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

[864] Coke MSS., Cal. Hist. MSS., Com. Report, xii, App., pt. i, 41.

[865] Cott. MSS., Julius F., III, ff. 98, 249, 250, 252.

[866] The report of the commissioners will be found in State Papers, Dom. Jas. I, xli; the sworn depositions on which that report was based are preserved in Cott. MSS., Julius F., III. The evidence in question is of value for to-day, and may be instructively compared with the reports of the committee of investigation of 1803-5 on the again astonishing condition of naval administration. It is to be hoped that the Navy Records Society will print the Cottonian MS.

[867] Gardiner, History of England, II, 11.

[868] Gardiner, History of England, III, 200.

[869] State Papers, Dom., clxxxii, 28.

[870] Pipe Office Accounts, 2257, 2259, 2260.

[871] The Commissioners acted by Letters Patent of 12th February 1619. They were Sir Lionel Cranfield, Sir Thos. Weston, Sir John Wolstenholme, Sir Thos. Smith, Nicholas Fortescue, John Osborne, Francis Goston, Richard Sutton, Wm. Pitt, Sir John Coke, Thos. Norreys, and Wm. Burrell.

[872] State Papers, Dom., c and ci, 3.

[873] State Papers, Dom., cli, 35.