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

[884] Ibid.

[885] State Papers, Dom., lxxxvi, 101.

[886] Ibid., xc, 24.

[887] R. Playfair, The Scourge of Christendom, p. 34.

[888] Monson, Naval Tracts.

[889] State Papers, Dom., cli, 21.

[890] State Papers, Colonial, March 1620.

[891] State Papers, Dom., civ, 65.

[892] England’s Way to Win Wealth, Lond. 1614, and The Trade’s Increase, Lond. 1615.

[893] The Dutch Company is said to have distributed in twenty-one years, ending with 1622, dividends of 30,000,000 florins on a capital of some 6,000,000 florins, (Irving, Commerce of India).