Memoirs of Samuel Pepys, Esq. F. R. S - Secretary to the Admiralty in the Reigns of Charles II. And James II. Comprising His Diary From 1659 to 1669, Deciphered by the Hon. Smith, A. B. From the Original Short Hand Ms. In the Pepysian ... #266444

August lst. Walked over the Park with Sir W. Coventry, who I clearly see is not thoroughly pleased with the late management of the fight, nor with any thing that the Generall's do only is glad to hear that De Ruyter is out of fa vour, and that this fight hath cost them 5000 men, as they themselves do report. And it is a strange thing, as he observes, how now and then the slaughter runs on one hand there being 5000 killed on theirs, and not above 400 500 killed and wounded on ours, and as many flag-officers on theirs as ordinary captains in ours.