[764] 5 Eliz. c. 5.
[765] State Papers, Dom., cvii, 68.
[766] Ibid., cxlvii, 21, 22.
[767] Ibid., ccl, 33. This paper bears a note by Burghley, ‘Engl. shippes allowed money for ther tonag sȳce 22 Eliz.’ It has been shown that the custom, as a mark of royal approbation, was much older than Elizabeth, but it may have been made a right from about 1580.
[768] Ibid., cl, 96.
[769] State Papers, Dom., ccliv, 33.
[770] Ibid., cclxii, 126.
[771] The Admiralty Court.
[772] State Papers, Dom., cxxxvi, 35. When the Pelican, or as she was afterwards called, the Golden Hind, returned from her famous voyage round the world she was placed in a dock, filled in with earth at Deptford, and remained there as one of the shows of London for nearly a century. There is an estimate for works to the amount of £370 for this purpose (Add. MSS. 9294, f. 68), but it does not appear that this plan, which included a brick wall, roof, etc., was ever fully carried out. In the Navy accounts only £67, 7s 10d for her repairs, £35, 8s 8d for a wall of earth round her, and £14, 13s 4d for preparing the ship for the Queen’s visit are entered.
[773] State Papers, Dom., ccxxxviii, 142.