vol. v
- Blok , P. J. M. A. de Ruyter 275 – 85 .
- Now no. 131, Prins Hendrikkade, and a national museum
- Vernon , J. and Joseph , Williamson Sir . 1925 . “ The Hague, 2/12 February 1671/2, in J. Beresford ” . In The Godfather of Downing Street 259
- Observations upon the United Provinces of the Netherlands 128 (ed. 1676)
- Cal. S.P. Domestic 506 An English friend of the family wrote to the Rev. Thomas Pots at Flushing on the 11 February 1673: ‘I enclose my opinion how your town might be made harmless in these times of calamity. I know you and your father-in-law, De Ruyter, have great estates, and it's more than a hazard that Holland is not gone. It, therefore, in my opinion, concerns you the more to secure what you have in Zealand by timely circumspection’ (1672–1673, p.). If this was an attempt to wean De Ruyter from his allegiance, it failed
- Brandt , G. 1946 . Leven en bedryf 671 (1687), pp., 675. Curiously enough, almost exactly the same words were used of the Duke of York's behaviour in this battle by Captain John Narbrough. Cf. R. C. Anderson [ed.], Journals and Narratives of the Third Dutch War p. 97
- 8 June 1673 . Zeeoorlogen 8 June , 238 – 45 . De Valbelle to Seignelay, in Colenbrander, Vol. II, pp. i Dryden, Secular Masque, p. 40
- 1677 . Life of De Ruy ter 115 . Even Brandt, who criticized this work as being a mixture of fact and fiction, admitted that he could not improve on this summing-up. Cf. Leven en bedryf, p. 989
- Profit and Power 128 Sir William Coventry pointed out that as regards trade rivalry all the natural advantages—‘winds, good ports, and men’—lay with the English. The same thing was true of the strategical situation to a great extent. Cf. C. Wilson
- Of course, some officers, such as Cosmao Kerjulien and Charles Baudin, were the equal of any British they ever met, but the foregoing is true as a broad generalization
- de la Roncière , C. Histoire de la Marine Française 218 – 23 . Vol. v (Paris, 1920), pp.; P. J. Blok, M. A. de Ruyter, pp. 56, 136–7
- Hannay , D. Short History of the Royal Navy 428 I
- Chappell , E. 1935 . Tangier Papers of Samuel Pepys 247 , 314