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Phips located a valuable wreck in February 1687 and returned to England with treasure valued at over £200,000, which gained him approbation and a knighthood. After this success, Narborough decided to lead a follow-up expedition in the following year. Returning to the wreck, the English found it had been discovered by others. They recovered only about £10,000 of treasure before Narborough fell ill and died at sea in May 1688.
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into the bay. Despite claiming to be in distress and in need of provisions the Spanish refused to give provisions given that the crews seemed to be in healthy condition and Narborough's true intentions being unclear to them. Narborough then unexpectedly made the decision to leave, and his ship departed Corral Bay on 31 December. The four English hostages and a man known as
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on late December 1670. There the expedition established contact with the Spanish garrison whose commanders were highly suspicious of Narborough's intentions despite England being at peace with Spain. The Spanish demanded and received four English hostages in exchange for allowing Narborough's ship
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and others in the venture. Phips's first expedition, made in 1682 and funded by New England investors, was marginally successful. His second, in 1683–1685, was less successful, but gained valuable leads, and Narborough helped him to raise funds for a third expedition. Departing in September 1686,
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where they were subject to lengthy interrogations, as the Spanish struggled to find out the goal of Narborough's expedition. Narborough returned home in June 1671 without achieving his original purpose. A narrative of the expedition was published at London in 1694 under the title
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James Herbert Cooke, The Shipwreck of Sir Cloudesley Shovell on the Scilly Islands in 1707, From Original and Contemporary Documents Hitherto Unpublished, Read at a Meeting of the Society of Antiquaries, London, 1 February
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In 1680 Narborough was appointed Commissioner of the Navy, an office he held until his death in 1688. During those years he was a patron to a treasure hunter from
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Macaulay, Thomas Babington. The History of England from the Accession of James II. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co. Vol. I, p. 237.
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family. He married and had two surviving sons and a daughter by Elizabeth Hill, whose father was John Hill, a
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Knowlton church has monuments to Sir John and to his sons. The latter depicts the grounding of the
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The Diary of Henry Teonge Chaplain on Board HM's Ships Assistance, Bristol and Royal Oak 1675-1679
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in 1670–1671. In the 1680s he was involved in the scavenging of wrecked Spanish treasure ships.
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to find wrecked Spanish treasure ships in the Caribbean, and sought for the support of
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to agree to a treaty. An account of the raid appears in the diary of a naval chaplain,
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A genealogical and heraldic history of the extinct and dormant baronetcies of England
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Knowlton Court passed to Narborough's daughter Elizabeth, who had married
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An Account of several late Voyages and Discoveries to the South and North
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After the peace, he was chosen to conduct a secretive voyage in the
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
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www.kenthistoryforum.co.uk – The legacy of Sir Cloudsley Shovel
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in May 1672, after the death in action of his superior, Sir
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Narborough's memorial is a marble plaque inside the church
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Sir John suppressing Barbary pirates 14–24 January 1676
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in October of the following year. In 1670 he visited
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Commissioner of the Navy, treasure hunting and death
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John Narbrough
Knowlton, Kent
51°14′1″N 1°16′1″E / 51.23361°N 1.26694°E / 51.23361; 1.26694
Royal Navy

Battle of Sole Bay
Admiral
naval
commander
Anglo-Dutch Wars
Barbary Coast
Valdivia
Patagonia
Norfolk
Commissioner of the Navy
Sir Cloudesley Shovell
Christopher Myngs
Cloudesley Shovell
English expedition to Valdivia

South Seas
Deptford
Straits of Magellan
Port Desire
Argentina
Kingdom of England
heavily fortified
Corral Bay
Carlos Enriques
Lima

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