Excerpt from The Church History of Britain, Vol. 6 of 6: From the Birth of Jesus Christ Until the Year 1648 Share in the restoration, and in persuading his cousin, admiral Edward Mountague. Afterwards earl of Sandwich, to serve his majesty, Charles II. After the restoration he was appointed master of the horse to the queen of Charles II but being dismissed from that post, and going to sea with his kinsman, the earl of Sandwich, he was slain in the attack of the Dutch east-india ships at Bergen in Norway, grd of August, 1665, in the twenty-fifth year of his age. See Collins' Peerage, vol. I. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.