A LETTER FROM SCOTLAND. GIVING A True Relation of the unhappy Loss OF THE Gloucester-Frigot, Whereof Sir John Berry was Commander. With a particular Account of the Persons of Quality drowned therein, and the miraculous Escape of His Royal Highness the Duke of York.  
SIR,  
I Shall give you an Account from hence, as I received it from a faithful Hand, of the loss of the Gloucester Frigate, which was thus:  
Sir John Berry Commander of the Gloucester Frigate, having received on Board the said Ship His Royal Highness in Margaret Road, in order to his Voyage for Scotland, set Sail from thence with a fair Wind, the Wether continuing very Fair, attended by the Ruby, Happy Return, the Dartmouth, and Pearl Frigates, with several Yatches, and several Persons of great Quality, both of England and Scotland, attending His Royal Highness on the Seventh Instant: At Night they came about 16 Leagues off the Mouth of the Humber, about which place lies a Sand called the Lemon-Oar, and whether by the unskilfulness, or wretched neglect of the Pilot, God knows the aforesaid Ship in which His Royal Highness was, and many other Persons of Quality, run on Ground upon the said Sands, about Ten of the Clock at Night; but it pleasing God that the Wether proving Fair and not Stormy, that the Ship did not presently Burst, nor did not immediately Sink, but lay some hours ere She Sank; so that the Duke, and some others, as many as the Long Boat could hold, had time to escape the Danger and ventured to Sea, and got safe aboard on one of the Yatches, but for the rest remaining on board, the Ship foundering before any Boats could come to their Assistance, all perished, among whom was the Lord Roxborow, the Lord O Bryan, the Lord Hollis, Lord Hume, Lord Dowglass, Sir Christopher Musgrave, Sir James Hyde, Mr. Clifton, and an English Lady, whose name we cannot as yet learn; all the Duke's Cooks but one, all his Footmen, and all the rest of his Servants, Sir Charles' Scarborow was miraculously saved (as we suppose) on some piece of the Ship. The Captain, Sir John Berry, was also lost with his Brother, Captain Berry, and several others who accompanied him: There was in all to the number of three hundred and three Persons, and odd, of which but sixty were saved. The Duke is since safely here to the Joy of his Duchess, and others who have been to Congratulate his Escape from so great Danger: His Royal Highness is very sensible, and extremely troubled at the loss of so many Noble Persons, and others, and of so gallant a Ship. The Pilot is secured in Edinborow. This is all at present, our late Insurrection being fully quieted. I am etc.   

London, Printed for John Morice. 1682.