Viertageschlacht
In the same year he then served under Edward Montagu, 1st Earl of Sandwich, as Vice-Admiral of the Blue and after the disgrace of Montagu under the next supreme fleet commander, George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle. He was on detachment with Prince Rupert's Green squadron, when on 11 June 1666 the great Four Days' Battle began, but returned to the main fleet in time to take part on the final day, and in this action when his flotilla was surrounded by that of Vice-Admiral Johan de Liefde he received a wound – being hit first through the cheek and then in the left shoulder by musket balls fired by a sharpshooter when his "Victory" was challenged by De Liefde's flagship, the "Ridderschap van Holland" – of which he died shortly after returning to London.