[[31]] Naval Tracts, iv. 141.
[[32]] History of England (2 vols. Longman, 1880), ii. 218.
[[33]] Pepysian MSS., Admiralty Letters, xii. 71. We also find him desiring 'for his own satisfaction and use to have an account of the just rake of all the upright-stemmed ships in his royal navy, and the present seat of the step of each main-mast' (ib. xi. 200); and his pocket-book in the Pepysian Library (MSS. No. 488) contains a number of facts about the navy. For his interest in inventions see Admiralty Letters, xii. 91 and xiii. 23.
[[34]] Pepysian MSS. No. 2866, Naval Minutes, p. 175.
[[35]] Calendar of State Papers, Domestic, 1667-8, p. xxxvi; cf. also Diary, 8 July, 1668 ('I to the Duke of York to attend him about the business of the Office; and find him mighty free to me, and how he is concerned to mend things in the Navy himself, and not leave it to other people').
[[36]] Dictionary of National Biography, ix. 208.
[[37]] Diary, 30 October, 1662.
[[38]] Ib. 12 April, 1667.
[[39]] Calendar of State Papers, Domestic, 1631-3, p. 546.
[[40]] State Papers, Domestic, Charles II, i. 153.