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

[594] State Papers, Dom., cxlvi, 97.

[595] Cecil MSS. Cal. No. 846.

[596] The Elizabethans called any ship comparatively low in the water a galleass, or said that she was built ‘galleas fashion,’ irrespective of oars.

[597] Pipe Office Accounts, 2218, 2220, and 2221.

[598] Ibid., 2223.

[599] State Papers, Dom. cclxxvi, 57.

[600] Ibid., ccxxiii, 45.

[601] Ralegh, Invention of Ships.

[602] Pipe Office Accounts, 2232. The distinction between overlop and deck is not always clear. Sometimes overlop appears to mean a deck running the whole length of the ship, as distinguished from a forecastle or poop deck, and at other times a slight lower deck not intended to carry guns. This last became its ultimate meaning, and it is used in this sense in relation to the Defiance and Warspite.

[603] Pipe Office Accounts, 2200.