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AYSCUE (erroneously See also:ASKEW or AYSCOUCU), See also:SIR See also:GEORGE (d. 1671)  , See also:British See also:admiral, came of an old See also:Lincolnshire See also:family . Beyond the fact that he was knighted by See also:Charles I., nothing is known of his career until in 1646 he received a See also:naval command . Through the latter years of the first See also:civil See also:war, See also:Ayscue seems to have acted as one of the See also:senior See also:officers of the See also:fleet . In 1648, when See also:Sir See also:William See also:Batten went over to See also:Holland with a portion of his See also:squadron, Ayscue's See also:influence kept a large See also:part of the fleet loyal to the See also:Parliament, and in See also:reward for this service he was appointed the following See also:year admiral of the Irish Seas . For his conduct at the See also:relief of See also:Dublin he received the thanks of Parliament, and in 1651 he was employed under See also:Blake in the operations for the reduction of Scilly . He was next sent to the See also:West Indies in See also:charge of a squadron destined for the See also:conquest of Barbadoes and the other islands still under royalist See also:control . This task successfully accomplished, he returned to take part in the first Dutch War . In this he played a prominent part, but the in-decisive See also:battle off See also:Plymouth (See also:August 16th, 1652) cost him his command, though an See also:annuity was assigned him . For some years Sir See also:George Ayscue lived in retirement, but the later years of the See also:Commonwealth he spent in See also:Sweden, See also:Cromwell having despatched him thither as naval adviser . At the Restoration he returned, and became one of the commissioners of the See also:navy, but on the outbreak of the second Dutch War in 1664 he once more hoisted his See also:flag as See also:rear-admiral of the See also:Blue, and took part in the battle of See also:Lowestoft (See also:June 3rd, 1665) . In the See also:great Four Days' Battle (June 11th-14th, 1666) he served with Monck as admiral of the See also:White . His See also:flagship, the " See also:Prince Royal," was taken on the third See also:day, and he himself remained a prisoner in Holland till the See also:peace .

It seems doubtful whether he ever again flew his flag at See also:

sea, and the date of his See also:death is supposed to be 1671 . See also:Lely's portrait of Sir George Ayscue is in the Painted See also:Hall at See also:Greenwich .

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