[[240]] Instances are given in Catalogue of Pepysian MSS., i. 179-80.
[[241]] A discussion of the relative merits of the two systems occurs in Hollond, Discourses, p. 154. The substance of the patent of 10 December, 1683 (Naval Precedents, p. 48), which established the new department, is given in Catalogue of Pepysian MSS., pp. 180-2.
[[242]] Pepysian MSS., Admiralty Letters, xv. 250 (26 Oct). See also pp. 219-20, 256-7, 284.
[[243]] Pepysian MSS., Admiralty Letters, xv. 241.
[[244]] See Pepysian MSS., No. 2611, Penn's Collections, p. 95: 'Instructions for the Admiralty, 1647.' These customs were not abrogated, either by the ordinances of the Interregnum or by the statutes of the Restoration.
[[245]] Oppenheim, p. 311.
[[246]] 13 Car. II. c. 9. A summary of the provisions of the Act is given in Catalogue of Pepysian MSS., i. 184.
[[247]] 16 Car. II. c. 5; renewed by 18 & 19 Car. II. c. 12.
[[248]] Calendar of State Papers, Domestic, 1661-2, p. 152.
[[249]] Calendar of State Papers, Domestic, 1663-4, p. 249.