Daily entries from the 17th century London diary
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John Hayward
from Paul Brewster on Mon 18 Aug 2003, 11:38pm
Captain Hayward (who is now unkindly put out of the Plymouth to make way for Captain Allen
L&M: “John Hayward had served the Protectorate and had been with Sandwich on both the Baltic and the Dutch voyages of 1659 and 1660. Thomas Allin had been a consistent royalist.”
Per L&M Companion:
A naval associate of Sandwich and one of the most experienced officers never to reach flag rank. A captain from1651, he commanded the ‘Essex’ in the Baltic in 1659 and held 11 commissions between 1660 and his death in action in 1673.