[[250]] Ib. 1666-7, p. 148.

[[251]] State Papers, Domestic, Charles II, ccxvii. 138.

[[252]] Ib. ccxxxv. 135. See also Calendar of State Papers, Domestic, 1668-9, pp. 171, 303; ib. 1671, pp. 523, 524.

[[253]] Diary. See also the entries for 19 October, 1666, and 25 June, 1667; and p. [45], supra.

[[254]] Pepysian MSS., No. 2867, Naval Precedents, pp. 525-8. The establishment is printed in Catalogue of Pepysian MSS., i. 189-92.

[[255]] Hollond, Discourses, p. 353. Macaulay describes the abuse, but is silent concerning the attempts to remedy it (History of England, i. 148).

[[256]] Pepysian MSS., Admiralty Letters, iii. 367.

[[257]] Pepysian MSS., Admiralty Letters, iv. 233, 243, 246.

[[258]] Ib. ii. 182.

[[259]] Ib. iv. 110.