A history of the administration of the Royal Navy and of merchant shipping in relation to the Navy from MDIX to MDCLX, with an introduction treating of the preceding period

by M. Oppenheim

[374] Aug. Off. Bk. No. 315, f. 3.

[375] Letters and Papers, 26th May 1513.

[376] Cott. MSS., App. xviii, f. 10. Undated, but before 1529, when Spert was knighted.

[377] Letters and Papers, iv, 2362.

[378] Ibid., 25th Sept. 1524.

[379] Ibid., 2nd March 1526, and Aug. Office Book, No. 317 Part ii, f. 1.

[380] Letters and Papers, 14th July 1533.

[381] Arundel MSS., 97. On Spert’s monument in the chancel of St Dunstan’s Stepney, he is called ‘comptroller of the navy.’ The designation was not in use until long after his death, in September 1541, and the monument itself is a seventeenth century one.

[382] State Papers (ed. 1830), 8th Jan. 1544-5, and xvi, 441 (old numbering).

[383] Son of Wm. Gonson.